[Wswss] Fwd: [50MHzandUp] longtime 50MHz and Up member SK

[kr7o at vhfdx.com]

We have lost another good guy.

You guys will be missed!



>Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 17:41:53 -0700 (PDT)
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> > I'm sad to have to tell you that our dear friend Cliff K7RR became an
> > SK on Sunday evening.  He died in his home in Morro Bay.  Don Furgeson
> > and I had been down to see him last Wednesday - we gave him a lifetime
> > achievement award from Project OSCAR that we were planning on
> > presenting in October, but it was pretty clear he wasn't going to last.
> >
> > Here is the preliminary announcement I am going to send out.  If you
> > have anything you think is worth adding please do.
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Emily
> >
> >
> > Clifford C. Buttschardt K7RR  Silent Key
> >
> > Cliff Buttschardt, K7RR (formerly K6HDO) became a silent key July 30,
> > 2006 at 9:47 PM PDT.  Cliff was a lifetime member of both AMSAT and
> > the ARRL, and an original  member of Project OSCAR.  He was also a
> > member of the Central Coast Astronomical Society and many local
> > amateur radio associations, most recently the Estero Radio Club in
> > Morro Bay where he served as club Secretary. He died quietly in his
> > home in Morro Bay, California after battling inoperable cancer of the
> > esophagus.
> >
> > Cliff was born in 1931 in Brooklyn, NY and later lived in Garden City
> > on Long Island.  When he was 17 he decided that he had enough of NY
> > and ran away from home.  He got as far as Chicago before his car broke
> > down, but his parents allowed him to continue to San Jose where he
> > lived with a cousin.  Cliff finished school in San Jose and went on to
> > graduate from San Jose State with a degree in electrical engineering.
> >
> > After graduation Cliff joined the Navy where he worked as a radioman.
> > Upon leaving the Navy Cliff returned to the Bay Area and went to work
> > at Raytheon in Mountain View.  It was while working at Raytheon that
> > Cliff became a member of the original Project OSCAR Radio club and
> > supported the construction of the first Amateur Satellite, OSCAR-I.
> > Cliff went on to work at SRI international in Palo Alto and began
> > teaching part time at Foothill College.  While at SRI Cliff and other
> > members of the Palo Alto Amateur Radio Association (PAARA) designed,
> > built and kitted one of the first AM/FM 2M transceivers kits.
> >
> > In 1975 Cliff left SRI to pursue a full-time career in teaching.  He
> > joined the faculty at Chico State University (where he also became a
> > rancher growing almonds and oranges.) Not one to let the grass grow
> > under his feet, Cliff left Chico State in the early 1980s and founded
> > a marine electronics company in Morro Bay.  He continued to teach at
> > nearby Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo.
> >
> > In 1989 and once again in search of adventure Cliff left his teaching
> > job at Cuesta College and returned to the sea, becoming a radioman in
> > the Merchant Marine.  While at a stopover in Naples Italy in 1990 his
> > ship was federalized when Iraq invaded the State of Kuwait.  Cliff
> > found himself back in the Navy once again.  Although well past the
> > time for manditory service, Cliff remained in the Navy and served
> > through 1991 during the first Gulf War.
> >
> > After the war Cliff returned to Morro Bay where he landed a position
> > as Professor of Engineering at California Polytechnic State University
> > in San Luis Obispo.  After retirement, Cliff continued to be a mentor
> > and joined the Cal Poly CubeSat program with Ed English W6WYQ.  In
> > 2002 Cliff and Dr. Clark Turner WA3JPG made the first proposal to
> > AMSAT for the use of amateur frequencies for the CubeSat program.
> >
> > In March of 2006 the Project OSCAR Board of Directors voted
> > unanimously to award Cliff it?s highest honor, the Lifetime
> > Achievement Award, for his contributions to amateur satellites,
> > amateur radio and the CubeSat program.  Over his lifetime Cliff
> > supported many of the amateur satellites that were launched from
> > Vandenberg AFB.  The award was presented during the CubeSat Launch
> > Party at Cal Poly  on 26 July 2006, and to Cliff personally at his
> > home on the same day.
> >
> > Cliff is survived by his wife Mabs, who was with Cliff when he passed
> > on.  It is requested that in lieu of flowers a contribution to AMSAT,
> > the ARRL or Cal Poly be made in Cliff's name.
> >
> >
> >
>written by  N1DID formerly W0EEC - CM87tm
>
>
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73, Robert KR7O/YB2ARO, DM07ba/OI52ee  (ex.  N7STU)
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