Please: enough on the nets. The VM's handle that now. Let's leave the past issues in the past. Many people here don't even know what 'Jones Town' was...(but should).
John, W0PV, thank you for posting the obit and your comments. I occasionally read The St. Croix Source during hurricane season and missed that notice. I would like to add to your kind comments about Herb. Herb worked for me as our Chief Engineer, WIVI-FM 99.1 St Croix, while I was Operations Manager at the station from 1978-1981. He was also the chief for WSTX St Croix, and WVWI St Thomas, and would occasionally help other broadcasters, often cobbling together whatever he could from his parts bins to temporarily keep us on the air until we could get OEM parts. With my direction, he upgraded our on-air studio console, installed a secondary live studio, created an RFI-free production studio, installed new audio processing equipment, and was in the beginning stages of a remote studio located safely inland. During Hurricanes David and Fredrick (pre-cell phone, pre-internet, pre-repeater) he provided civil defense feeds to me to air and inform our audience in the US and British Virgin Islands, and we collaborated on weather reports and teaching our audience how to track hurricanes and prepare for tidal surges and inland flooding. I had previously been licensed as a ham, but commercial radio usurped my interest at that time until I met Herb, and Fredrick. Though it wasn't until years later that I renewed personal interest in the hobby, the value of having an active ham with inter-island radio communications wasn't lost on me as he was invaluable when providing news reports to our station. Herb was very talented, very responsive, and had an intense concern for doing the right thing. He was a well-rounded communicator, engineer, and local figure with a respectable reputation. And that he played piano at the Buccaneer Hotel still amazes me for some unexplainable reason. He, Monika, and I kept loosely in touch in the following years - I never did work him via ham radio - and his reputation remains respectable to me and others to this day. RIP and Final 73 SK Dick N9EEE
I worked Herb on every HF band at one time or another. We first worked in 2/20/2000 on 160 CW. I vouched for his character in writing to the FCC when he was trying to get his ticket back.To me Herb was a good guy and great CW operator. RIP
Herb is in my log 4 times, all on 6m & 160m CW. He will be missed. RIP Herb, SK OM, and THANKS for the QSOs.
THANK;S CARMEN for the the kind wishes - wish all the werry best -- ur long time friend--vy73 DJOAJ ekrem
very sorry Herb SK was of the contest on 160m thanks my friend you gave me a new country on this band... Eternal flight on the air
I was a net control for the MARITIME MOBILE NET and others that met on 14.313. Herb intentionally QRM'd net operation and would even go off frequency to interfere with phone patches from the military to the states. Herb had many complaints filed against him for causing intentional interference. I loved DXing but in my spare time, I also enjoyed helping the sailors talk to their families from the Med. I operated from Jax Fla where many were home ported and later when I was a Navy officer on submarines in Charleston, SC. But Herb showed up many times just to try to cause as much havoc as he could. Herb was in my logbook many times and I don't ever remember getting in an argument with him- but looking back I should have. I'm sure the 20 meter ham band is a much better place without him.
