Faith Hannah Lea,
KD3Z (Photo
courtesy AR Newsline)
Faith
Hannah Lea, KD3Z, of Palm Coast, Florida, has been selected as the 2021 Bill
Pasternak Memorial Amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year. Lea, who's 16,
is already a junior in college. She has operated from three continents,
attended the Youngsters On The Air camp in Johannesburg, South Africa, and was
part of the 2016 Dave Kalter Memorial Youth DX team operating PJ6 from the
Dutch island of Saba. A member of an all-ham family, Faith Hannah has also had
two articles published in CQ and served as an ARES net control during
three different hurricanes. Completing high school via home schooling and earning
an Associate of Arts degree at age 15, Faith Hannah is currently a junior at
Stetson University in Deland, Florida. She is working toward degrees in both molecular
and cellular biology and business administration.
The YHOTY award was presented virtually this year during a live webcast of W5KUB's Amateur Radio Roundtable (see <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUoxFrQJxVQ>. It is traditionally presented during the Huntsville Hamfest but Newsline opted for the online ceremony because of the spike in the Delta variant of Covid-19.
