[SFDXA] Adam Farson AB4OJ/ VA7OJ - SK

[Kazimierz Siwiak]

Adam was a good friend... RIP.
Kai,  ke4pt

On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 8:02 AM Bill <bmarx at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> 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
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> *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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