[VHFcontesting] Jimmy Long, W4ZRZ Silent Key

[wb4jgg at bellsouth.net]

 Hello all. Apparently I am the culprit of forwarding this false story. And for that I am truly sorry. I was just passing along what I received from a good VHF friend in Georgia.
Who got it from another VHF friend in N. Car. I won't call their names because they were probably misinformed themselves.  Jimmy was and still is a friend of mine
and everybody on this e-mail list. I certainly didn't want to cause any grief with any of Jimmy's friends and especially his wife Chris.  

Marshall would you please apologize to Chris for me?   
And everybody please pray for Jimmy.  And somehow please forgive me.

David Benton
WB4JGG



-----Original Message-----
From: VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting-bounces+wb4jgg=bellsouth.net at contesting.com> On Behalf Of Marshall-K5QE
Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2022 9:55 PM
To: vhfcontesting at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Jimmy Long, W4ZRZ Silent Key

Hello to all VHFers....the original post saying that Jimmie Long-W4ZRZ has become a silent key is NOT true.  I just spoke at length with Chris
Long(wife) and he has not passed away.

If you have cross posted this information to another list that I am not a member of, please put out a new post making the correction.  Chris is getting all kinds of condolence calls.....she was just baffled how this could have happened.

Thank you....73 Marshall K5QE


On 8/4/2022 2:19 PM, Les Rayburn wrote:
> Very sad news this morning. Dale Benton, W4OP of the Boatanchors list wrote to inform us of the passing of Jimmy Long, W4ZRZ. Jimmy was the former owner of Long’s Electronics in Birmingham, as well as many other business ventures.
>
> Jimmy was also an Honor Roll DXer, EME pioneer, avid VHF contester, and experimenter. From his hilltop home in Springville, AL, W4ZRZ was one of the loudest stations in the Southeast on as many as 12 bands.
>
> On a personal note, Jim was one of my VHF mentors, and my 2nd ever contact on 2 Meter SSB. He encouraged me, taught me with great patience, and prodded me when I struggled in my quest to earn VUCC on 2 meters using indoor antennas. An effort that he thought was complete folly, BTW.
>
> More than once, as he struggled to hear me on 1.2 Ghz, he’d shout— “Les, why don’t you just move to someplace that allows you to have antennas!”
>
> Jimmy loaned out more gear than most of us will ever own. He loaned me gear for 5 Ghz, 10 Ghz, and more when I was roving during contests—and would stay up half the night during contest weekends to work me from a new grid. He drove 35 miles to my house once in the middle of the night to loan me a Belko 432 amplifier. It was at my shack for so long he seemed surprised when I returned it. He had honestly forgotten the loan. That’s the kind of guy he was.
>
> He will really be missed. Can’t imagine a VHF contest without hearing “Radio Zebra Radio.”
>
>
> 73,
>
> Les Rayburn, N1LF
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