In the News: 5 Year Old passes FCC Technician Amateur Radio exam
Before I heap praises on the subject of this story, I’m going to heap praises on the team that turned this story in to NBC 9News in Denver, Colorado. Reporter Meagan Fitzgerald and photojournalist Andy Buck have done an excellent job on this report. Seriously, in a world where news reports on ham radio tend to get butchered either by lack of knowledge by the reporters or lack of proper guidance through press releases, this report blew my mind. To the point where I will personally nominate Fitzgerald and Buck for the 2015 ARRL Bill Leonard award later this year.
Colton KEØCRD and his VE team (photo credit KEØCRD bio page at qrz.com)
And now on to the meat of the matter. Let’s all welcome Colton Ragsdale KEØCRD to the hobby, one of our newest Technicians. What makes Colton so special? He’s five. And he only missed three questions on the Tech exam. I’ll let Meagan Fitzgerald explain the whole thing to you because she will do it better than your humble blogger can (after the jump, due to the fact that I couldn’t figure out how to turn off AutoPlay on the embedded video):
The whole story is available at the 9News website. And my congratulations to Zeke K0XK and Debra K0KAI for raising such a smart and well spoken kid. Colton’s QRZ.com bio says he wants to go to Dayton this year. Can’t wait to see you there!
(Published from DFW, Texas)