2006 Atlantic Division Award Winners Announced

09/04/06 -- The Atlantic Division Awards Committee is pleased to announce that following awards have been named.

AMATEUR OF THE YEAR

The Atlantic Division Amateur of the Year is awarded to Richard Moll W3RM.

As a young man, Dick and a close buddy, Harry Martin W3PSH, conducted radio and code classes for interested schoolmates. Dick taught code to his sister and helped her earn her license so she could keep in touch with family while away at college. Dick coached a missionary in amateur radio to earn her license in 1989 and assembled a 10 meter station for use at their mission in Haiti. For a five year period during turbulent times in Haiti and with a total ban on international phone calls, Dick worked the Haiti station in the morning to pass traffic, personal messages and arrange for delivery of life support supplies. When another mission was later established in the Dominican Republic, Dick repeated his dedicated effort for them as well. Dick has been involved with emergency communication locally. He’s been involved with a scholarship fund through his amateur radio club, Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club that is administered through the Foundation for Amateur Radio. He’s been involved with two DXpenditions, one to Turks and Caicos and another to Aruba. Dick has been involved with his community serving on the board of directors for the Big Brothers Association of Philadelphia.

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT

The Atlantic Division Technical Achievement Award is awarded to Loring Kutchins W3QA.

Lor has served with the ARES/RACES group in Chester County and has been involved in the technical areas of those organizations. He has worked making radio-email successful for use within his county and neighboring counties and the EPA Section. He is the principal designer of the digital messaging network being used and uses, VHF-UHF, HF and 1.2 GHz. The gateways are made available to other counties.

Lor also is involved with an international humanitarian project which uses amateur radio. The International Health Service (HIS) sends medical volunteer teams to Honduras each year to provide free medical care to poor people living in extremely remote areas of the country who have no other access to modern medicine. They use amateur radio to communicate between the teams in remote villages and the project base and between Honduras and the US. Lor has provided training to to team members and they are using radio email for most of the messages rather than lengthy voice nets.

GRAND OLE HAM

The Atlantic Division Awards Committee is pleased to announce that Page Pyne (WA3EOP) has been selected at the Atlantic Division Grand Ole Ham.

Page has been a member of the Antietam Radio Association (ARA) for over 40 years and an ARRL member for many years as well. During that time, he has been instrumental in getting the ARA involved with the Foundation for Amateur Radio (FAR) and the ARRL.

In the late 1960s, he brought it to the attention of the ARA that Hiram Percy Maxim (W1AW) (1869-1936) was buried in Hagerstown and that the ARA should honor the 100th birth date of HPM during the week of September 2, 1969. Over the past 40 years, Page has held many ARRL Field position in the Maryland-DC Section including, but not limited to OBS, ORS, OVS, OPS, etc. Most recently, Page was instrumental in co-organizing the highly successful ARRL Maryland State Convention which included the and graveside ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the "Old Man's" death.

Please join us in congratulating each of our awards recipients!

Bill Edgar N3LLR

Atlantic Division Director

Tom Abernethy W3TOM

Atlantic Division Vice Director

2006 Atlantic Division Award Winners Announced

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