[NCDXA] Dick Maylott W2YE SK

[Alfred Laun]

Fellow members of NCDXA:

By now I'm sure some of you have already heard that past NCDXA President
Dick Maylott, W2YE became a Silent Key on Sunday August 23.  According to
accounts that I have read, Dick suffered a massive heart attack while at
home Sunday, and another attack while being transported by ambulance to the
hospital.  The second attack did him in.

Dick was born on May 7, 1937.   This is sort of ominous for me in
particular because I was born on December 9 of the same year.

Dick and I had a special relationship because both of us were Managers of
respective ARRL incoming QSL bureaus.  In fact when I became Manager of the
Third Call Area QSL Bureau in 2006, Dick had already served as Manager of
the Two-Letter Prefix Fourth Call Area QSL Bureau for some years before
that.  As such he was especially helpful to me as I settled into the job,
giving me a number of invaluable pointers.  And during our joint tenure as
managers of parallel bureaus we consulted with each other frequently and
endeavored to keep ourselves abreast of developments in the QSL field.   In
fact the last time I saw Dick in person was at a PVRC meeting in Virginia
when I transferred to him bureau materials which Phil Barsky, K3EW had
managed to retrieve from the home of the late Don Search, W3AZD who was one
of Dick's bureau sorters (as well as being one of the sorters in our
bureau.)

Beyond that Dick was a regular at our NCDXA meetings, as well as the
regular PVRC meetings run by WX3B and K5VRX, respectively, so it was not
unusual for us to meet in person as many as three times a month, and
following the K5VRX luncheon meetings it was a common practice for me to
follow his little
red car as we both made the left turn onto Route 50 from Annandale Road on
our respective trips back home.

I found Dick to be an exceptionally agreeable person, always with the same
calm, smiling demeanor.  He appeared to be in great physical shape, trim
and fit, and year after year looked exactly the same.  That's what has made
his demise especially shocking.  But as I find myself in my 80's also, for
Dick personally I can appreciate that it was not a bad way to say 73 to the
world, as he was in full possession of his mental and physical faculties
right up until the end.

For us, however, it represents a tremendous loss.  Thanks Dick, wherever
you are now,  for your wonderful camaraderie and fraternal friendship.

73 in Sadness,

Fred Laun, K3ZO
President
NCDXA
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