[QCWA Hotlist] 2019-009 - Keith D. Pugh, W5IU - Silent Key

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May 27, 2019

 From QCWA Headquarters

http://www.qcwa.org/

QCWA Bulletin  - 2019-009 - Keith D. Pugh, W5IU - Silent Key

It is with deep sadness we report the passing of QCWA Life Member # 
12600, Keith Pugh, W5IU of Fort Worth, TX on May 24, 2019 at the age 
of 80. He was first licensed in 1953 as WN0QMG. Other calls he held 
were W0OMG and W5IYH.

Keith was born and raised in Dodge City, Kansas and became a licensed 
Amateur Radio Operator between his Freshman and Sophomore years in 
High School in 1953. Amateur Radio strongly influenced his decision 
to pursue a career in Electrical Engineering. After completing a BS 
in Electrical Engineering at Kansas State University, he went to work 
for Convair (later General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin) in Fort 
Worth, TX. After a long career in RADAR and Navigtion Systems 
Engineering, he retired from Lockheed Martin in 2004.

In the early 1980s he became interested in Amateur Radio Satellites. 
First contacts were on AO-08 and AO-10. He served as an AMSAT Area 
Coordinator since the mid 1980s. His first association with manned 
satellites came from participation in the Soviet Space Exhibit held 
in Fort Worth in 1991. As a part of this exhibit, regular contacts 
with Cosmonauts on board the Space Station MIR were conducted. This 
eventually led to an interest in the Amateur Radio on the 
International Space Station program where he has been an ARISS School 
Mentor since 2004.

Keith joined QCWA as soon as he was illegible. He belongs to several 
other clubs. Other interests are Public Service Work, Church, casual 
DX, weak signal VHF/UHF and Microwave.  He wrote an AMSAT column for 
the QCWA Journal  from 1988 to 2001.

For more of Keith's life written by Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO, ARISS 
International Chair, visit http://www.qcwa.org/w5iu-12600-sk.htm

73,

Ken Oelke, VE6AFO
President, Quarter Century Wireless Association, Inc.


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