KC9UUS is Amateur Radio Newsline's 2013 Young Ham of the Year

摘要

A 16-year-old QST Cover Plaque Award winner from Bloomington, Indiana, is this year's Amateur Radio Newsline "Young Ham of the Year." Readers gave the thumbs up to Padraig Lysandrou, KC9UUS, for his article "A Crazy Idea: DXpedition to Cyprus," which appeared in the May 2013 issue of QST. Lysandrou is among the proteges of Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, a Bloomington High School South chemistry teacher who, at age 5, once was the youngest ham in the US. Rapp invited the young man to join the school's Amateur Radio club and introduced him to the hobby. Rapp and Dr Scott Wright, K0MD, nominated Lysandrou as Young Ham of the Year.