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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/7F76U2NF5RGQAWNA73WD6LDNSRU3DGXG/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "7F76U2NF5RGQAWNA73WD6LDNSRU3DGXG", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/7F76U2NF5RGQAWNA73WD6LDNSRU3DGXG/", "sender": { "address": "n1uw (a) gokarns.com", "mailman_id": "684263b135e74eb98a4fed6b61b4c189", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/684263b135e74eb98a4fed6b61b4c189/emails/" }, "sender_name": "Frank Karnauskas", "subject": "[ans] ANS-221 ANS Special Bulletin Charter Member,\tPast AMSAT President William A. \"Bill\" Tynan, W3XO, SK", "date": "2018-08-10T01:34:16Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-221 SPECIAL BULLETIN: Charter Member, Past AMSAT President \nWilliam A. \"Bill\" Tynan, W3XO, SK\n\nThe AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor-\nmation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite\nCorporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space\nincluding reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur\nRadio operators who share an active interest in designing, building,\nlaunching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio\nsatellites.\n\nThe news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur\nRadio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to:\nans-editor at amsat.org.\n\nIn this edition:\n\n* Charter Member, Past AMSAT President William A. \"Bill\" Tynan, \n W3XO, SK\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-221.01\nANS-221 SPECIAL AMSAT News Service Bulletin\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 221.01\n>From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nAugust 9, 2018\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-221.01\n\nCharter Member, Past AMSAT President William A. \"Bill\" Tynan, W3XO, SK\n\nIt is with great sadness that AMSAT reports one of its founding\ndirectors and charter members, William A. (Bill) Tynan, W3XO, passed\naway peacefully at his home on Tierra Linda Ranch in Kerrville Texas,\non August 7, 2018. He was 91.\n\nBill was born October 12, 1926 in Saint Paul, Ramsey County,\nMinnesota. But, throughout his adult, life, he left an indelible\nmark on Amateur Radio with a long list of \"firsts\" since becoming\nlicensed as W3KMV in early 1946. Indeed, Bill was in the forefront of\nAmateur Radio's growth and importance in many ways. His singularly\ndistinctive accomplishments to our Amateur Radio Service were, quite\nliterally, \"out of this world.\"\n\nHis active Amateur Radio interest really began in the mid-30s when\nhe was a young boy. During the Second World War, and after obtaining\na Restricted Radio Telephone Permit, he operated in the War Emergency\nRadio Service (WERS), donating his time to the effort to the citizens\nof Montgomery County, Maryland and, later, to the District of\nColumbia by operating WERS systems on 2 1/2 meter VHF (then called\nUHF). Of course, this occurred during a time when all Amateur Radio\nactivity had been suspended for the duration of the War.\n\nHis wartime activity would later spark his interest in the\nfrequencies above 30 MHz, and he became an active VHF/UHF enthusiast\nalmost since obtaining his first Ham ticket. However, it was his\nwork in helping others exploit the VHF/UHF spectrum that best\ncharacterized Bill's numerous accomplishments and contributions to\nAmateur Radio.\n\nFor example, in early 1969, Bill attended the charter meeting in\nWashington, DC to investigate the feasibility of carrying on the work\nof Project OSCAR, a group of West Coast Hams that had built and\nlaunched the very first satellites carrying Amateur Radio. The\nmeeting later led to the establishment of today's Radio Amateur\nSatellite Corporation (AMSAT). Bill was elected to the first Board of\nDirectors of the new organization, and was later named Vice President\nfor Operations.\n\nBill performed yeoman service in this position during the OSCAR 6\nera, principally because that particular satellite had a nasty habit\nof unexpectedly changing operating modes \"on its own\". Bill's superb\nefforts coordinated the work of dozens of worldwide command stations\nto keep OSCAR 6 (then the only OSCAR satellite in orbit) up and\nrunning for the world's Amateur Radio Operators to use. His\noutstanding work allowed critical Amateur Radio propagation and other\nexperiments, as well as other, more routine communications, to\ncontinue virtually unabated. His singular efforts extended use of a\ncritical, space-based experimental Amateur Radio resource that\notherwise would have been given up for lost.\n\nLater, Bill's strong reputation for getting things done, and his\nexpertise as a leading expert in the VHF/UHF arena, led to a request\nfrom the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) that he assume duties as\nContributing Editor for QST Magazine's \"World above 50 MHz\" column. \nUnder his superb guidance, and during the next 18 years, Bill kept\nthe column both fresh and alive, while providing Hams worldwide with\na powerful forum to advocate and nurture such new Amateur Radio\ntechnologies as long-haul VHF/UHF, moonbounce, DX and contest work,\nas well as emerging meteor scatter and satellite communications.\n\nHowever, while Bill Tynan's first love was VHF and UHF work, his\nheart and soul were always with AMSAT. Not surprisingly, it is with\nAMSAT that Bill's positive impacts on Ham Radio were destined to\nbecome some of his longest lasting contributions to our Service.\n\nFor example, since his earliest days in AMSAT, Bill was intrigued\nwith the possibility of Hams on the ground being able to talk to Hams\nin space. Later, in the mid-1970's, he actively explored the idea of\nAmateur Radio operation from aboard the Skylab space station while\nOwen Garriott, W5LFL, was to be a part of that crew. Unfortunately,\nNASA did not approve this proposal, stating that it was too late to\nmodify the station to provide for an antenna.\n\nHowever, later, as the Shuttle program was beginning (and on behalf\nof AMSAT) Bill authored the very first draft proposal to allow\nAmateur Radio operation from the Space Shuttle. His idea was soon\npicked up by the ARRL, and it resulted in a formal, joint AMSAT/ARRL\nproposal to NASA to allow this activity. Needless to say, Bill's\nsuperb vision led directly to Owen Garriott's historic first use of\nHam Radio from space during the STS-9 mission, thus marking the birth\nof the (then) very popular SAREX program.\n\nIn 1986, Bill was again elected to the AMSAT Board of Directors,\nand, in 1991, just as the Phase 3D project (which later became AMSAT-\nOSCAR 40 on orbit) was beginning to gain momentum, Bill assumed\nduties as President of the organization at a most critical period in\nits history. As with his previous callings, Bill wasted no time in\nmaking his lasting mark on the organization. As one of his first\nefforts, he was instrumental in pulling a team of over two hundred\nvolunteer people from 13 different countries together with the common\ngoal of building and launching the largest, most complex, and most\nexpensive Amateur Radio satellite ever attempted. When he finally\nstepped down from his post as AMSAT President in late 1998, his\nrepeated, annual re-election to this high post made his one of the\nlongest running terms as President in the organization's history.\n\nIn addition to his solid accomplishments in furthering Amateur\nRadio, Bill remained a very active Radio Amateur. He was a life\nmember of the ARRL, a life member of AMSAT (membership number 10),\nand was an active member of the Central States VHF Society, also\nserving on its Board of Directors. He was its President in 1992 and\nput on the organization's annual conference that year. Bill was also\na member of the Quarter Century Wireless Association, the Radio Club\nof America, the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers\n(IEEE) as well as the National Space Society. Locally, he was the\nProgram Chairman of the Hill Country Amateur Radio Club at his home\non the Terra Linda Ranch in Kerrville, Texas and also served on the\nranch's Cable TV advisory committee.\n\nDuring his lifetime, Bill also received several prestigious awards,\nincluding \"The Ham of Year\" in 1996 from the Dayton Amateur Radio\nAssociation (DARA) and in 2012, the Barry Goldwater Amateur Radio\nAward from the Radio Club of America.\n\nBill is survived by his wife of 51 years, the former Mattie LeNoir\nof Kilgore Texas, along with numerous cousins, brothers and sisters-\nin-law. No services will be held. However, his ashes will be\nscattered in two locations, the cemetery in Elgin, Texas where his\nwife will be interred and the cemetery in Hagersville, Ontario,\nCanada which is his mother's birthplace, and where his parents are\nburied. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be\nmade in his name to the charity of your choice.\n\nStatement of AMSAT President Joe Spier, K6WAO, on the passing of\nBill Tynan, W3XO:\n\nI can only second the many comments and condolences that are coming\nin from around the world on the passing of Bill Tynan, W3XO. From the\nmany remembrances of Bill's past accomplishments, it is clear that\nAMSAT and amateur radio has lost a dear friend.\n\nFriend is an important way to honor Bill. Bill was a friend to\nAMSAT, a friend to ARISS, a friend to the ARRL, a friend to amateur\nradio, a friend to his community, and lifelong friend to his dear\nwife, Mattie. Bill's friendship extended to me when I became AMSAT\nPresident. After hearing me present on some subject, I received a\nthree page treatise from Bill on the proper use of the pronoun \"me.\"\nHis keen ear had picked up on my error, and the improvement came in a\npaper titled \"What's the Matter with Me?\"\n\nBill had a way of looking at issues from a different perspective.\nLast October's Board of Directors meeting was in the middle of a\n\"heated\" discussion on the verbiage of a proposal, when Bill walked\nin and sat down. After another 15 minutes of discussion, further\ndiscussion on the proposal was tabled until the following day. Bill's\ncomment after listening to all this was \"Wow, sounds just like the\nboard meetings we use to have 40 years ago!\"\n\nRecently, Bill asked to step down as the AMSAT OSCAR Number\nAdministrator. Bill has been granting applicants who qualify OSCAR\nnumbers for over two decades, since the late-1990s. Even Bill could\nnot remember the first number he issued, but he believed it was\neither TO-31 or SO-35. In any case, Bill had issued at least 57 OSCAR\nnumbers. This is over 60%, or very close to two-thirds, of all the\nOSCAR numbers currently issued at this time.\n\nBill liked to keep busy with his passion for amateur radio, whether\nthis was working in the foreground or background. Only a few weeks\nago, Bill proposed to AMSAT the use of FT-8 as a digital mode on a\nfuture satellite. My friend, Bill Tynan, W3XO, was always thinking\nahead.\nAd astra.\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT the above information.]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n/EX\n\nIn addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the\nPresident's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining\ndonors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi-\ntional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT\nOffice.\n\nPrimary and secondary school students are eligible for membership\nat one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students\nenrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the stu-\ndent rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status.\nContact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership\ninformation.\n\n73,\nThis week's ANS Editor,\nFrank Karnauskas, N1UW\nn1uw at amsat dot org\n\n", "attachments": [] }