My HAM Friend Harold C.Steves (Hal) KL7HJD Passed away on 1 June 2012 in Roseburg / Oregon / USA.
Photo by RW3AH (1991 Alaska, Anchorage)
Photo by RW3AH (1991 Alaska, Anchorage)
Photo by RW3AH (1991 Alaska, Anchorage)
Harold "Hal" Carleton Steves, 87, was born September 28, 1924 in Columbia City, Oregon.
Harold served as radarman 2nd class on the command ship USS Mt.McKinley. He received...
CQ columnist Fred Maia, W5YI, a leading amateur radio journalist, educator and pioneer of volunteer examining, passed away on March 28 after a battle with cancer.
Maia, 76, published "The W5YI Report," dubbed "America's Oldest Ham Radio Newsletter," from 1978 to 2003, and has been a CQ contributing editor since 1985. His regulatory affairs column, first titled "Ticket Talk," then "Washington Readout,"...
Very sad news came from Russia / Moscow. Serge Rostenko RJ3AR (SK).
ex: UA6JR/3, UA6JR, UA6JBK, UA6HEF, RA6HKW, UA6-108-430.
"Константиныча", как все его ласково звали, я знал еще с начала лихих 90х, когда работали вместе в команде компании "КРОУНИ".
Часто бывал у него в гостях....
James McLaughlin, WA2EWE/T6AF, was one of several killed in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, April 27. News sources say that eight American troops and a US contractor died Wednesday after an Afghan military pilot opened fire during a meeting in an operations room of the Afghan Air Corps at the Kabul airport -- the deadliest episode to date of an Afghan turning against his coalition partners, officials...
HF antenna pioneer A. J. F. (Frank) Clement, W6KPC, of Bakersfield, California, died September 23 as a result of an highway accident. He was 93 and an ARRL Life Member. A former owner of Tri-Ex Tower, Frank designed and built a number of high performance HF arrays over the course of several decades. The June 1980 issue of QST featured his article describing the Collinear Yagi Sextet. As he described...