SILENT KEYS
May the Lord Bless all their families!
This page is devoted to those who have made
a mark on this Amateur Radio practitioner. Most now are no longer with us. and their key has gone silent, but their memory, and their love
for ham radio will continue as their legacy
. To
their memory, I would like to dedicate this page and to
list their calls here, as a reminder that we are all tied together at
the antenna as brothers and sisters of this wonderful legacy of communications.
Those who are no longer with us, their name is typed in red.
All others are in color blue.
Updated
page
Call
Name
Call
Name_
K4AKI Vilous "Red" Mullins My Elmer
N4HMN Paul Russell
AE4HZ
Dana Witt
KS4WP
Danny Counts Close Friend and repair man
NO4H
Dave Worley
K4BGQ
Cordell Lee Damron
WB4ZIP
Oval Hillman
WA4EUK Robert “Bob” Lyall
KS4DC Judy
Amburghey WD4OMA
Sam Sandidge
Dear Friend
W4 CFV Joe Fischer Age 92 Old Time Ham Op
KB4RFN Steve H. Amburghey W4YRB
Carl Steele Wonderful Ham
AE4IA Donald L.
Mullins
W4ZYD Michael Steel
WD4GSM
Ervin R “E.R” Hall Jr. WD4JPZ
Bobby G. Garrett
KC4EYN Corbett
McCowan
K4KOP
Rural Mullins (Great friend and ham
KF4NSI
Adrin McGlothin
and Rurals wife Joan)
And one of the greatest tower monkeys I’ve ever known
! KF4QKN
Robert K. Owens.
Robert was licensed by the Dickenson County ARES as their official Tower
Monkey, and thanks
for all
the help with the repeater antenna, and other antenna work you did for
all of us.
*Note: K4AKI was my "Elmer", and showed me
lots of the old radio techniques that I still
use today.
Red passed away after a long and happy life in 2008. He certainly
will be missed by all who knew and loved him,
and as a brother ham in this community.
KB4RFN Steve was one of the new novices that I gave the Novice
exam to, and then in turn, he was one
of the examiners who signed my
CSCE when I upgraded to Extra Class.
To those, we, who will come next, let us remember those
who have gone before us,
to blaze a trail that we all may follow
after them, and leave our sign, that we too, have
passed this way.....Marcos Theopolous.
(__)
Keeping
up with the times, its now a time to talk about the CODE
The
code has long since been labeled as the cause of
some hams going to computers.
Please don’t get me wrong now.
I love the thought of computers being a part of ham radio,
and really, those who are looking
for an easy way of
communicating will find computers a very exciting, and
happy medium. But it is also a cold
medium too. Very little
time is given to the access,
and even less is devoted to the
art. Ham radio is entirely different, and
also, you do not
have the fun of putting up your own antenna, and making
it work. To load up an
amplifier and see the tubes glow hot
with
RF power pulsating thru the filaments to the plate. To
actually have the feeling of
going to another country, via
the air and experience the
feeling of talking to someone
far, far away, or even to someone who is just in the next state
over from you. Nor have the fun of listening for the Code in a
mass
of QRM, along with QSB and QRN.
(look
them up if you don’t know what the Q signs are.)
The
sense of accomplishment is wide and wonderful too....
The FCC
has now given way to any code, and its never been
easier to become a ham radio operator than it
is now, but
I do still hope that all hams will continue to learn at least
five words a minute Morse code. It will someday come in handy.
I
wish that those, who have not had the thrill of the
antenna
party,,, or experienced the thrill of your first CW
QSO
on 40 meters, try it, or you will never know what real
fun on ham radio really is and just how wonderful the
experience
can be to work the world on a wire. Just can't
put
a price on that kind of happiness..
This
is a very important hobby... we do perform a service
and enjoy it, and keep public and officials informed as
well.
AMATEUR RADIO IS AN AMERICAN TREASURE ! .
K B 4 A K S
PSALMS 95
And to all, Happy Hammin’!!
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every QSO
Its
no secret I am a Yaesuham
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