Xref: news.cs.tut.fi rec.radio.info:5247 rec.radio.amateur.misc:53086 Path: news.cs.tut.fi!news.funet.fi!news.tele.fi!sunic!EU.net!uunet!psinntp!arrl.org!usenet Subject: ARLB050 Atlantic Division awards Newsgroups: rec.radio.info,rec.radio.amateur.misc Followup-To: rec.radio.amateur.misc Approved: mtracy@arrl.org From: w1aw@arrl.org Organization: American Radio Relay League Date: Mon, 06 Jun 1994 17:06:06 EDT Message-ID: <$arlb050.1994@ampr.org> Lines: 37 SB QST @ ARL $ARLB050 ARLB050 Atlantic Division awards ZCZC AG15 QST de W1AW ARRL Bulletin 50 ARLB050 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT June 6, 1994 To all radio amateurs SB QST ARL ARLB050 ARLB050 Atlantic Division awards Atlantic Division awards The ARRL Atlantic Division ''Amateur of the Year'' for 1994 is Bob Bennett, W3WCQ, of Towson, Maryland. Among his many contributions to Amateur Radio, Bennett, 58, co-anchors the ''Answer Man Net'' on the Baltimore Amateur TV Society repeater. After serving for nearly 10 years as the Atlantic Division representative to the ARRL UHF/VHF Advisory Committee, in 1993 Bennett was named chairman of the new ARRL Spectrum Committee. The Division's Technical Achievement award was won jointly by Bill Ferguson, WA3BXW, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, and Charles ''Jim'' Smith, K3ATI, of Newportville, Pennsylvania. And the ''Grand Ole Ham'' is 94-year-old Dean Wallace, K2ANM, of Herkimer, New York. Dean was first licensed in 1919, as 8AAF. The awards were announced at the ARRL Atlantic Division Convention, held in conjunction with the Rochester (New York) Hamfest, on May 21, 1994. NNNN /EX