[TowerTalk] Interesting info about "The Wireman"

[Jim Rhodes]

Sad to hear this. I have dealt with (I believe) his daughter in the last
few years, so I hope the business will continue on.

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:44 AM Larry Banks via TowerTalk <
towertalk at contesting.com> wrote:

> I found this in my Alumni News concerning Press Jones; interesting history:
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> Pressley W. Jones, 89, died April
> 10, 2018. He was an MIT graduate in
> food technology and worked with food
> preservation in the Army. Then he
> worked on a cattle ranch before joining
> Gerber in Michigan. He later transitioned
> to lead the full dinners division of Sara
> Lee in Chicago. After four years he
> returned to Michigan, where he first
> bought a restaurant in Newaygo, then
> built a new restaurant in Croton. He
> had to build a walk-in cooler, so Pressley
> studied refrigeration—followed by
> electronics so he could maintain it. This
> interest led to converting CBs to ham
> radios and the discovery that the ham
> radio industry lacked appropriate wire,
> so Pressley created (from the ground up)
> the Wireman, a business that supplies
> high-quality materials for amateur and
> professional radio.
>
> Pressley was the loving husband of
> his late wife, Virginia. He is survived
> by three children, two grandchildren,
> and three great-grandchildren
>
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> My emphasis,
> 73 -- Larry -- W1DYJ
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Jim K0XU
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