[OKDXA] [Fwd: ARLX002 Well-Known Contester Bill Fisher, W4AN, SK]

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This is a very sad loss to the amateur radio community.

Jim

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> From: "ARRL Web site" <memberlist@www.arrl.org>
> Date: 2004/04/06 Tue PM 04:51:56 EDT
> To: k5tt@cox.net
> CC: Subscribed ARRL Members: ;
> Subject: ARLX002 Well-Known Contester Bill Fisher, W4AN, SK
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> SB SPCL @ ARL $ARLX002
> ARLX002 Well-Known Contester Bill Fisher, W4AN, SK
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> ZCZC AX02
> QST de W1AW  
> Special Bulletin 2  ARLX002
> From ARRL Headquarters  
> Newington CT  April 6, 2004
> To all radio amateurs 
> 
> SB SPCL ARL ARLX002
> ARLX002 Well-Known Contester Bill Fisher, W4AN, SK
> 
> Bill J. Fisher, W4AN (ex-KM9P), of Alpharetta, Georgia, died
> unexpectedly April 4. He was 41. An ARRL Life Member, Fisher and
> fellow Georgian John Laney, K4BAI, took the silver medal at World
> Radiosport Team Championship 1996 in the San Francisco Bay area and
> they competed in WRTC-02 in Finland as OJ3D.
> 
> Fisher was the founder of the Contesting.com Web site. During the
> 1980s and 1990s, he contributed more than a dozen articles to the
> National Contest Journal. He was a member of the South East Contest
> Club, the South East DX Club, the First-Class CW Operators' Club and
> the A-1 Operator Club. In addition to being a ham radio contester,
> he was an avid bicycle racer.
> 
> Fisher was founder and Vice President of Concentric Systems Inc and
> he also established and served as president of Akorn Access Inc, an
> Internet service provider and consulting company. Survivors include
> his wife, Dana, and their sons Graeme and Erik. A memorial service
> will begin at 11 AM at L. W. McDonald & Son Funeral Home &
> Crematory, 150 Sawnee Drive, Cumming, Georgia.
> NNNN
> /EX
>