THIS IS SAD NEWS indeed. My heartfelt thoughts and prayers go out to Art's family and friends.
Many of us in the greater D.C. area recognize Art's selfless support of our local annual AMSAT meetings too. Art was an experimenter. He always seemed to be tweaking and testing some hardware or software thing having to do with Amateur Radio in general or in Amateur Satellites in particular.
I could count on Art to offer a top-notch presentation in many a spring time meeting.
Sincerely,
Pat Kilroy N8PK AMSAT Area Coordinator Greater MDC Area
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- SK: Art Goldman. N3OY (Tom Clark, K3IO)
Message: 1 Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:28:20 -0400 From: "Tom Clark, K3IO" [email protected] Subject: [amsat-dc] SK: Art Goldman. N3OY To: AMSAT BB [email protected], AMSAT-DC [email protected] Message-ID: [email protected] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
It is with great sadness that I learned of the recent passing of Art Goldman, N3OY (formerly WA3CVG). Art was 67 and succumbed to melanoma. Information is at http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bal-md.ob.ci.goldman05aug05,0,70....
Art was very active in CARA (Columbia Amateur Radio Association) and was an AMSAT Life Member. Art often handled the satellite Field Day effort at W3AO(see http://www.arrl.org/contests/soapbox/?con_id=133&call=W3AO http://www.arrl.org/contests/soapbox/?con_id=133&call=W3AO for 2006 pictures. W3AO is the 19 xmtr multi-multi joint effort of CARA & PVRC).
Art lived in Columbia which has severe antenna limits. Despite this, he managed to get on AO-40 using BBQ dish antennas. He show up frequently in the AMSAT-BB archives. Art was also very active in the packet radio world in the 80's & 90's. Art (with NG6Q) developed the TCP/IP driver for the Eagle Computer card (Zilog 8530) for KA9Q's NOS. .
A personal remembrance: Rick Hambly (W2GPS), Bob McGwier (N4HY)& I remember fondly the 8-hour x 2-way "captive audience" trip to/from Dayton a few years ago. Despite Art's New York Jewish roots, he knew every country & western song every made. What with McGwier hailing from redneck Alabama, the trip was hilarious. I particularly remember the two singing to Toby Keith's hit C&W song "I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was!" (complete lyrics are at http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/keith-toby/as-good-as-i-once-was-15917.ht...).
73 Art -- you are missed!
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