Did I read this correctly "The Late Fred Deeg"? I hope not. That's weird because over the past three days I have been thinking about him. I wondered how he was doing as I have not talked to him in years. I looked up N6FD on Goggle and found Fred Deeg and associate out in Anacortes, WA (My old stomping grounds).I was surprised to see that he had been in business out there for over twenty years now.
I learned almost everything I know about being a "repeater mogul" from Fred Deeg. Every Saturday morning I would look forward to the time spent at the "Crusty old mans repeater group - My alternate smart-ass name for Fred and all of his old friends of the HAMS repeater club" (Hilltop Armature Masteries System) at Fred's Garage in Marina Del Rey, California. I was a young smart-ass kid with little or no respect for him or his group. I didn't even have a ham radio licensee but I monitored all of the time and his repeaters sounded so clean. He got though to me BIG-TIME by his no BS attitude. They were building the new replacement 440 repeater for Saddle Peak. I learned everything from those Saturday sessions. I got my ticket and joined his repeater club and used that repeater and eventually bought the old Motorola Micor that our Saturday sessions work eventually replaced. It included my first RC-850 controller I was in heaven. I bought all of his old MX-340's as well before he moved up to Washington. He didn't like me very much at the end because of my affiliation with a certain "renegade" 2Meter repeater here in Los Angeles but I never forgot him or how much he thought me about great sounding and a really well engineered and reliable repeater system. We all do have a common interest in this repeater building stuff and no matter what the rest of our lives and backgrounds are and how much like or don't like each other we still have that in common. Jeff Jurenka KD6GDB --- In [email protected], Mike Morris WA6ILQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:43 PM 3/25/05, Tony King, W4ZT wrote: > > >Ladies and Gentlemen (I wonder how many ladies read this list), > > > >Confrontation in a forum such as this causes one thing, a loss of good > >expertise. Please, let's just settle down and take things a little less > >seriously and try not to flame one another for statements that may be > >our view point from where ever we are and what ever we do. > > > >Kevin is perfectly capable of handling this list and doesn't need ANY of > >us telling him what to do or how to do it. His options do not just > >include ejection but they may also include moderation. No one wants to > >be moderated but when someone has a case of diarrhea of the mouth, it > >might be what they need. I hope that if I get that way that is what he > >will do to me. Let Kevin decide whether or not he needs to do something > >and when. This is not a democracy. > > The late Fred Deeg N6FD / K6AEH / K3VPF coined a term that Bill > Pasternak WA6ITF and I used in the FM & Repeaters book: "Benevolent > Dictator". That term fits well here. > > Mike Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
