[NCDXA] [PVRC] K3ZO Ham Bio from NCJ 2015 courtesy CW Ops

Fri Jan 6 18:49:42 UTC 2023

Great idea...who has the ball ?

73, Jim W3NRJ 

    On Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 07:57:47 PM EST, w4rn73 via NCDXA <ncdxa at ncdxa.org> wrote:  

 The PVRC chapter to which Fred belonged can form a club and request his call in memoriam.  
The ARRL's VEC office and the MD director could be of assistance in this.
The K3ZO call sign could then be kept alive and in use for PVRC Field Day or NAQP efforts (et al] rather than retiring it which is, in effect hiding it away.  
Just a suggestion.   I, for one would enjoy working K3ZO again through the tears and remembering our dear, departed member and friend.
73MikeW4RN 

-------- Original message --------From: "Robert B. Weinstock via PVRC" <pvrc at mailman.qth.net> Date: 1/5/23 4:33 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Phillip Barsky <phillipbarsky at gmail.com>, Fred Matos <blainefred at verizon.net> Cc: PVRC Digest Submissions <pvrc at mailman.qth.net>, NCDXA <ncdxa at ncdxa.org> Subject: Re: [PVRC] [NCDXA] K3ZO Ham Bio from NCJ 2015 courtesy CW Ops 
Intriguing concept, but I feel quite sure that FCC would not entertain such a request. FCC could, however, reissue K3ZO to an entity formed for the purpose of memorializing Fred, as they have done in many other cases.
73,
Bob, W3RQ
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On Thursday, January 5, 2023, 3:52 PM, Phillip Barsky <phillipbarsky at gmail.com> wrote:

Fred,  How does one do that?

73  Phil

On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 3:39 PM Fred Matos <blainefred at verizon.net> wrote:

Another way to honor amateurs who have made major contributions to the service is that their call sign would be “retired” by the FCC after they died and never reissued.

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On Thursday, January 5, 2023, 1:22 PM, Phillip Barsky via NCDXA <ncdxa at ncdxa.org> wrote:

Willie,  Have you sent your fabulous idea to the CEO of the ARRL? Going directly to the top works, in most cases, to illuminate the idea in an organization. I would surmise that MOST hams licensed in the late fifties to early sixties have similar backgrounds fostered by  ham activities in their teens. 
Thank you for speaking out about this subject.
73  Phil K3EW
On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 11:42 AM WILLIE BABER <wlbaber at bellsouth.net> wrote:

 "We knew this day would eventually come.  It doesn't make it any easier." --Ken, k4zw
I have often wondered what would make it easier, as we all have it "coming" in an aging fraternity.
I suggest public narratives of the lives of senior amateurs while we are still living, in QST.
I have suggested this approach to QST editors and as a possible repacement of "a look back"---rather than reprint an old QST cover and article, describe instead the real-lives of senior ops including the link between professional lives, and/or work, and radio technology and activity. This would not involve contesting only, but any technological and/or operating aspect of amateur radio. 
What would Fred, k3zo, have had to say about diplomacy and amateur radio, in some details about his life?  While we can reconstruct Fred's story based on the NCJ interview, other published material, and those who knew him well, there is no substitute for the words of Fred, himself.
I offered an example to QST through the life and work of Jim Hall, w4tvi, a dxer, cw op, and engineer.  I helped Jim disassemble his station and EE laboratory. He and wife Myrtle moved into assisted living as they both approach the age of 90 years.
I am hopeful that Jim's story will grace the pages of QST while he is still living.
Why? 
Jim was the lead engineer and manager of HP's  development (with Japanese engineers) of Canon printers.  He was highly successful, but over time he very much missed working in rf engineering.  Jim retired early just to get back into radio---otherwise having very little leisure time given work as an HP manager.
Each life story could highlight ones youthful interest in radio and operating--including older technology and old radios---that often led to work opportunities or other insights into life and work; this knowledge may be helpful to young people today in the same way that Jim, in his youth, was inspired by Thomas Edison (self-educated), who died in 1931.
Or, in the example of Fred, how he got involved in the United States Foreign Service and PVRC, as noted in the NCJ interview.
Finally, maybe this approach to "a look back" would help bridge the generational gap in amateur radio, in the pages of QST.

Fred, k3zoRIP

73, Will, wj9b

CWops #1085
Former CWA Advisor levels II and III
http://cwops.org/

    On Thursday, January 5, 2023, 8:04:04 AM MST, Phillip Barsky <phillipbarsky at gmail.com> wrote:  

 From CWops reflector:

"A few years ago, K1AR worked with Fred to create Fred's ham radio biography.  It was published in the NCJ in 2015.

sepoct15feat.pdf (ncjweb.com) ( https://ncjweb.com/features/sepoct15feat.pdf?amp;mibextid=Zxz2cZ )

Bob R - N7WY"

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