[Mldxcc] Fwd: ARLX007 Amateur Radio Newsline Co-Founder, Editor Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF (SK)

[Rick WA6NHC]

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> From: "ARRL Web site" <memberlist at www.arrl.org>
> Date: June 12, 2015 at 5:21:48 PM MDT
> To: wa6nhc at comcast.net
> Subject: ARLX007 Amateur Radio Newsline Co-Founder, Editor Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF (SK)
> 
> SB SPCL @ ARL $ARLX007
> ARLX007 Amateur Radio Newsline Co-Founder, Editor Bill Pasternak,
> WA6ITF (SK)
> 
> ZCZC AX07
> QST de W1AW  
> Special Bulletin 7  ARLX007
> From ARRL Headquarters  
> Newington CT  June 12, 2015
> To all radio amateurs 
> 
> SB SPCL ARL ARLX007
> ARLX007 Amateur Radio Newsline Co-Founder, Editor Bill Pasternak,
> WA6ITF (SK)
> 
> A well-known voice in the Amateur Radio news media has gone silent.
> Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, of Santa Clarita, California, died June 11
> following a period of ill health. He was 73. Pasternak was
> co-founder (with Jim Hendershot, WA6VQP) of Amateur Radio
> Newsline(tm) (formerly The Westlink Report) ham radio news webcast
> and a frequent presence at Amateur Radio conventions. Pasternak
> served as Newsline's managing editor and occasional newscaster for
> the program. Even while hospitalized earlier this year, he kept his
> ear to the ground for news from the Amateur Radio community, so he
> could pass it along to those who had taken over Newsline during his
> illness - discovered after he broke two ribs in a fall. ARRL Rocky
> Mountain Division Director Brian Mileshosky, N5ZGT, got acquainted
> with Pasternak at the Albuquerque hamfest and in 1997 was named
> Newsline's "Young Ham of the Year" (YHOTY).
> 
> "An incredible man, ham, and one of Amateur Radio's too-few giants,
> who woke up every day to make the hobby better for everyone,
> especially its legacy - youth," Mileshosky said. "I've enjoyed the
> energy he put into keeping hams informed via Newsline, and have been
> honored to give back to his Newsline Young Ham of the Year Award
> program, since being asked by him to sit on its judging panel well
> over a decade ago."
> 
> ARRL Public Relations Committee Chair Katie Allen, WY7YL, said
> Pasternak would be missed by those within and outside the Amateur
> Radio community. "He truly was one of the good ones," she remarked
> on Pasternak's Facebook page. "Thank you for sharing your light with
> us, Bill."
> 
> A Brooklyn, New York, native, Pasternak became a radio amateur in
> 1959 as WA2HVK and once was very active on 6 meters. "I love the
> hands-on approach to ham radio and built my very first transmitter
> using parts salvaged from an old Dumont television set," Pasternak
> recounted in an online biography. "It was a modification of a design
> by Bill Orr, W6SAI, published in his famous Novice and Technician
> Handbook. A crystal-controlled, low-power 6 meter AM transmitter
> that doubled in the final, was screen grid modulated, and put out
> almost no output power."
> 
> He eventually got into broadcasting and made his career in
> television engineering and production. He retired as a broadcast
> engineer with KTTV in Los Angeles in 2012 but continued as a
> broadcasting consultant.
> 
> Pasternak was the spark plug behind the all-volunteer Amateur Radio
> Newsline bulletin - which was relayed on repeaters around the US and
> elsewhere - as well as the creator and administrator of the annual
> YHOTY. He was the author of three books and served as a
> writer/producer on several educational films and videos, including
> the award-winning "Amateur Radio Today." In earlier years, he wrote
> the "Looking West" column for 73 Amateur Radio Today Magazine for 26
> years and penned a "VHF, FM and Repeater" column for WorldRadio. He
> also contributed to broadcast trade publications as well as to CQ.
> 
> In addition to the ARRL, Pasternak belonged to the Radio Club of
> America and the Quarter Century Wireless Association. He also
> enjoyed flying, including stints getting on the air from thousands
> of feet up.
> 
> He was the only person ever chosen to receive the Dayton Hamvention
> Special Achievement Award (1981) and Radio Amateur of the Year Award
> (1989). In 1995, the League presented him with an ARRL National
> Certificate of Merit in recognition of his contributions to the
> "furtherance of the goals of the Amateur Radio Service."
> 
> Survivors include his wife of 43 years, Sharon, KD6EPW.
> NNNN
> /EX