>From the CQ Magazine Newsroom ...
Dec. 1, 2009 Jerry Sevick, W2FMI, became a Silent Key on November 29
after a brief
illness. Sevick was a renowned authority on antennas and transmission
line transformers, and was active on the air until just days before
his passing. He was 90 years old. Sevick is best known among hams as
author of "Transmission Line Transformers," "Building and
Understanding Baluns and Ununs," and "The Short Vertical Antenna
Handbook." He was also a prolific author of magazine articles in both
amateur and professional technical media.
Jerry attended Wayne State University on an athletic scholarship and
was drafted by two professional football teams, but he became a U.S.
Army Air Corps pilot in World War II and was introduced to radio and
electronics while in the military. He also discovered ham radio,
which he often said changed his life, as he changed career goals
after returning from the war, going on to earn a Ph.D. in applied
physics from Harvard University. After teaching at Wayne State and
working as a local weather forecaster for WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Jerry
went to work for Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where
he retired as Director of Technical Relations.
For those in the New Jersey area, a memorial service is scheduled
tomorrow, December 2, at 10 AM, at Fellowship Village, 8000
Fellowship Rd., Basking Ridge, NJ.
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