[OKDXA] WA3OPY, Darell Brehm, SK

[Kim Elmore]

Darell's obituary may be found at 
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/darell-brehm-obituary?id=31965195.

Services are pending.


Darell was always as nice as could be to me and very encouraging. The 
tour he gave me of ICM was simply wonderful, with lots of interesting 
history about not only ICM, but Oklahoma City, too. I noted that many of 
the rooms in the ICM facility seemed to have some of the most secure 
doors I'd ever seen. He explained that it was because they had been used 
from the 1920s into the 1950s as film archive storage rooms and that a 
lot of the film base was nitrate-based for the older works. That meant 
it would burn furiously should a fire break out, and fires did occur. 
The vaults were intended to contain any fires to only the affected vault 
-- very thick walls separated each "room."

He showed me a 1 kHz crystal on display that was used to show the 
various modes of the crystal's vibration. A strobe light would flash at 
something like 1000.5 Hz and so would essentially freeze the crystal's 
shape and position such that it appeared to move very slowly and people 
could see that crystals truly do move, bend, and change shape.The place 
also had many model aircraft in it: the owner of ICM was a pilot and a 
big aviation fan. Darell explained the owner was an avid remote control 
model aircraft flier as well.

I didn't get to see Darell very often but was always happy when I did. 
I'll miss him.

73,

Kim N5OP

On 12/21/2021 10:46 AM, Kim Elmore wrote:
> I'm saddened to report that OKDXA member Darell Brehm, WA3OPY, has 
> become a Silent Key. Darell retired from International Crystal, in 
> OKC, from a sales position and was known by most of the major radio 
> manufacturers around the world. He gave me a personal tour if 
> International Crystal a few years ago, before they ultimately closed. 
> Locally, he was active in a number of organizations and was always 
> helpful to the OKC Ham Holiday hamfest.
>
> If I get more information, I'll pass it on.
>
> 73,
>
> Kim Elmore N5OP
>
-- 
Kim Elmore, Ph

Kim Elmore, Ph.D. (Adj. Assoc. Prof., OU School of Meteorology, CCM, PP 
SEL/MEL/Glider, UAS, N5OP, 2nd Class Radiotelegraph, GROL)

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