I just read this very sad news on the ARRL web page:
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http://www.arrl.org/news/view/james-mclaughlin-wa2ewe-t6af-killed-by-afghan-pilot
James McLaughlin, WA2EWE/T6AF, was one of several killed in Kabul,
Afghanistan on Wednesday, April 27. News sources say that eight American
troops and a US contractor died Wednesday after an Afghan military pilot
opened fire during a meeting in an operations room of the Afghan Air
Corps at the Kabul airport -- the deadliest episode to date of an Afghan
turning against his coalition partners, officials with the NATO-led
International Security Assistance Force (ISF) in Afghanistan said.
Licensed since 1972, McLaughlin was a career US military officer. Bob
Magnani, K6QXY, told the ARRL that McLaughlin was just in the US a week
ago, visiting his family: "His son Adam, KD6POE, works for me. He told
me that his dad had been in Afghanistan and Iraq many times over the
past few years, most currently serving as a flight instructor.”
McLaughlin posted on his qrz.com page that “almost every day, I operate
at around 1230 - 1430 UTC. Sometimes I am QRV until around 1500 UTC.” As
of March 26, 2011, he had logged 4359 QSOs, most of them on RTTY and
PSK. -- Thanks to Russ Bentson, K6KLY, CNN and Fox News for the information
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73,
John, K9MM
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