Fred Maia, W5YI (SK)

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,…

RJ3AR (ex.UA6JR/3) SK

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. Ездили покорять RDA и на УКВ поевые дни. В последние…

T6AF killed in Afghanistan

  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…