Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (A
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jul 17 2020 11:44 am
Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2229, for Friday, July 17, 2020
Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2229, with a release date of
Friday, July 17, 2020, to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.
The following is a QST. Hams challenge a shortwave proposal near Chicago.
A DMR network gets completed in Ireland -- and meet Newsline's Young Ham
of the Year for 2020. All this and more, as Amateur Radio Newsline Report
Number 2229, comes your way right now.
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YOUNG HAM OF THE YEAR: MEET CHRIS BRAULT KD8YVJ
PAUL/ANCHOR: We take great pride in our top story this week: Introducing
our winner of the Bill Pasternak WA6ITF Memorial Amateur Radio Newsline
Young Ham of the Year Award for 2020. Here's Mark Abramowicz, NT3V, who
spoke to him.
BRAULT: Okay then! Not quite sure how to respond to that! I'm speechless
to tell you the truth! I don't know what to say.
ABRAMOWICZ: That was the reaction when Christopher Brault, KD8YVJ,
learned at the end of a Zoom conversation, that he had been selected
the 2020 Bill Pasternak WA6ITF Memorial Amateur Radio Newsline Young
Ham of the Year.
BRAULT: It's a goal that's achieved. I've had it set for awhile, and
we did it.
ABRAMOWICZ: Brault, who's 17, is the son of Jocelyn Brault, KD8VRX, and
Kimberly Brault, of Liberty Township, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati.
Brault says he first got interested in amateur radio through his father,
whose curiosity was piqued by exposure to Jamboree on the Air as a youth,
and late,r an adult in the Boy Scouts of America.
BRAULT: "Most of the time, it was just driving in the car. He would have
a mobile radio in the car, and the antenna on the roof. We would be on a
road trip somewhere we'd be talking to people along the way, it seemed
like fun."
ABRAMOWICZ: Brault said that sparked his desire to get a license.
BRAULT: "Eventually got my license in 2014, and then a year later, got
my General. Hopefully, once this whole school thing and college search
thing dies down, I'll try and get my Extra."
ABRAMOWICZ: Brault is a member of the Dayton Amateur Radio Club, the
West Chester Amateur Radio Club, the Ohio Valley Experimenters Club,
and the St. Xavier High School Radio Club in Cincinnati, where he's
an honor student, and helped restart the school's club and will be
going into is senior year there.
He has earned recognition for his achievements in promoting amateur
radio to his peers, including the Hiram Percy Maxim Award, and the
Great Lakes Division Young Amateur of the Year.
In 2017, Brault was invited the join the Dave Kalter Youth DX Adventure
to Costa Rica, where he joined Bryant Rascoll, KG5HVO, our 2018 YHOTY
award winner, and Austin Harris, WA8CCS, in making more than 3,100
contacts.
Brault also helped in the planning of an Amateur Radio on board the
International Space Station contact in 2016, and spoke with Astronaut
Kate Rubins, KG5FYJ, while she flew overhead.
But, Brault says two contacts during a Boy Scout Jamboree on the Air
event, sparked his interest in exploring a career in aviation.
BRAULT: "So, we had one guy in Texas that was in like a single-prop,
just flying around, I think it was on 20 meters. And then, we had
someone else, I think he was flying a 767 or 747, an actual airliner.
He was coming from Heathrow to O'Hare, or something of that nature.
And, he was just like, 'Yeah, I'm a United captain, and we're just
bored, so I thought I'd just play radio up here.' I'm like, 'Okay,
nice!'"
ABRAMOWICZ: Brault said he's working a part-time job right now at the
Butler County Regional Airport near his home, and was invited to take
flying lessons. He said he's on his way to earning his private pilot's
license, and is now seriously pursuing a dream of flying as a career.
BRAULT: "Weighing out my options, seeing if I want to do the college
route, or if I want to do it on the side. But, I'm starting to lean
that I'm probably going to do the college route. For now, I think
that's the plan is just become a commercial pilot."
"I mean, it's just from day-one, it's been something I've been
interested in, just like ham radio, and I think I could see myself
really enjoying it."
ABRAMOWICZ: From the judges, to the entire team here at Amateur Radio
Newsline, congratulations Chris!
For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mark Abramowicz, NT3V.
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