[WriteLog] Fwd: Ron Stailey K5DJ - Silent Key

[Frank Fallon]

Sorry to hear the sad news.  He is missed already.  Glad he was around 
to help the RTTY guys and gals.  And look where we are today.

73 Ron de N2FF.....

On 11/27/2019 22:49, Wayne, W5XD wrote:
> There would be no WriteLog today if Ron, who was AB5KD at the time, had
> not offered back in 1995 or thereabouts, to take over and manage
> WriteLog sales. I remember him better by the phonetics of his previous
> call, Killer Duck.
>
> The only operating plaque in my possession was also due to Ron and from
> 1997. It was #1 in the World-Wide RTTY WPX contest as WU3V/5 at W5WMU
> (RIP Pat, as well) along with K5DJ, WSJI, WU3V, W5WMU, K5JZ, K5ET N5SYF,
> and K7WM. My job was to keep the WriteLog network up at all the
> operating positions (were there 5 or 6 of them?) and call CQ on 10m.
>
> RIP Ron.
>
> Wayne, W5XD
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: 	Ron Stailey K5DJ - Silent Key
> Date: 	Wed, 27 Nov 2019 11:31:21 -0800
> From: 	Jay <ws7ik7tj at gmail.com>
> To: 	RTTY at groups.io, rttydigital at groups.io
>
>
>
> Ron Stailey, K5DJ, has a silent keyboard as reported to me a few minutes
> ago by his daughter.
>
> Ron was a RTTY Contester who created the WW RTTY WPX contest with me
> while we wrote  for the RTTY Journal.
>
> He also created the RTTY NAQP contest.
>
> Winner of many contests, friend to many of us.  Ron was associated with
> Writelog the contesting program for a long time
> and got W5XD to add RTTY to his program.
>
> Hopefully someone can cross post to contesting.com as he had many
> friends there as well.
>
> I will further info on the services which will be in Texas after the
> holiday.
>
> Jay WS7I
>
>
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