[SFDXA] Adam Farson AB4OJ/ VA7OJ - SK

[Bill]

Adam Farson AB4OJ/VA7OJ, a very old friend has died. Adam was a resident 
of Florida and a good friend before moving to Vancouver. He moderated 
several Icom and other Groups. He was in the Hospital fro several weeks 
before entering Hospice Care. Services were held last Friday I 
understand.He recently won The 2022 Technical Achievements Award at 
Dayton. - Bill W2CQ

 From That Announcement:

/Technical Achievement Award

Adam Farson, VA7OJ/AB4OJ, of West Vancouver, B.C., received the 
Technical Achievement Award for his dedicated professional work with RF 
and telecommunications engineering issues and innovation. He has been a 
ham since he was a teenager.

Best known to the amateur radio community for his development of 
multiple sources of technical support for Icom radios, Farson started an 
Icom technical support net on 20 meters in the 1980s. He and came to 
know several senior Icom Japan engineers while living in, and traveling 
around, Japan while working. With each week's net, Farson helped hams 
solve challenging technical and logistical issues.

Farson has spent 3 decades creating an online resource for HF radios. 
His website -- a repository for highly technical information on Icom and 
other HF transceivers and amplifiers -- is now one of the most widely 
cited internet resources.He independently performs measurements on 
nearly all new radios, including noise-power ratio, a measure he 
developed. His work includes producing the only data radio hobbyists 
have, which clearly delineates how modern software-defined radios (SDRs) 
perform across the spectrum of band noise levels. Farson has written 
multiple articles for technical and amateur radio journals. Recently, he 
penned a multipart series on modern HF solid-state amplifier design 
principles.

/RIP Adam Farson/

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