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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/HPXKTEQN4J47FDF37EN7I5SUID7MZ4TU/",
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        "address": "clive (a) g3cwv.co.uk",
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    "sender_name": "Clive Wallis",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re John Heath G7HIA, SK",
    "date": "2013-02-18T09:30:19Z",
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    "content": "I was very saddened to learn of John's passing.  We had exchanged many \ne-mails during the last few years. I didn't know John very well, \nalthough we had met at the ASAT-UK Colloquium on several occasions. \nTopics we discussed by e-mail included processing Delphi 3C telemetry, \nOSCAR-11 spin rate, automatic Doppler tracking and ARISSat-1 decay.\n\nJohn was very active in using our satellites and promoting their use to \nothers.  For several years he was net controller of the Midlands two \nmetre AMSAT net.  He also wrote the Space column for RSGB's RadCom \nmagazine for a number of years. He contributed many articles to OSCAR \nNews, recently in the September 2012 issue about ARISSat-1 orbital \ndecay. His last contribution to OSCAR News was a short item in the \nDecember issue, congratulating AMSAT-UK on their 200th issue of the \nmagazine. He included a photograph of himself, Astronaut Ron Parise \nWA4SIR and Geoff Perry, founder of the Kettering Group of satellite \nobservers. It was taken at the 1998 Colloquium.\n\nDuring the course of our discussions John mentioned that he was having \nsome unpleasant hospital treatment. He also told me about his working \ncareer, which I  thought may be of interest.\n\nAs a teenager he was interested in organic chemistry and went to work in \nindustry, eventually in the R&D department at Bakelite in Tyseley, \nBirmingham. In the 1960's/70's he worked on the phenolic resins used to \nmake copper clad PCB material, and did the first industrial synthesis on \nnonyl phenol by ion exchange. There were massive world stocks of Nonene \nat knock down prices so they were looking for a way to use it to make \nphenol/formaldehyde resins used in PCB manufacture.\n\n  His YL Pam at that time worked in a small hairdressing supplies \nbusiness and he sometimes worked with her when they needed extra staff \nto cover late night opening. After his marriage to Pam, her firm decided \nto open a branch in Leicester and they were offered the opportunity to \nre-locate and run the new operation. Together they built up the \nbusiness, diversifying into related activities with a skin care \nmanufacturing  company (where his science background was invaluable), a \nbeauty products wholesale business  and a  mail order operation. The \nbusiness expanded from 6 people to a staff of nearly 200 on four sites.\n\nJohn said that Amateur radio helped to keep him sane by giving him a \ntotally different set of things to think about and emptied his head of \nbusiness concerns for a few hours each week!\n\nA few years ago Pam was diagnosed with a serious illness and confined to \na wheel  chair. This caused them to  bring forward their retirement \nplans and they moved to Devon.\n\nMy condolences to Pam, family & friends.\n\nRIP John, we will miss you.\n\nClive Wallis   G3CWV\n",
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