VK4DO silent key
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 8:19 pm
Sad news, Walter (Wally) Watkins VK4DO went Silent Key on Friday 2nd October.
Wally served Amateur Radio in many ways during his life, being the WIA VK5 Division Supplementary Representative (including participation in the Albury Conference that set out a lot of the band plan structure we rely on today), a staunch supporter for Amateur Radio in Counter-disaster through WICEN and other bodies, a Packet Radio BBS Sysop, a pioneer of APRS in Queensland, promotion of Amateur Radio Direction Finding plus he organized the 10th Region 3 ARDF Championships in Townsville. He was a recipient of the WIA G.A. Taylor Medallion, was a Life Member of the Wireless Institute of Australia and a Life Member of The Townsville Amateur Radio Club Inc. He also promoted, and was involved with many other aspects of Amateur Radio too numerous to mention here, and liked DX hunting rare countries on 40, 10 and 6metres on CW, Voice and the Digital Modes.
Funeral notice later
Wayne VK4WDM
Wally served Amateur Radio in many ways during his life, being the WIA VK5 Division Supplementary Representative (including participation in the Albury Conference that set out a lot of the band plan structure we rely on today), a staunch supporter for Amateur Radio in Counter-disaster through WICEN and other bodies, a Packet Radio BBS Sysop, a pioneer of APRS in Queensland, promotion of Amateur Radio Direction Finding plus he organized the 10th Region 3 ARDF Championships in Townsville. He was a recipient of the WIA G.A. Taylor Medallion, was a Life Member of the Wireless Institute of Australia and a Life Member of The Townsville Amateur Radio Club Inc. He also promoted, and was involved with many other aspects of Amateur Radio too numerous to mention here, and liked DX hunting rare countries on 40, 10 and 6metres on CW, Voice and the Digital Modes.
Funeral notice later
Wayne VK4WDM