It is with much sadness that I report the passing of Den Connors, KD2S at 2AM this morning. Den passed on after a year+ fight to conquer lymphoma. This morning, Ralph (KD1SM) reported "Den checked-in to our weekly Club information net on 70cm Monday evening. As usual, he sounded pretty chipper."
"Very shortly after that he developed a serious infection and his non-existent immune system could do nothing."
Den was TAPR's first president, overseeing the transition from a local Tucson club into the multi-national TAPR. He was a major sponsor of the adoption of AX.25 as the amateur packet standard. Under his lead, TAPR introduced the TNC-1 and then later the TNC-2. Den worked with me to define an amateur store-and-forward packet radio satellite; this morphed into the Microsats (AO16-16, IO-26. AO-27 & MO-30).
Den moved to Massachusetts about 25 years ago to work at Wang Computers, and lived in Pepperell, Massachusetts.
73, Den -- you will be missed by all your friends!
Tom Clark, K3IO