[Milsurplus] Post VEJ hamming story

[Hubert Miller]

A little more on Rod Newkirk, from my email archive:

>My condolences also to David Newkirk.

I noted this from the ARRL article:

"when World War II broke out, he joined the US Army as a member of the Army Signal Corps where he served in Florida, Papua-New Guinea and the Philippines.
He remembered these times in his first QST article, "Christmas, 1944," which recounted a "heart-warming yarn involving the combination of the Amateur and the Christmas Spirit in far-off Hollandia."

I recalled reading with interest this wartime account. Rod described listening to broadcasts over an Australian-built HRO-type
receiver. As I had just bought such a receiver, and am very interested in WW2 radio, I wrote to him, and told him how
interesting I found his reminisce. He was kind enough to write back and tell me a little more about the wartime experience.

Thanks for posting this. I likely would have missed it otherwise.
-Hue Miller

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Subject: [regenrx] Rod Newkirk, W9BRD

Old-time ham operators will be sorry to learn that Rod Newkirk, W9BRD, died Monday, November 19. Rod wrote the "How's DX Column" in QST magazine from 1947-1978.

> http://www.arrl.org/news/former-how-s-dx-conductor-rod-newkirk-w9brd-sk
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