Yes, so sorry to say, he has passed on.
April QST, Silent Key Column - page 96 ... I called his widow Marsha to confirm. Todays NewsLine has a writeup on it. I have enclosed it for you ... wa6itf wrote: > > Amateur Radio Newsline� Report 1441 - March 25th, 2005 ... snip ... > ** > > THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD: FRED DEEG, N6FD - S.K. > > Anyone who was licensed in the 1960's and 70's when the first > off-shore ham gear started to show up in the U-S market may well > remember the name Fred Deeg and the call sign N6FD. Fred, the former > K6AEH, was among the very first to represent radio giants like > Standard, Kokosai and Yaesu. He was responsible for bringing the > first Standard Radio built ham radio band only 2 meter H-T to the > United Sates in the late 1960's. And it was during his tenure > Yaesu that he coined the advertising catch phrase "The Radio." > This is a term that Yaesu's current parent corporation -- > Vertex-Standard -- still occasionally uses in some advertising today. > > Fred was also an FM and repeater pioneer in the Los Angeles area. > Back in the 1960's with the Pallisades Amateur Radio Club of Culver > Citry, he helped to establish the famed 146.61 MHz system that he > nick-named the "good-guy machine." And in the 1980's he put together > the Ham Master Tie System which was one of the nations earliest 220 > MHz interlinked repeater networks. He also helped to organize the > funding for the California deligation that flew to Washington for the > meeting that lead the FCC to do away with much of the restrictive > repeater over-regulation of the middle-1970's. > > A few years ago, Fred retired. He and his wife Marsha, WA6CUF, > retired to Anacortes, Washington where Fred died on Christmas Day, > 2004, after succumbing to cancer of the esophagus. It was not until > the curerent issue of QST carried his name and call in the Silent Keys > column that his friends world-wide learned of his passing. Fred was > only age 60 and will be missed. (WA6KLA, K7VC, WA6ILQ, others) > > ** BTW, I looked you up on www.qrz.com a few minutes ago "KD6GDB ... Not listed by QRZ" just to see where you are located. I was a member of the original Palisades ARC many years ago ... before I relocated to Oregon in 1976. Fred built the original 146.61 MHz in / 147.33 MHz out repeater (later became the 146.01/146.61 MHz). He built the first repeater out of Motorola tube receiver and transmitter strips from my garage. That was way before the club bought the new (then) Motorola Micor repeater. 73, Neil McKie - WA6KLA Jeff wrote: > > 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! 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