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Dover boy is quite the hamAndrew Copeland has a bright future in electronics, and he has the paperwork to prove it. The 11-year-old resident of Port Dover in Canada recently took a gruelling 25-page test on the finer points of ham radio operation. It took him nearly two hours to answer 100 multiple-choice questions, but he passed with flying colours with a score of 85%. By virtue of that performance, Andrew became one of the youngest people in Canada to earn an amateur radio licence. The "basic plus" licence earned Andrew the call sign VE3NOA and entitles him to converse with amateur radio operators anywhere on commercially available equipment. "You can talk to anybody in the world, learn new languages and meet new people," Andrew said yesterday. "And if I ever need to talk to my dad on the radio, I just come down here (in the basement) and give my call sign and his call sign." That dad would be Gary Copeland, owner of Dover Antenna Service and holder of an advanced radio licence. Andrew has had a long fascination with his father's hobby. He decided to get serious, however, after attending a recent meeting of the Norfolk Amateur Radio Club. "I wanted to accomplish something," Andrew said. "And when I learned I could be the youngest (licence holder) in Canada, I said OK. I looked at the guys at that meeting and said I wanted to be one of them."
Read the full article by the Simcoe Reformer's Monte Sonnenberg
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