[NCC] W8DX SK

[Tim Duffy]

Silent Key

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W8DX, Harvey S. Laidman, became a silent key January 3, at the age of 82.
He was a longtime supporter of The Daily DX.  Licensed first, at the age of
12 in 1954 as WN8SLR, he passed general class in 1957 in Cleveland, Ohio at
the Federal Building, with at the time the original W8DX, Richard Cotton,
being the test administrator.

 

Harvey moved to California in 1963 and got his extra in 1972 and got the
N6HL callsign in 1977, and "assumed the protectorship" of the W8DX callsign
in 1997.  Harvey had 5BDXCC, 5BWAZ, etc.  An active DXer, of course, he was
a past president of the Southern California DX Club.

 

Harvey was a film director and teacher of cinema and television arts at Cal
State University Northridge.  He preferred CW DXing and said "I am at the
key in the early morning and late evenings."  As of January, 2020, he was at
a new QTH in the Simi Valley, California, and had 340/353 current/total in
the DXCC mixed.

 

Harvey's mother was a librarian, his father an electrical contractor.  As a
young man, for three summers, he worked with the Kenley Players theater
company in Warren Ohio.  He studied electrical engineering at Kent State,
then transferred to the University of Southern California, USC, for a cinema
degree.  He worked at station KTTV and Lorimar Productions.  His first
directing job was for The Waltons in 1975.  For 30 years he directed
hundreds of TV programs including Matlock, Seventh Heaven, Scarecrow and
Mrs. King, Magnum P.I., Knight Rider, JAG, Tales of the Gold Monkey, Knots
Landing, Paper Chase, Eight is Enough, Airwolf, Chicago Story, the
Fitzpatricks, Lou Grant, and others.

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