All,

this is indeed very sad ... last time I was in touch with John was about 1 year ago when he posted a request for contributions for the Sounds from Space collection in Radcom.

Also at that time he even extracted himself some old recordings from his old files and sent them to me.

He was very kind and we certainly will miss him.

Dear John, rest in peace.

Matthias DD1US

www.dd1us.de

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von andy thomas Gesendet: Samstag, 16. Februar 2013 12:51 An: amsat Betreff: [amsat-bb] John Heath G7HIA, SK

All,   this is very hard to write, but his family has just told me that my good friend John Heath, G7HIA succumbed to cancer and passed away last night. They asked me to tell his amateur radio friends here and I know that amsat-uk have also been told.   I'l leave it to others to complete his obituary, but I will always remember his passion for satellites and the cosmos, his patience in explaining and teaching others, his companionship and friendship, and our various contacts particularly with Russia.   andy G0SFJ _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

I have been deeply hurt by the death of John. I know him for a very long time and I highly respected him. We had so many good and fruitful discussions about telemetry and analysis of data. As Andy said, with his good contacts to the Russians he was a very important person for us. He built a bridge between the russian radio amateurs and our communities. And he built a bridge between young people who are interested in amateur radio. May he rest in peace.

I wish to express my deepest condolences to his family.

Farewell John.

Mike DK3WN

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von andy thomas Gesendet: Samstag, 16. Februar 2013 12:51 An: amsat Betreff: [amsat-bb] John Heath G7HIA, SK

All,   this is very hard to write, but his family has just told me that my good friend John Heath, G7HIA succumbed to cancer and passed away last night. They asked me to tell his amateur radio friends here and I know that amsat-uk have also been told.   I'l leave it to others to complete his obituary, but I will always remember his passion for satellites and the cosmos, his patience in explaining and teaching others, his companionship and friendship, and our various contacts particularly with Russia.   andy G0SFJ _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

I worked him twice, back in '93 via AO-13 Mode-B, SSB. I gave him a 58 each time. (My reports weren't so good!) Our first contact was a brief one, on the first weekend I ever operated satellite. The bird was crowded and I didn't really know what I was doing. The second QSO later in the year was a bit more of a ragchew.

I'm looking at his QSL card right now.

Please QSP condolences to the family from this DX station.

On 02/16/2013 07:51 AM, andy thomas wrote:

All,

this is very hard to write, but his family has just told me that my good friend John Heath, G7HIA succumbed to cancer and passed away last night. They asked me to tell his amateur radio friends here and I know that amsat-uk have also been told.

I'l leave it to others to complete his obituary, but I will always remember his passion for satellites and the cosmos, his patience in explaining and teaching others, his companionship and friendship, and our various contacts particularly with Russia.

andy G0SFJ _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb

AMSAT-UK is very saddened by the passing of John Heath, G7HIA. He was a long standing member of AMSAT-UK, and contributed to the amateur space programme in many ways during his lifetime.

John was a regular attendee at the annual AMSAT-UK Colloquia for many years and he enjoyed meeting up with his friends who shared his passion for satellites and space. Sadly his ill heath in recent years prevented his attendance.

In the days before his passing, John was in contact with AMSAT-UK; and made a significant financial contribution to the FUNcube project. He chose to do this by making the donation via the Radio Communication Foundation, which, as a registered charity will be able to claim any income tax paid by John as Gift Aid. The size of his donation is very considerable, and will be used at the discretion of the AMSAT-UK committee. Such is the extent of his generosity, that it may be feasible to consider the construction of a further complete CubeSat.

AMSAT-UK is very grateful for this donation.

John will be sadly missed by all members of AMSAT-UK who knew him during his life, and we send our condolences to his family.

RIP, John

Jim Heck G3WGM Hon Sec AMSAT-UK