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Subj: Jerry Schmitt KK5YY - SK
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From: W4DPH@W4DPH.#TPA.FL.USA.NOAM
To : SAT@AMSAT
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 152.01 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. June 1, 2003
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-152.01
Jerry's wife, Barbara KD5CGU, contacted me via email and informed me
that he
has become a Silent Key. Jerry KK5YY (ex KC5EGG) passed away on Friday
May
23 due to a sudden heart attack. As many of you know, Jerry was a very
influential and valuable asset to all of Ham Radio. He was a known icon
in
the Amateur satellite and APRS communities, a net control operator for
the
New Mexico Swapnet, an efficient communicator during the Cerro Grande
fires,
the designer and main promoter of the Arrow Antenna used for satellite
work,
and a developer to improve the operation of many popular radios, such as
the
Icom IC-706MkIIG, Yaesu FT-100, Kenwood D7A --- with those companies'
support after noting what he was capable of making them do. Jerry
organized
the International Space Station QSO that took place in 2001 at the
Museum on
Natural History for a bunch of school children, too. Above all, Jerry
was a
great friend, and elmer (especially to me since I was 12) and a fun
person
to chat with on the radio and in person.
Jerry was on the verge of retirement from Los Alamos National
Laboratories
and planning to move with Barbara to Alaska, a place he has always
loved.
Ham Radio has lost a mighty fine person, and he has left some mighty big
shoes
to be filled.
Please pass this sad word on to all the Hams you know.
73, KK5YY.
[ANS thanks Brian, N5ZGT, for the above information.]
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