Ron Parsons, W5RKN SK
I regret to inform the satellite community that our good friend, who many of us relied on for advice, or a new grid square, passed away on Tuesday, April 19th at the age of 84. Not long ago I recall he earned the distinction of Grid Master and had been an active member of AMSAT for decades. He was instrumental in arranging for at least two ARISS contacts with Austin, TX schools and wrote an important paper on Doppler shift that has been referenced on countless occasions. Ron also was a strong advocate for the use of SDR equipment for satellite communications and had recently contributed, along with co-authors, a number of articles on related subjects to the AMSAT Journal. I am sure that he will be greatly missed by many of us. Donations in his name and memory can be made to any charity.
73 Rick, W2JAZ
Geez, I had many QSOs with Ron, with the latest just last Sunday on RS-44 FT4 where he could frequently be found.
Ron will be missed.
Craig N6RSX
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Sorry to hear about Ron's passing.
Ron was a member of the FlexRadio Alpha team as well and his input on Alpha releases of SmartSDR and how it worked for the Amsat world will be missed. He has helped many a FlexRadio user with their setup. As well, he provided much feedback to the engineering team.
I had just had a l long conversation with him 2 weeks ago about an Amsat project. So, this comes as a big shock to me.
RIP Ron. Many thanks for all your contributions to the hobby. You will be missed.
Mike va3mw
On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 1:33 PM D. Craig Fox DCFox@rwglaw.com wrote:
Geez, I had many QSOs with Ron, with the latest just last Sunday on RS-44 FT4 where he could frequently be found.
Ron will be missed.
Craig
N6RSX
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I, too, am very sad to hear of Ron’s passing. We had many good QSOs, and conversations. Our experiments with digital modes were fun and Ron did a great job of putting much of the resulting AMSAT article together.
During our conversations we discovered that we had been at Northeastern University at the same time during the ‘60’s. He was a post-doc, while I was a grad student. Unfortunately, our paths did not cross during that time.
Condolences to his family and to his “ham radio family”. We are all missing him. RIP, my friend.
Carlos
W7QL
From: Michael Walker [mailto:va3mw@portcredit.net] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2022 12:53 PM To: D. Craig Fox Cc: Amsat BB Subject: [AMSAT-BB] Re: Ron Parsons, W5RKN SK
Sorry to hear about Ron's passing.
Ron was a member of the FlexRadio Alpha team as well and his input on Alpha releases of SmartSDR and how it worked for the Amsat world will be missed. He has helped many a FlexRadio user with their setup. As well, he provided much feedback to the engineering team.
I had just had a l long conversation with him 2 weeks ago about an Amsat project. So, this comes as a big shock to me.
RIP Ron. Many thanks for all your contributions to the hobby. You will be missed.
Mike va3mw
On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 1:33 PM D. Craig Fox DCFox@rwglaw.com wrote:
Geez, I had many QSOs with Ron, with the latest just last Sunday on RS-44 FT4 where he could frequently be found.
Ron will be missed.
Craig
N6RSX
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