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CODY ANDERSON, KI4FUV, NAMED RECIPIENT OF THE 25TH AMATEUR
RADIO NEWSLINE "YOUNG HAM OF THE YEAR" AWARD


Cody Anderson, KI4FUV, A 17 year old radio amateur from Harriman,
Tennessee, whose quick thinking likely saved the life of a downed
runner in a 2009 marathon, has been named as the 2010 Amateur Radio
Newsline Young Ham of the Year. This marks the 25th anniversary of
the Young Ham of the Year Award program.

Cody is the son of Benny Anderson and Jane Ann Edwards. He is an
honors graduate of Rockwood High School in nearby Rockwood, Tennessee.

At age 11, Cody became interested in radio communications after hearing
a VHF ham QSO on a scanner. He was encouraged by his grandparents and
stepfather to pursue this interest, and was directed to an Oak Ridge,
Tennessee club where he first tested for his Technician ticket in June
2004. He upgraded to General in June 2007 at the Buck Toms Scout Camp
run by the Great Smoky Mountain Council.

Since his earliest days as ham, Cody has been an ambassador of and a
mentor within amateur radio, and has used it in public service most of
his teen years. Phillip Newman, KE4LSH, president of the Roane County
Amateur Radio Club, based about 30 miles west of Knoxville, nominated
Cody for the award. He says that Cody serves as Vice President of the
club as well as Net Manager and Webmaster for the club's cyberspace
home located at www.KE4RX.org.

"I'm really involved with the ARES portion of it," Cody says. "ARES is
really strong here within Roane County.

"I would be more active on HF, although I just don't have a way to get
an HF antenna up. I'm pretty active on 2-meters on the local club
repeater."

Cody's nomination rose to the top of the Young Ham of the Year Award
committee's nominee list because of a life-changing event which
occurred in this young ham's life.

It was May 30, 2009 and Cody says he was manning a checkpoint at the
"Run for the Child" event in Roane County. Cody recalls that it was
about 20 or 25 minutes into the race when a runner suddenly went down:

"One of the runners had went past me and I noticed he fell. I waited
just a second or two, you know, to see if he got back up. Maybe he
just tripped.

"I noticed he didn't get back up, said Cody. So I went over to him and
by the time I got to him he had quit breathing and went into cardiac
arrest.

"After I radioed it in, me and another one of the runners that had
stopped started CPR."

Cody says he had completed that CPR training through the club just
months earlier and put his knowledge to work, doing mouth-to-mouth
resuscitation while the runner did the chest compressions.

Cody recalls it all happened so fast and he just reacted instinctively.

"You know it's a fairly short race and the checkpoint I was working at
was one of the earlier ones," Cody says. "I actually got done before
the race was over. And, I went back and as I got back to the command
post, I heard over the public safety radio they were bringing in a
helicopter and flying him out to another hospital."

Cody says the man survived and although his heroic actions got some
attention, the experience really didn't change him.

"I don't think that fazed me at all because I believed I was just doing
what was right and I wasn't in it for the recognition," Cody recalls.

In addition to public service events like the "Run for the Child"
marathon, Cody has also responded to ARES activations for numerous
shelter openings in the Roane County area. He has also helped provide
emergency communications during such disasters as the Tennessee Valley
Authority Ash Spill that gained national attention in 2008.

Cody has been helping the Radio Club of Knoxville teach two Scouting
merit badges offered each summer at Camp Buck Toms:

"They get two merit badges - they get the Radio and Electronics - and
we help them build a TenTec short-wave receiver kit and help them
understand how it works, what the components do," Cody says. "We let
them operate the radios if they want to."

Cody has also assisted with Information Technology projects for his
radio club and ARES group. This includes a link to a D-Star gateway
during ARRL Field Day and during local events. It is also available
to prepare for the use of digital communications in a real emergency.

Cody is heading on to Roan State Community College this fall where he's
planning to get some core courses completed. He says he's then
planning to enroll at Tennessee Tech where he'll major in computer
science.

As to his future in ham radio, Cody says there's always room for that:

"I hope to stay as active as I am now or become more active," Cody
says. "Tennessee Tech actually has a radio club.

"I believe that ham radio is what's helped me learn a lot of my
technical knowledge now and even computer skills and things like that,
working with digital modes and other things.

"I really hope that I can stay as active as I am now and continue to
learn with it."

Award Ceremony

The 2010 Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) "Young Ham of the Year Award" will
be presented to Cody Anderson, KI4FUV, on Saturday, August 21st at the
Huntsville Hamfest in Huntsville, Alabama. As the 2010 "Young Ham of
the Year," Cody will receive -- courtesy of Vertex-Standard -- an
expense-paid trip to the Huntsville Hamfest, along with a gift of
Yaesu brand ham radio equipment. CQ magazine will treat him to an
expense-paid week at Spacecamp Huntsville, and will present Cody with
a variety of CQ products. Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) will provide
Cody with a commemorative plaque at the award ceremony. Once again,
the cost of year's plaque has been underwritten by Dave Bell (W6AQ),
President of DBA Entertainment Inc., Hollywood, California. Heil
Sound Ltd. will also be presenting Cody with a ham radio related gift.

The presentation of the award as a regular feature of the Huntsville
Hamfest has been made possible through the generosity and kindness of
the event's Planning Committee and the good offices of Huntsville
Hamfest Association Vice President Charlie Emerson, N4OKL. (See
http://www.hamfest.org)

This year's award ceremony will be hosted by Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF and
Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, of Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) along with
representatives of corporate underwriters Vertex-Standard and CQ
Communications, Inc.

Award Program Background

The Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) "Young Ham of the Year" award (formerly
the Westlink Report Young Ham of the Year Award ) has been presented
annually for the past 25 years to a licensed radio amateur (Ham) who
is 18 years of age or younger and who has provided outstanding service
to the nation, his/her community or the betterment of the state of the
art in communications through the Amateur Radio hobby/service. A
website with full information on the award program and background
material is located at http://www.arnewsline.org.

Award Sponsors

The award program is jointly sponsored by the Los Angeles,
California-based Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) with corporate support
from Vertex-Standard Corporation of Cerritos, California and CQ
Magazine of Hicksville, NY.

Since 1976, the Southern California-based Amateur Radio Newsline(tm)
and its predecessor, the Westlink Radio Network, have been providing
radio amateurs around the world with up-to-the-minute news at no cost
to them. Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) also co-sponsors with the Quarter
Century Wireless Association the "Roy Neal, K6DUE, Amateur Radio
Mentoring Project" that serves as a clearinghouse to match radio
amateurs in need of educational assistance on the hobby with those
able to aid them. (See http://www.arnewsline.org)

The award's two major corporate underwriters are world leaders in their
respective areas of Amateur Radio product support.

Vertex-Standard Corporation, which has been a corporate underwriter
since the inception of the award program in 1986 is considered the
trailblazer in the design, manufacture and distribution of high
quality Vertex-Standard commercial two-way radio, monitoring and
air-band communications equipment along with its Standard Horizon
marine electronics line and Yaesu brand Amateur Radio equipment. The
Yaesu name is known world-wide among ham radio aficionados and is
synonymous with premium quality ham radio gear. (See
http://www.vertexstandard.com)

CQ magazine and its sister publications, CQ VHF, Popular Communications
and WorldRadio Online, are published by CQ Communications, Inc., and
are considered the trend-setting publications serving today's modern
radio amateur. (See http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com)

Past Recipients

Past recipients of the "ARNewsline Young Ham of the Year Award" include
Shawn Alan Wakefield, WK5P, of Bartlesville, OK (1986); David Rosenman,
KA9PMK, of Muncie, IN (1987); Jonathan Binstock, NK3D, of Potomac, MD
(1988); Erin McGinnis, KAOWTE, of Topeka, KS (1989); Mary Alestra,
KB2IGG, of Staten Island, NY (1990); Richard S. "Sammy" Garrett,
AAOCR, of St. Louis, MO (1991); Angela (Angie) Fischer, KBOHXY, also
of St. Louis (1992); Kevin Boudreaux, N5XMH, of New Orleans, LA
(1993); Allison Daneen Zettwoch, KD4CKP, of Louisville KY (1994); Adam
Weyhaupt, N9MEZ, of Alton IL (1995); Toby Metz, KB7UIM, of Boise ID
(1996); Brian Mileshosky, N5ZGT, of Albuquerque NM (1997); Richard
Paczkowski, Jr., KF4BIA, of Edgewater, FL (1998); Michelle Swann,
KE4EZI, of Warner-Robins, GA (1999); Christopher Arthur, KT4XA, of
Russelville, AL (2000); Patrick Clark, KC8BFD, of Elkwood, WV (2001);
Josh Abramowicz, KB3GWY, of Reading, PA (2002); Jay Thompson, W6JAY,
of Santa Ana, CA (2003); Andrea Hartlage, KB4IUM, of Grayson, GA
(2004), Rebekah Dorff, WG4Y, of Hoover, AL (2005), Catherine Ferry,
NC8F, of Streetville, OH. (2006), Grant Morine, W4GHM, of Wilmington,
NC (2007), Emily Stewart, KC0PTL, of Leavenworth, KS. (2008), Andrew
Koenig, KE5GDB of Houston, TX. (2009).