Tag " SK"

  With deep sorrow and grief, we inform that our HAM friend Alexander Pashkov (UA9OA) has left us for the heavenly abode on 29th March 2015. Dearest Alex’s family, please accept our most heartfelt sympathies for your loss. Our thoughts are with you during this difficult time. Words cannot even begin to express our sorrow, you are in our prayers. Thousands Alex’s friends from...


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With deep sorrow and grief, we inform that our friend Yuri Lobatshev RL3DZ (ex UA0KCL) has left us for the heavenly abode on Tuesday, 19th August 2014. Dearest Yuri's family, please accept our most heartfelt sympathies for your loss. Our thoughts are with you during this difficult time. Words cannot even begin to express our sorrow, you are in our prayers. Thousands Yuri's friends from all over...


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Max de Henseler, HB9RS, the founder and president emeritus of 4U1UN at United Nations headquarters in New York, died December 30. He was 80. A ham since 1955, de Henseler had been a short-wave listener since the late 1940s. In 1976, while in New York as the UN's chief cartographer, de Henseler reactivated the United Nations Radio Club station K2UN at its new home in midtown Manhattan. As Jack Troster,...


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Tom Christian, who has died aged 77, was a great-great-great-grandson of the Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian and a leading citizen of Pitcairn, a tiny British island dependency in the Pacific with a current population of fewer than 50 people. Christian, one of the few Pitcairners of his generation to be educated abroad, became an internationally known ham radio operator, and as chief radio officer...


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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...


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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,"...


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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....


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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...


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