Gordon Benjamin, N6WK, SK.

I am sad to report that Gordon, N6WK who helped found the SKCC passed away at the age of 64 on New Years Day.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/orangecounty/obituary.aspx?pid=168890054
1/1/2014

 

A passion and a legacy in two short sentences.
73 Gordon, RIP
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A good man, good friend, and good ham.

Godspeed, Gordon.

73,
Bill

 

Great CW DXer ,One Hell of a Strightkey cw operator,QRQ,QRS.
Gorden was a gentlemen,always willing to help others learn.
WE will Qso agn Gordon..... God Bless ya.

 

I feel privileged to have worked Gordon on the air and collaborated with him. 73, amigo, de Walt, W5ALT

 

I just found out! I missed this announcement and just read his SK in QST for May 2014.

I'm so sorry Gordon's no longer with us. I only met him once in person about five years ago, and noted he had an oxygen tank on wheels with a breather tube but never actually asked why. That's not an unusual appliance.

Worked Gordon many times on the air and used his "Kenwood Hybrid" website lookups lots of times. What a nice guy.

I'm very saddened to find out (a bit late) about his passing. He was so excited to have his new Force 12 C3 beam, I remember the day we took that down so he could use it at home.

Damn.

 

Yep,

Fine gentleman, and a very good ham.

Gordon and Orv got into it back about 10 years ago, when I was first anointed a moderator. They finally got it worked out.

When I needed some repair work on an old car, and was short of money at the time, Gordon gave me a great recommendation that worked out great.

We worked many times on the SKCC frequencies, and occasionally on the CARA repeater.

I posted on his memorial site locally...lots and lots of posts there. We lost a really good one.

73,
Bill