Topband: Fw: Mike, VK6Hd.

[K8MFO at aol.com]

Count me in as another admirer of Mike,  who gave Zone 29 to so many of us, 
not only on Top Band, but other bands as  well.

Mike was also a top notch 160 Meter DXer, living a long way from  major 
population centers, but still able to run up a high country  total.     
Contacts on 160 into places like PY may be  routine for those of us in the USA and 
Europe, but it was a major accomplishment  from VK6, and may have required 
years of effort. 
 
In July 1986 I was part of a group to  activate Market Reef as OH0MD/OJ0.   
   In the USA we  think of July as a high QRN month, but on Market Reef, 
you really have no  darkness, and perhaps only 1 hour per day of TWILIGHT.     
 Be that as it may, it was a real pleasure to give Mike a new one on that  
operation, and a collective cheer went up in the lighthouse when Mike was 
logged  on 160.    Everyone knew who Mike was, and had a favorite story  about 
first Topband VK, or first Zone 29 on a particular  band.  To give 
something back to Mike was very special.  It was a  tribute to his craftiness and 
dedication to break through a wall of European  callers.
 
I can remember working Mike a very long  time ago as G3HDA and for decades 
as VK6HD.     Sadly, you  just don't replace guys like Mike.

RIP, Old Friend.
 
73

Don K8MFO
 
 
 
In a message dated 4/12/2013 8:25:00 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
k1fz at myfairpoint.net writes:

Passing  of VK6HD.  
Mike will be greatly missed especially by 160 meter  DXers.



Kim Lyon
VK6TM ( son of VK6LK )


On  12/04/13 09:39, Robin Lyon wrote:

It is with great sadness that I inform you that Mike died this  morning. As 
you are aware, I regarded him as a close friend and I shall miss  our 
weekly skeds. 
For the record, Mike was the top Australian  operator on the current DXCC 
Honor Roll.
73
Robin.

All good topband ops know fine whiskey is a daylight  beverage.
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