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[Sarge USA RET]

Nice to see another Amateur using a BC-610!

Regards, Robert "Bob" Bethman
N0DGN

On 4/20/2019 4:40 PM, Todd, KA1KAQ wrote:
> 'GMS posted it on 'fone yesterday but I missed it until today.
>
> Obit is posted here:
>
> https://www.hooperfuneralchapel.com/notices/Joseph-Cro
>
> Great choice of photo!
>
> Joe was a wonderful guy who would give you the shirt off his back or bend
> over backward to help you if he could. I recall a decade or so back he was
> looking for some 199 tubes for an old radio he was trying to get going so I
> sent him a pair. He asked if there was anything I was looking for in
> exchange. I said no, but if he saw any of the older 810s with the red
> pyroglazed RCA emblems on them to please let me know.
>
> Some weeks or months later a bunch of us were gathered at the home of
> KB3AHE (also SK) for the post-Timonium AM pharty. Joe came over and tugged
> at my sleeve and motioned for me to follow him outside. There he handed me
> a box with 2 beautiful pyroglazed RCA 810s neatly wrapped inside. They now
> reside in my 300G.
>
> God bless and watch over Joe; he was indeed a kind soul. He has good
> company at the big AM station in the sky, preceded earlier this week by Big
> Al Koepke/K1JCL. Al used to operate a 6m AM repeater in CT and was big into
> homebrewing large transmitters.
>
> ~ Todd/KAQ