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from an email to Justin G'day Justin, Thanks for reminding me about Keith. I gather that the family were stingy about advertising - only one death (24/12) and one funeral (30/12) notice - so it's easy to miss. I wanted to visit and record Keith in 1993, but he would only talk on the phone and I made few notes. However, I have: Keith was born in 1912 and in the 1920s his family lived at a sawmilling settlement on Blackman Bay where there were steam logging locomotives. They were burnt out by fire three times! At the sawmill they had two eighty foot aerial poles and he remembered using a regenerative receiver to make a contact with Dunally, seven miles away. Keith obtained his amateur license in the early 1950s and was always a very active DXer. I remember the distinctive signal from his homebrew AM and SSB rigs, but then he bought a commercial rig and sounded just like everyone else. His dummy loads made from large electric motor slip rings were popular in Hobart and several of us are using power transformers rewound by Keith. Vale Keith Johnstone, VK7RX. At 10:49 PM 1/1/04 +1100, you wrote: > Greetings Richard, > > Happy New Year. > > I received a phone call from Barry Riseley and he said that Keith Johnson, >VK7RX had died. > > Can you confirm this? > > Do you know anything about Keith that I can include in a Silent Key notice? > > Regards > ---------------------------------------- > 73 de VK7TW Justin Giles-Clark > Broadcast Officer > Tasmanian Division of the > Wireless Institute of Australia > Home: [email address removed] > Work: [email address removed] > http://www.wia.org.au/vk7/ > from VK& b'cast 4/1/2004 KEITH JOHNSTONE, VK7RX, SILENT KEY Keith was born in 1912 and in the 1920s his family lived at a sawmilling settlement on Blackman Bay where there were steam logging locomotives. They were burnt out by fire three times! At the sawmill they had two eighty foot aerial poles and he remembered using a regenerative receiver to make a contact with Dunalley, seven miles away! Keith obtained his amateur license in the early 1950s and was always a very active DXer. I remember the distinctive signal from his homebrew AM and SSB rigs, but then he bought a commercial rig and sounded just like everyone else. His dummy loads made from large electric motor slip rings were popular in Hobart and several of us are using power transformers rewound by Keith. Vale Keith Johnstone, VK7RX.