TIARA-3rd Annual Lynch Award:

TIARA-3rd Annual Lynch Award:

"TIARA-3rd Annual Lynch Award:
Steven Herman (7J1AIL) on December 17, 2005
Contact: Steve Herman, 7J1AIL
tiara@bosai.org

KB5AVY Named Winner of 3rd Annual Lynch Award

(TOKYO) _ Roberto Dabdoub, M.D., KB5AVY, today was named the recipient of the W. Sandy Lynch Memorial Award, given annually by the Tokyo International Amateur Radio Association (TIARA).
For 20 years, Dr. Dabdoub, a General Class ham struggled to keep four reporters on the air in the New Orleans area with little assistance from other users.

The Honduran native, who moved to the United States 45 years ago, saw his two decades of toiling pay off when one of his repeaters became the only machine to remain working in the metro area following Hurricane Katrina.

His system was the only link, for a critical period, among the Baton Rouge emergency center, and other relief and emergency centers involved in critical rescue work. Roberto's repeater did not lose power because its QTH at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation had its own auxiliary power plant. "



73 fer nw,
Bob AD5VJ

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