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Subject: 	[FCG] Fred Perkins K4LQ - SK
Date: 	Wed, 22 Sep 2021 17:51:47 -0400
From: 	W4WF Chris Plumblee <chris.plumblee at gmail.com>
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Thanks to a couple of Fred's friends in FOC, it was brought to my 
attention that longtime FCG officer K4LQ passed away this morning at the 
age of 87. Fred was already FCG Secretary/Treasurer/Newsletter Editor 
when K1TO became president of the FCG in 1998, so he was a tangible link 
back to the K4OJ administration that founded the FCG. Fred's eyesight 
had deteriorated due to macular degeneration in the last seven years or 
so, and as a consequence he gave up his position as treasurer but 
remained serving as our secretary, gamely taking minutes at each meeting 
and collaborating with me and K1TO to generate a list of members seen 
around various hamfests who couldn't make any of the meetings where we 
took attendance.

Fred was originally licensed in 1950 in New Hampshire as W1TBS. He had 
been stationed in a number of DX countries during his career with 
Lockheed Martin and predecessor companies from the 1960's to the 1980's, 
and was licensed in many of them. Some of his DX callsigns included 
C6ACZ, VP2AAP, VP2LU, VP2MD, VP5FP, VP7BE, VP7BG, VQ8BQ, and ZD8FP. He 
retired to Sebring in the 1990's and began DXing in earnest. DXing led 
Fred inexorably into contesting, particularly to fill in band countries 
on 6m and 160m. Fred held DXCC on 10 bands, 6m - 160m inclusive, and had 
enthusiastically taken up FT8 to continue chasing new band-countries in 
recent years.

Fred could always be counted upon to turn in a very admirable score in 
the FQP each year that his health and his antenna farm enabled him to 
operate. He won the K4OJ/W1CW memorial plaque for HP CW in FQP 
innumerable times. He also took one for the team most years in the ARRL 
10m contest by operating mixed mode, though his passion was for CW, to 
maximize the club score.

Fred was a very steady presence in FCG leadership, serving longer than 
anyone with nary a complaint or break. Fred was the solo editor behind 
the FCG Contest Gazette which he published (with diminishing frequency) 
for more than 20 years. We will have to find a new editor for the future 
who will have big shoes to fill.

In addition to his longtime leadership in the FCG, Fred was a 40-year 
FOC member (#1434).

Fred is survived by his wife, Sheila. Arrangements are pending at this time.

With a very sorrowful 73/OJ,
Chris W4WF
President, FCG

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Chris Plumblee
407.494.5155
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