Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Nov 19 2021 09:17 am
KICKER: REMEMBERING RUDY HUBBARD WA4PUP SK
DON/ANCHOR: Finally, we ask: What's in a name? If it's the name newly
bestowed on an ARES shack in Escambia County, Florida.....PLENTY! Kevin
Trotman, N5PRE, concludes our newscast with that story.
KEVIN: The Amateur Radio Emergency Service room inside Escambia County,
Florida's Public Safety building, proved to be a fitting place to
dedicate a plaque honoring the late Rudy Hubbard WA4PUP. Named in Rudy's
memory on November 12th, the room works hard to keep people in northern
Florida safe -- just as Rudy himself did until his death last May at 97.
To many amateurs, he was perhaps best known as the longest continuously
seated section manager for the ARRL in North Florida. To others, such as
Gene Bannon KB4HAH, he was a lifelong friend and an understanding Elmer.
Gene said one of Rudy's gifts to his community was his development of the
section's first formally organized emergency plan, which laid out
guidelines later adopted by other ARRL sections.
Bill Hayden, WY8O (W Y 8 OH), said Rudy had a calming influence in tough
situations and knew what buttons to push to make things happen. To Bill
and many others, he was a father figure.
Gene said that when Hurricane Ivan battered Florida in 2004, Rudy was
able to secure a replacement for a critical 2m repeater that failed --
and he ensured that it became operational within 24 hours to restore
communications with shelters, distribution centers and various agencies.
Gene remembered too how in 2005, Rudy rallied other section managers to
arrange for interstate amateur radio response when Hurricane Katrina
struck in Mississippi and Louisiana.
Shortly before his death, Rudy requested that his shack be dismantled and
its contents sold to benefit the Five Flags Amateur Radio Club. But
Rudy's expertise, his friends and of course, his name are together in
another shack, the ARES room where volunteers continue much of Rudy's
good works.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Kevin Trotman, N5PRE.
(GENE BANNON KB4HAH, BILL HAYDEN WY8O, PATCH.COM)
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