WILLIAM M. PASTERNAK WA6ITF (SK) 1942-2015 - Amateur Radio Newsline

With deep regrets and sympathy for the family and friends.

Your friend and old buddy from the 1960's novice days in New York.

Looking forward to see you again in the new system of things.

 

Sorry to hear of this great loss RIP Bill!

 

RIP OM

It's a sad day.

 

I'm glad he went peacefully, he was such a great man. Now he is in the great ham shack beyond and he will be greatly missed. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family.
Thank you Bill, for all that you have done.

 

He was incredibly dedicated to amateur radio ...

He will be missed ....

 

We'll light a candle in his honour tonight. May his guiding spirit live on in us all for ever. May peace be with him, and his loving family. In our thoughts this day.
Pete Darg
On the farm, Norfolk, Ontario Canada. 73 OM

 

Prayers for his family...

 

One of the great ham pioneers has left us.
I always enjoyed reading about anything he was up to.
Gave me ideas about projects I was working on.
He's already missed.

73, Bill and thank you.

Chris

 

I am deeply saddened this loss occurred to the Amateur Radio community.

Bill will be honored and always remembered.

73 WA6ITF/SK DE KC8VWM

 

Bill Pasternak

Damn! Another one bites the dust...

 

Rip bill.
I knew bill Pasternak before news line when he lived in Bensonhurst brooklyn. I was a friend of his then and he was a great and giving guy. I remember when we use to have encounter groups in his home in Brooklyn. We went way back.
My deepest condolences to Sharon and his family.
Howard Levine. W2HL

 

rip bill, that's to bad

 

RIP Bill , Peace to your family...

 

I met Bill in the late 70's at the FM forum at an ARRL convention in San Diego. He thought enough of this whippersnapper's plan for better frequency coordination to write it up in his 73 Magazine column, Looking West. We kept in touch on and off, mostly seeing each other at Dayton, over the decades. He encouraged me to start ARVN (the DVD production service that became HamRadioNow), and I'll never forgive him for it.

Bill and I started the Friday BS series on HamRadioNow with Episode 152, exactly one year ago tomorrow, and a month later, did another one along with Ward Silver N0AX in Episode 160. Alas, that was the last one we recorded together. We planned more, even in a (private) Skype conversation from his hospital bed around Christmas last year. I dialed him up on April 22, and we were going to record BS #3, Episode 200, but he had spent the day with a lot of pain, and wasn't up to it. That's the last time we talked. He was back in the hospital a short time later.

In addition to the two BS sessions, Bill produced an interview with his close friend Steve Mendelsohn W2ML, shortly before Steve became a Silent Key. I ran that as a Special Edition. That program explored the life of one of our era's more prominent hams.

I regret that I didn't take the time to do the same kind of interview with Bill. Every time we talked (mostly he talked, and I listened), I learned another piece of ham radio history that Bill had lived personally. I think he knew everyone, and everyone knew him.

Here's that first Bull Session. Here and there it has a bit of Bill's history:

[video=youtube;QrChaf91HIk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrChaf91HIk[/video]​

 

Peace and prayers for Bill's Family