[Fists] Ted Tate. 100 years old, FISTS member Silent Key

[David J. Ring, Jr.]

* Ted Tate, K6YN, SK: Wireless and ham radio veteran Theodore H "Ted" Tate,
K6YN, of W Covina, California, died March 1. He was 100. An ARRL member,
Tate remained an active CW operator, keeping regular on-air schedules, until
his health declined last summer. Tate's radio history goes back to the early
1920s, when he served as a Navy radio operator in the China Sea using a
spark-gap transmitter. In the years leading up to World War II, Tate worked
for the FCC at a monitoring post in the Pacific. After the war, he became
involved in a commercial enterprise that used CW to relay messages between
customers' locations. He also once was an operator at a commercial maritime
station in Ohio, communicating with ships on the Great Lakes. He belonged to
the ARRL, the A-1 Operator Club, F.I.S.T.S. and the USS Wisconsin Radio
Club.

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Ted was quite active on the 7020 kHz trans-USA rag chew net, which used to 
be run by the legendary  Bus Etheridge, K4IX until his death several years 
ago.  Bus used a Vibroplex Presentation to conduct the net, and bequethed 
this bug to Ted who used it on the air after Bus became a SK.

We will miss you OT, now you have earned a "Solid Gold Vibroplex" in Heaven.

73

David Ring, N1EA
Member 7020 kHz group
FISTS, SOWP, VWOA, ARRL-LM