Pete W1LAB, and Willy W1SYE are aboard Goblin today running alongside several lighthouses between Cuttyhunk Island and Martha’s Vineyard.
Funeral services for John will be held at the Portsmouth United Methodist Church Sunday September 16th with visitation starting at 3 pm, and the actual funeral service at 4 PM.
The service is open to the public.
Many of you know that our W1SYE repeater went off the air during the storms of last Friday Aug 10th. Various remote attempts to restore operation were not successful.
Paul N1PSX (who, when not working for Amazon, or RI ARES, is one of the gurus behind the KA1RCI/NB1RI network), volunteered to go to the site to see what the problem was. He reports that a simple power cycle did not do the trick, but removing several of the plug in cards, spraying DeOxit on the contacts, and reseating them, did.
Our thanks to Paul for getting things working again!
NCRC Clubmate, Peter, KB1ZMO, is a silent key as of May 25, 2018.
As reported by John Mills.
Peter was Navy pilot and commercial pilot for Mohawk Airlines
He lived in Little Compton for 20+ years and was an accountant.
KB1ZMO was active on HF nets and had joined NCRC about 4 years ago.
It is with great sadness that we report the passing lifetime member James W Kyle, KC1SD.
Jim has a long history of service to his country and his community. His love of Amateur Radio was obvious to all who knew him.
A memorial will be held on Saturday, June 30, 2018, at 2 pm at the First Presbyterian Church, 4 Everett Street, Newport, RI
Jim was a mentor to many and was an early STEM educator when the term was not even created. His willingness to share the knowledge he accumulated in his 92 years was an inspiration. He taught radio science in local schools and found a way to do it even without a teaching certificate.
His long history in underwater sound transmission and military systems had him leading the engineering department at the Navy’s New London Sound Laboratory and he later moved to Newport when the Lab was combined with the Naval Underwater Systems Center and now NUWC.
Jim was a lifelong sailor and cruised Vineyard Sound and beyond with his family and members of Ida Lewis Yacht Club.
He will also be missed at the Atria home where he resided because he led the garden club and was an active member of his church choir until recently. Of course, he had an off-center fed dipole there, an antenna design that he studied and championed.
His pride in his family and their talents was never far from his lips.