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 Special Bulletin 11  ARLX011From ARRL Headquarters
 Newington CT  December 2, 2019To all radio amateurs 
SB SPCL ARL ARLX011ARLX011 Past ARRL Chief Technology Officer Paul Rinaldo, W4RI (SK)
A titan of Amateur Radio, past ARRL Chief Technology Officer Paul L.Rinaldo, W4RI, of Burke, Virginia, died on November 29 after aperiod of failing health. An ARRL Life Member, Rinaldo was 88.
"This is really sad news," ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR,remarked upon learning of Rinaldo's passing. "I worked with Paul ona number of things, and he amazed me with his knowledge and thedifferent ways to consider issues. Smart. Highly respected. He surehelped us through the years in so many ways."
First licensed in 1949 as W9IZA (he also held W3FFH and K4YKB overthe years), Rinaldo's focus was always in the arena of technicalexperimentation. He studied radio engineering at ValparaisoTechnical Institute in Indiana. Rinaldo was a cofounder and servedas president of the Amateur Radio Research and DevelopmentCorporation (AMRAD). His first association with ARRL was an article,"Amateur Radio in the Computer Age," for the September 1979 editionof QST. Subsequently, he served in volunteer roles, among them asthe first editor of QEX: The ARRL Experimenters' Exchange.
In 1983, Rinaldo succeeded Doug DeMaw, W1FB, as ARRL TechnicalDepartment Manager and Senior Technical Editor. His efforts led tohis appointment as Publications Manager and, 5 years later, asManager of Technical Development with responsibility for preparingfor the 1992 World Administrative Radio Conference. This led toRinaldo's supporting role in the International Amateur Radio Union(IARU), and he attended IARU Administrative Council (AC) meetingsfrom 1996 to 2008, serving on several occasions as recordingsecretary.
"Paul's presence at the AC meetings was never simply clerical andwas primarily to allow the AC to tap his unique expertise," IARUSecretary David Sumner, K1ZZ, noted. Rinaldo also took part inseveral International Telecommunication Union (ITU) conferences andserved on numerous working parties and task groups. Sumner saidamateur radio's successes at the just-ended WRC-19 were, in largepart, because of Rinaldo's good work over the years.
In 1992, Rinaldo established ARRL's Technical Relations Office inthe Washington, DC, area, which expanded as preparations for WorldRadiocommunication Conferences became an ongoing need. In 2004, theARRL Board of Directors elected Rinaldo as ARRL's first ChiefTechnology Officer, a post he held until his retirement in 2008."For the past 16 years, Paul has been the face and voice of amateurradio in the technical circles of the federal government and one ofour most visible representatives at the ITU," Sumner said at thetime.
"We all had enormous respect for Paul and what he brought to IARU,"IARU Region 1 President Don Beattie, G3BJ, commented. "People withhis breadth of knowledge and experience, and the ability to apply itin a sensitive way, are all too rare."
Rinaldo was a board member of the United States ITU Association anda Life Senior Member of the IEEE. He also served on the IEEE-USACommittee on Communications Policy.
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