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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/WRYIL2VWQNWPPRD4FKYKYQAJXZAC5K4E/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "WRYIL2VWQNWPPRD4FKYKYQAJXZAC5K4E", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/SETFRHABIU3UDH4PZLOOFKQYRKQ6Z65B/", "sender": { "address": "lafrieda (a) earthlink.net", "mailman_id": "9b55c2e7823c48249f4beec7ae0a39e0", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/9b55c2e7823c48249f4beec7ae0a39e0/emails/" }, "sender_name": "James R. La Frieda", "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: W2NSD , silent key, had a full, solid life and then some !", "date": "2013-09-15T21:24:50Z", "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/SETFRHABIU3UDH4PZLOOFKQYRKQ6Z65B/", "children": [ "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/WPLCABSULTN2KAIQXL2UMIQLP6GEYHYA/" ], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "On 9/15/2013 9:21 AM, R Oler wrote:\n> he lived a full and solid life, but his absence will be felt....for those who loved satellites during what is probably the golden era of hamsats. Wayne was a friend, as he was to so many pioneering technologies. Wayne Green. Fair skies. WB5MZO\n>\n> Sent from my iPad\n> _______________________________________________\n>\n> Yes- Wayne-W2NSD- who passed away two days ago, at age 91, did indeed, as you can observe below, lived a full solid life, and then some:\n\n * started one of the first personal computer software companies\n (Instant Software).\n * opened computer software stores - eventually sold a national chain\n of 58 stores.\n * while in college started a broadcasting station (WRPI) which is now\n the largest student activity.\n * served on the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Board of Overseers\n and RPI Council.\n * served as the First Executive in Residence at RPI.\n * served as a consultant for the RPI Business Incubator - which won\n the 1996 prize as the best in the country.\n * been a licensed amateur radio operator as W2NSD since 1940.\n * pioneered amateur radio repeaters since 1969, starting with WRLAAB\n on Mt. Monadnock NH.\n * established amater radio in Jordan in 1970 and wrote their rules and\n regulations.\n * supplied and installed the first repeater in Jordan, J-Y73, in 1973.\n * helped radio amateurs pioneer FM, radio Teletype, single sideband,\n and slow scan TV.\n * bounced amateur radio signals off the Moon from the big dish at the\n Arecibo Observatory, PR.\n * been editing and publishing amateur radio magazines for 47 years.\n * a state-of-the-art digital recording studio.\n * four record labels and produced over 150 CDs.\n * helped re-popularize ragtime music and personally knows all of the\n top ragtime performers.\n * started 25 successful publications in the radio, computer and music\n fields.\n * published over 100 books.\n * wrote one of the first books on digital communications.\n * been on an African hunting safari.\n * visited the ruins of Ba'albek in Lebanon, the Queen of Sheba's water\n catchments in Aden.\n * visited the Pyramids, the Sphynx. the ruins in Athens, the Taj Mahal\n and Katmandu.\n * visited the head-hunter longhouses in Sarawak.\n * helped organize and lead trade groups of around 250 people to yearly\n electronic shows in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong.\n * given keynote addresses to radio, educational, computer, and music\n conferences.\n * helped invent a new kind of loud speaker - borrowed $1,000 on my car\n to start a manufacturing company and within two and a half years it\n became the largest speaker manufacturer in the country with seven\n factories.\n * performed in The Mikado and Pirates of Penzance in high school\n * served as president of radio clubs in high school and college.\n * served in Navy 1942-1946 in WWII - electronic technician on USS Drum\n SS-228 (which is on display at Mobile, Alabama) for five war patrols.\n * been a radio engineer and announcer in North Carolina, Florida and\n Virginia.\n * been chief cameraman at WPIX-TV (11) in NYC.\n * produced and directed network TV shows in Dallas and Cleveland.\n * a reputation as a gourmet cook.\n * served as president of Porsche Club of America.\n * raced my Porsche on the Nurburgring and Solitude race tracks in\n Germany.\n * both driven and navigated in many national SCCA car rallies.\n * served as a founder and first secretary of American Mensa.\n * a Ph.D. in Entrepreneurial Science.\n * lectured on entrepreneurialism at Yale, Boston University, Case\n Western, Babson College, RPL and many other colleges.\n * been on the first commercial airline flight between Philadelphia and\n New York in 1927.\n * flown with father since 1922.\n * served on the FCC's National Industry Advisory Committee (NIAC).\n * served on the FCC's Long Range Planning Committee (LRPC).\n * testified before a Congressional hearing on the music industry.\n * had the usual toys: airplane, Porsche, yacht, Jaguar, Mercedes 600\n Pullman limosine.\n * worked on a Guggenheim grant on a color organ for the Guggenheim\n Museum on 5th Avenue.\n * graduated Bliss Electrical SchooL Tacoma Padc MD.\n * attended Radio Materiel School on Treasure Island, San Francisco and\n graduated as ETM2/c.\n * served for five war patrols on SS-228 USS Dnun, made ETMI/c.\n * taught electronics at Submarine School, New London CT.\n * organized and run successful mail order Elm Stamp Company at age 12.\n * sung in St. Pauls Church choir as boy soprano.\n * sung in Philharmonic Choir of Brooklyn.\n * sung in Erasmus High School Choral Club.\n * pioneered the 6-meter ham band as the first New York City station on\n that band.\n * run a 6-meter beacon station for several years in cooperation with\n the Radio Amateur Scientific Observations (RASO) program.\n * for years had a VHF/UHF station on Mt. Monadnock NH; regularly heard\n for over 600 miles.\n * been Excutive Secretary of the Music Research Foundation, Madison\n Avenue, N.Y.\n * worked for GE as a test engineer on Army radio equipment.\n * been an engineer at Airborne Instrument Laboratories in Mineola NY\n developing radar equip.\n * tried marijuana in 1948 to see what it was like.\n * tried LSD in 1960 to see what that was like.\n * drunk with shipmates on liberty while in the Navy. Have seldom drunk\n since.\n * tried smoking as a teenager, thought it was stupid. Ignored peer\n pressure.\n * know the real dope on Amelia Earhart's last trip.\n * been convinced that NASA had to have faked all of the moon landings.\n * driven from Brooklyn NY to Peterborough NH (250 miles), averaging\n 100 mph one night - including a gas stop.\n * interesting friends such as Barry Goldwater, King Hussein, Steve\n Jobs, Bill Gates, and Rod McKuen.\n * been convinced that with proper nutrition and avoiding poisons we\n can dependably live to over 100.\n * ridden Starlit Night, the Ringling Brothers top show horse.\n * a professorship of horsemanship and taught riding instructors.\n * a Hubbard Dianetic Auditor certificate and has processed over 100\n patients, with some remarkable successes.\n * swum the three mile length of Coney Island many times.\n * investigated crop circles and a UFO hovering over a house in nearby\n Francestown, NH.\n * drove a snowmobile 50 mph in the White Mountains of New Hampshire at\n age 82.\n * Other than all that I've been taking it easy and having a great time.\n\n Like myself, he was from Brooklyn, and he came over one evening - \nat the invitation of W2EEJ (Herb Greenberg, an engineer at WINS( 1010 \nKHz) ) and spoke with several of us at The Brooklyn\n Radio Club - in 1955, when he was the Editor of CQ Magazine. At \nthat time, I was a 15 yr old Novice, KN2LKJ.\n\n 73's Jim (N6MV)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n", "attachments": [] }