[NvHam] K7ZOK Silent Key

[nk7njan at earthlink.net]

Hello Dick, I remember getting Hal to the meeting last year and am sure glad he was still able to attend.  Take care, Jan

-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Flanagan <dick at twohams.com>
Sent: Jul 31, 2004 4:39 PM
To: Nevada Section Officials at null, null at null, 
	Nevada Ham Reflector <nvham at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: "Capodicasa, Kathy, N1GZO" <kcapodicasa at arrl.org>, 
	Bob Vallio W6RGG <w6rgg at arrl.org>, Jim Haynie W5JBP <w5jbp at arrl.org>
Subject: [NvHam] K7ZOK Silent Key

Jim Haynie presented Hal with an ARRL 50 Year Membership Award last year in 
Las Vegas.

73, Dick

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From: "G.A. \(Al\) Olcott" <k7icw at aaahawk.com>
To: <k7vc at arrl.org>
Subject: K7ZOK Silent Key
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 16:20:49 -0700

31 July 2004:

On Fri. 30, July 2004, I was informed by the XYL of K7ZOK that he had 
passed on from an on-going illness in a Las Vegas nursing home.

Harold "Hal" P. Leary, K7ZOK, ex W0FKY was 88 yrs old. He was honored by 
the ARRL recently for his  50 year membership.
Hal was a Professional Electrical engineer whose job duties with the U.S. 
Rural Electrification Administration brought him to Nevada in the mid 
1960's. His working life consisted of thousands of miles of travel every 
year to the far corners of Nevada and other Western states to keep the 
lights on in small communities. He had service club affiliations with the 
Masons and others. He was very active in his church group. Hal is survived 
by his wife Ethlyn, a son and a grandson. The boys have ham licenses. Hal's 
residence was in Las Vegas, and a time share property on the island of 
Maui, Hawaii. Hal was a past member of the Las Vegas Radio Amateur Radio 
Club (LVRAC), The Clark County Amateur Technical Society(CCATS) and the 
Southern Nevada Amateur Radio Club (SNARC). He held several offices in the 
SNARC. His club affiliation with the Silver Dollar Amateur Radio Club 
(SDARC) brought him in contact as a charter life member with a group that 
survives today since it was founded the 1960's. It was a sponsor of the 
"truck stop" ham dinners for 20 years.

Hal was attributed to having worked the first interstate contact on the 
1.2GHz band, between Southern Nevada and Northern Arizona. He also achieved 
Worked All States 50Mhz from Nevada and also Colorado.

K7ZOK also held the Army MARS call, AA7ZOK, and was an Army MARS member for 
3 decades. K7ZOK was an early member of the Southern Nevada Radio Amateur 
Civil Emergency Service (RACES) and the ARRL Amateur Radio Emergency Corps 
(AREC). Hal checked into the local 145.8MHz AM mode Southern Nevada AREC 
Net (now disbanded) whenever he was not out on the road working.

Somehow, Hal managed time to be on the staff to support the Sahara Amateur 
Radio Operators Convention (SAROC) held in Las Vegas annually for about 14 
years.

Hal was interested in weak signal radio frequency communications and was a 
Southern Nevada pioneer on 50,144,432 & 1.2ghz. He had an ARRL appointment 
as: Official Experimental Station, succeeded by the Official VHF/UHF 
Station appointment and in the end, Technical Advisor.

In the 1960's, Hal was part of a team, including Frank Beising, W7FJM, Don 
Brickey, W7OK(deceased) that installed the first 2 meter ham radio FM 
repeater in the Southern Nevada area.

Hal and his XYL were pioneer members of local garden clubs and managed to 
raise rare orchids in a special greenhouse designed and maintained by him. 
Many of his plants were unique rare specimens that would die in 5 minutes 
exposed to our harsh desert weather.

Hal was a private person that rarely showed his dissatisfaction or anger at 
anyone. The world is a lesser place that he is gone, but a better place 
that he was here.

Those of you with enquiries to his family may call his surviving XYL Ethlyn 
at (702) 645-4527.

Submitted by Al Olcott--ARRL Technical Adviser

k7icw at arrl.net


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Dick Flanagan K7VC NV SM
E-mail: k7vc at arrl.org


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