[CQ-Contest] Paul Newberry, N4PN

[jimk8mr at aol.com]

Indeed I too am very sorry to hear about this.
In addition to Paul being good for hundreds of QSOs over the years in the various state QSO parties, not to mention all those other contests, I had another personal link. The first time I met Paul was in November 1999 when we were both on a DXpedition to Brunei and 9M6, where from the later we did CQWW CW. This was the year before the Multi-2 category came into existence, so we did M/S. Might I just say Paul was a great BIC operator back then as well, so every time I suggested he might want a break from the run station, he seemed to say "No problem, I'm doing fine". So while I did get some run time, I also spent a lot of time at the mult station :-) .
The other memory from the trip was sitting around in the hotel room in Brunei, where I was listening on headphones to a local FM station playing some sort of Muslim chants. "All Koran, All the Time". I must of been humming along, for once I gave Paul the headphones he never forgot my weird curiousity in music.
I worked Paul a couple of times in CW SS this past weekend. At least he got one last shot at what he loved before he left.
RIP, OM.

Jim   K8MR


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Bowyer <peter at bowyer.org>
To: CQ-Contest Reflector <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wed, Nov 6, 2019 8:48 am
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Paul Newberry, N4PN

Thanks for letting us know, John.

I met Paul 20 years ago this month, when we coincided at a visit to
9M6AAC - he and his team (N2OO, K8MR) were on their way home from
Spratly. We've exchanged no more than brief greetings in contest QSOs
in the meantime but it was always a pleasure.

73 Peter G4MJS

On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 at 03:37, John Laney <k4bai at att.net> wrote:
>
> Hello all:
>
> I just had a phone call from Father Dave Probst, ND4K, in
> Milledgeville.  Dave had just been called by Paul Newberry's XYL,
> Martha, to tell him that Paul died this morning of a heart attack. No
> information on funeral plans or memorial contributions yet. Martha
> wanted the word spread, so I am sending it out to the contest and DX
> reflectors.  More later, when I know more.  Assume services will be in
> Macon, GA later this week. Paul was active in ARRL SS CW this past weekend.
>
> Regretfully,
>
> John, K4BAI.
>
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