Wayne Warden, Jr, W9GW SK Formerly W9IGW SK June 1, 2015 Joe Goggin, K9KNW, Flip Ries W9FIU, Don Blankenship K6JGS/W4PUL, Jim TI2USA, Wayne Warden W9IGW. Jim was a U.S. Marine security guard in San Jose, Coast Rica. He was very tall as you can see in this photo. Not shown are the Costa Rica hams that include Bernal Fonseca TI2BF, Carlos Fonseca TI2CMF, Carlos TI2CAP, Jose TI2J, Fernando TI2W. Notice the carving in the tree on the left. Wayne Warden Jr. of Bloomington, passed away at the Bloomington Hospital on June 1, 2015. Born June 9, 1916 in Nashville, TN, he was the son of Wayne Warden and Prudence Marshall Warden. Wayne graduated from Tech High School at age 17, in 1933, and joined the Army Air Corp., now knowns as the United States Air Force. Warden retired as a Lt. Col., serving a total of 39 years. After the war Wayne returned to IU where he met his future bride Marilyn Seward. They married June 8, 1947 and Warden graduated a year later with a BS degree from the School of Business. He visited every continent in the world, all 50 states in the US. His love of ham radio took him to some of the most exotic parts of the world, including Easter Island, Cocos Islands, and Wallace Island. He is past member of the First Baptist Church and served as a deacon there. Wayne was an active member of Bloomington Country Club, BPO Elks Lodge 446, IU Varsity Club, IU Foundation, Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and the Ham Radio Club of Bloomington. Wayne was actively involved with Boy Scouts of America and was an assistant troop leader with Troop 3 in Bloomington where his son's Jim and Jeff were members. He is survived by four children John A. (Ann), James M. (Marcie), Jeffery W. (Pamela) and Nancy J. Wroblewski (Mark). He is preceded in death by his wife, Marilyn, of 56 years. A private family service, with military honors, will be held on Sunday June 12, at Dunn Cemetery, where he will be laid to rest with his beloved Marilyn. There will be a Celebration of Life at the residence of Jeff and Pam that afternoon from 3:00-5:00 p.m. Friends and family are welcome to attend. Memorial contributions may be made in Wayne's honor to the Boy Scouts of America or Indiana University Kelly School of Business. You are invited to read Wayne's full obituary and leave online condolences to the Warden family at www.allenfuneralhome.org Published in the The Indianapolis Star on June 26, 2015 - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/in...pid=175158695&fhid=14457#sthash.dokwayE5.dpuf Read more about Wayne, here at links. http://cwcfamily.org/articles/family/warden.htm snip/ The total number of DX stations around the world is about 350. Working the major countries hwere DXers abound (that's just about everywhere) is the easy part. The challenge comes in working the places where only Catholic missionaries and National Geographic photographers usually go -- Brunei, Wallis Island, Surinam, Niue, San Felix Island, to drop a few names. THE PROBLEM IS, such places do not teem with population much less DXers; someone must go and set up a DX station so that fellow DXers can work the location and add it to their list. The towering injustice is that the person who volunteers to establish the wilderness outpost does not get credit for working that location. He must wait till a fellow DXer sets up shop at the same location. Competition among the DXers is intense, as is cooperation and brotherhood. Over the past 25 years Warden, a Bloomington businessman, has worked some 320 DX stations and helped contribute to the expanding list by venturing deep into the South Pacific and into Central and South America to set up broadcast stations. His credits include those listed above plus Easter Island and a handful of others. http://hamgallery.com/qsl/country/Cocos_Island/ti9cf4.htm snip/ THIS IS A CLASSIC STORY OF HOW NOT TO CONDUCT A DXPEDITION The 1970 DXpedition group to Cocos Island almost cost the lives of all five Americans and about seven Costa Ricans. For the first time the story is told below. 73 K2HAT Lee Hatfield Jr
