Young US Ham wins at Science and Engineering Fair

Dragan Tuip, KG7OQT, a 10-year-old radio amateur operator has won first-place at the Washington State Science and Engineering Fair for his Magnetic Loop antenna.

“When they called my name during the award ceremony, I was stunned! I was amazed!”

— Dragan Tuip, KG7OQT

Dragan has been licensed since he was 8 and obtained his General ticket a year later, one of his goals is to earn DXCC before he turns 11.

Full Story - http://www.arrl.org/news/young-ham-wins-first-place-science-fair-trophy-with-mag-loop-antenna-entry

Washington State Science and Engineering Fair - http://www.wssef.org/

Ladyada Awarded Ham Radio License

Limor Fried, aka Ladyada, an electrical engineer and owner of the electronics hobbyist company Adafruit Industries passed all three classes of the Amateur / Ham Radio exams, and now is an Extra Class Amateur.

Adafruit Industries designs and sells open source electronic kits, components, and tools. 

More Information - https://blog.adafruit.com/2016/04/20/congrats-ladyada-ham-license-and-getting-to-amateur-extra-adafruit-arrl-hamradio/

K1JT is Amateur of the Year

Joe Taylor, K1JT has been named as 2016 Dayton Hamvention Amateur of the Year.

He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1993 for the discovery of the first orbiting pulsar, leading to observations that established the existence of gravitational waves.

Joe was first licensed in 1954 as KN2ITP. Since his retirement, he has been developing and enhancing digital protocols for weak-signal amateur radio communication, including JT65 and WSPR.