• Well-Known Contester and Contest Station Builder Grady Ferguson, W5FU, SK

    From ARRL de WD1CKS@VERT/WLARB to QST on Thu Jul 23 19:08:03 2020
    07/23/2020

    ÿA well-known contester and the co-builder of contest stations in Texas and Nevada, Grady Ferguson, W5FU (ex-NA5R), died of COVID-19 on July 14. He was 76.

    He was best known for his activities with the Texas DX Society in the 1970s and 1980s and, with Tom Taormina, K5RC, built a multioperator contest station in Texas that had a few outings before Hurricane Alicia destroyed it in 1983. In 2007, Taormina and Ferguson restarted their efforts, building the Comstock Memorial Station, W7RN, in Virginia City, Nevada.

    A tribute page[1] has been set up on the W7RN website. Ferguson authored the article, "Some Solutions for Sharing Resources in Multioperator Stations," which appeared in the May/June 2010 issue of NCJ. - Thanks to Tom Taormina, K5RC


    [1] http://www.w7rn.com/grady-ferguson-w5fu

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