PAOLI, PA, April 29, 1999 - Ed Gable, K2MP, has been named the Atlantic Division's Amateur of the Year. Division Director Kay Craigie, WT3P, announced this year's winners of its 1999 Atlantic Division awards today. The Division also named the winners of its Grand Ole Ham and Technical Achievement awards. Formal awards presentations will take place in June during the Division Convention in Rochester, New York.

"This group of winners well symbolizes the turn of the century era in which we live," said an announcement from the Division. "Our Amateur of the Year devotes his efforts to conserving the record of wireless history, while our Technical Achievement winner presses the cutting edge of research out into space."

Gable, from Hilton, New York, is an Assistant Section Manager in Western New York and an Atlantic Division Assistant Director. He's an active member of the Rochester DX Association and currently serves as secretary-treasurer and a volunteer for the Rochester Amateur Radio Association, and well-known as a presenter at club meetings in the division. After the death of radio historian Bruce Kelley, W2ICE, Gable took over as curator of the Antique Wireless Association museum, and he is well-known among vintage radio collectors.

The Amateur of the Year award is as much about character and care for others as it is about activities. The ham who nominated Gable for the award related the following anecdote: "I recall one year at the Syracuse Hamfest when, in passing, I told Ed that I had just seen a Hallicrafters S-41G just like the one that I had for my first receiver. A number of years went by. At the Buffalo Hamfest, Ed took me to his car and said, 'Here, this is for you." There it was, an original S-41G in full operating condition!"