[Antennas] Jerry Sevick

[AI4WM]

Very sad.  Ham radio looses one of its greats.  However, he will live on
through his publications and work.



On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Tom Horton <k5iid at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Fellow hams,
>
> Jerry Sevick, W2FMI, one of ham radio's great technical contributors, has
> passed away.
>
> I received word from his family that Jerry died peacefully this past Sunday
> at the age of 90. I have known Jerry since 1995 while arranging for
> continued publication of his classic book, Transmission Line Transformers,
> after the ARRL decided not to do so. I was honored to be his collaborator
> on
> the current edition of that book, and the editor of several magazine
> articles and other manuscripts.
>
> Jerry embodied the old-fashioned amateur spirit of innovation by
> experiment,
> applying his many years of experience as a Bell Labs researcher to a
> retirement project analyzing the performance of short vertical antennas.
> That work led him to the study of transmission line transformers, for which
> he became well-known in both the ham and professional radio engineering
> communities. He brought a little-known piece of technology to the
> forefront,
> and worried until the end whether enough people understood the principles
> behind the operation of these devices.
>
> An excerpt from his obituary:
>
> "...Jerry was a graduate of Wayne State University and a member of their
> Athletic Hall of Fame. He was drafted by both the Chicago Bears and Detroit
> Lions, but did not play professional football. He served as a pilot in the
> US Army Air Corps in WWII. He graduated from Harvard University, with a
> doctorate in Applied Physics.
>
> Jerry taught at Wayne State University and worked as the local weather
> forecaster at WXYZ TV in Detroit. He worked for Bell Laboratories in Murray
> Hill, NJ and retired as the Director of Technical Relations. An avid Ham
> radio operator (W2FMI), Jerry was renowned for his research and
> publications
> related to short vertical antennas and transmission line transformers..."
>
> Rest in Peace, Jerry,
>
> Gary Breed
> K9AY
>
>
>
> "If It Weren't For The United States Military There Would Be NO United
> States of America ."
>
> September 11, 2001
> We can never, never forget !
> If we aren't free and alive,
> absolutely nothing else matters !
>
>
> Tom Horton K5IID
> Hillsboro, TX
>
>
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-- 
73,
Bill
AI4WM