[HCRA] Yardley Beers - W0JF - sk

[Steve Rodowicz]

FYI


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Subject: 	GB> Yardley Beers - W0JF - sk
Date: 	Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:21:56 -0600
From: 	William Colbert <w5xe at juno.com>
To: 	glowbugs at piobaire.mines.uidaho.edu, qrp-l at mailman.qth.net

Some on the list might remember Mr Beers - I used to follow his
writings in the pubs - glowbug and qrp type.  And numerous
antenna writings.

Ray, W5XE
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*Yardley Beers, W0JF, SK* (Oct 21, 2005) -- Yardley Beers, W0JF
(ex-W3AWH, W2AWH, W0EXS), of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, died
recently. He was 92. An ARRL Full Charter Life member, Beers, was a
contributing writer to /QST/ magazine from the 1930s until the late
1990s and was the author of the book, /The Theory of Error/. He also was
an avid DXer and a member of the A-1 Operator Club. Beers was among
those involved in the construction of the WWV time and
frequency-standard station at Ft Collins, Colorado, where he oversaw
maintenance of the cesium atomic clock. He detailed the experience in
"WWV Moves to Colorado
<http://tf.nist.gov/timefreq/general/pdf/271.pdf>," which appeared in
the January and February 1967 issues of /QST/. More recently, his wife,
Dorothy,discussed her husband's life and ham radio activities in the
"Old Radio
<http://www.cqc.org/text/yardley_beers_arrl_qst_november_2004.pdf>"
column in the November 2004 issue of /QST/./--some information from Jack
Ciaccia, WM0G/Boulder Amateur Radio Club/