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- ARLX012 Radio to the rescue
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- Special Bulletin 12 ARLX012
- >From ARRL Headquarters
- Newington CT March 10, 1994
- To all radio amateurs
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- SB SPCL ARL ARLX012
- ARLX012 Radio to the rescue
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- Amateur Radio to the rescue
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- Two men rescued from a sinking boat in the Gulf of Mexico credit
- Amateur Radio for saving their lives.
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- Larry Hooker, KB5ZNY, of Thaxton, Mississippi, and his sailing
- partner, Rett White, were returning from Honduras on Hooker's 35-ft
- sailing vessel ''Off The Hook,'' when they ran into an unexpected
- storm and high seas.
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- Hooker had been in contact with his friend Randall O'Brian, KD5ZH,
- of West Point, Mississippi, since hoisting anchor on February 6, on
- 80, 40, and 20 Meters. Hooker had visited his daughter, Tina
- Hooker, KB5YNN, a missionary with Global Outreach in the
- northeastern part of Honduras, in an area accessible only by air or
- sea.
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- O'Brian was the first to learn of their difficulties and eventually
- contacted the US Coast Guard. O'Brian continued to help provide
- communication, along with the Coast Guard, who came up on 3862.
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- On March 4, Hooker and White were taken aboard the Coast Guard
- cutter Cushing and their boat was put under tow but subsequently
- sank.
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- ''The Lord decided that he would use Amateur Radio to save us,''
- Hooker said.
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