Before ya blow yer gasket here is absolute truth .. I have a cousin with same Full name ! only he was born in Ohio & me in Michigan doesn't that really blow your mind !
Mark Holman mark.holman at talkamerica dot net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 1:11 AM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Digests and stuff (THE LATE FRED DEEG?) Ya Fred Loyde (I think thats how you spell the webmaster name of QRZ.com) and I had a falling out and I asked him to DE-LIST me. If you click on the FCC info button it will take you to the FCC database on me there you find me located in Santa Monica, CA. --- In [email protected], Neil McKie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 NewslineT 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! Groups Links Yahoo! 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