With deep sorrow and grief, we inform that our HAM friend Alexander Pashkov (UA9OA) has left us for the heavenly abode on 29th March 2015. Dearest Alex’s family, please accept our most heartfelt sympathies for your loss. Our thoughts are with you during this difficult time. Words cannot even begin to express our sorrow, you are in…
With deep sorrow and grief, we inform that our friend Yuri Lobatshev RL3DZ (ex UA0KCL) has left us for the heavenly abode on Tuesday, 19th August 2014. Dearest Yuri’s family, please accept our most heartfelt sympathies for your loss. Our thoughts are with you during this difficult time. Words cannot even begin to express our…
Max de Henseler, HB9RS, the founder and president emeritus of 4U1UN at United Nations headquarters in New York, died December 30. He was 80. A ham since 1955, de Henseler had been a short-wave listener since the late 1940s. In 1976, while in New York as the UN’s chief cartographer, de Henseler reactivated the United…
Tom Christian, who has died aged 77, was a great-great-great-grandson of the Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian and a leading citizen of Pitcairn, a tiny British island dependency in the Pacific with a current population of fewer than 50 people. Christian, one of the few Pitcairners of his generation to be educated abroad, became an internationally…
My HAM Friend Harold C.Steves (Hal) KL7HJD Passed away on 1 June 2012 in Roseburg / Oregon / USA. Photo by RW3AH (1991 Alaska, Anchorage) Photo by RW3AH (1991 Alaska, Anchorage) Photo by RW3AH (1991 Alaska, Anchorage) Harold “Hal” Carleton Steves, 87, was born September 28, 1924 in Columbia City, Oregon. Harold served as radarman…