[Elecraft] A little theory

[Howard Hoyt]

On 4/16/2017 8:15 PM, elecraft-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:

> My greatest treasure however was meeting Doug De Maw
I will agree with that statement, Doug was a hero of mine when I was in 
High School learning electronics and ham radio, I always looked forward 
to his articles which taught me so much.  And when our high school radio 
club had the pleasure of a field trip to Newington Doug DeMaw was 
actually there that day, and it was an honor to meet the man who could 
describe esoteric circuitry clearly enough so this dumb teenager could 
understand it.  I felt like some of the joy went out of ham radio when 
he passed in 1997.

Interestingly enough as a college DJ at WMUA-FM, at UMASS Amherst, MA  
in the late 1970's, and by total happenstance at a concert I met his son 
Dave (Douglas David) N8HLE, who was a writer and an awesome DJ at 
WWUH-FM, at the University of Hartford, CT.  I introduced myself to him 
as a fellow DJ, and the second thing I said was that I was a ham and his 
Dad was a hero of mine, and he said "Mine too!" Dave was one of the 
nicest guys you could imagine, and went out of his way to call me years 
later when I was doing DJ shifts on WXYC - UNC Chapel Hill, NC and 
compliment the show and talk music...I stayed in touch with him on and 
off until his own untimely death in 2011.

Doug DeMaw was one of the greats in ham radio, and judging by his son, a 
great father as well, W1FB indeed. :'(

Howie - WA4PSC