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W7TB, Lew Wilhelm (a.k.a. ZK1TB, 3D2TB, FOØWLW, ZK1XU)

W7EYG, Bill Webster

Bill spent many hours chasing DX on SSB, earning quite an impressive total before he passed away just before Field Day 2000. He was always ready to take the mike for hours through the night when everyone else was sleeping, racking up points for the club. At last count, Bill had worked 320 DXCC entities (with 316 confirmed).

KD7XO, Frank Berberich

Frank was a founding member of NADXA and an avid DXer.

Miles, W6GYX (l) and Bill, W7YS, at the Coconino County Fair many years ago.

THE CALL W7GYX FIRST APPEARED IN MY LOG  ON  6 FEB 1975 (LSB ON 75 METERS) WHEN I WAS LIVING IN SIERRA VISTA, AZ.  THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME I RAN INTO SHEP.  I GAVE HIM A 599 + 20 OVER AND HE GAVE  ME A 55.   ON 14 NOV 1976, WHEN I HAD MOVED TO FLAGSTAFF, I AGAIN WORKED HIM, THIS TIME ON 10M SSB. I GAVE HIM A 58, AND HE GAVE ME A 56.  I SOON BEGAN TO NOTICE THAT HE ALWAYS GAVE THE OTHER GUY A LOWER REPORT THAN HE RECEIVED.  THERE FOLLOWED SOME 10 YEARS OF ASSOCIATION WITH SHEP. SOME OF IT WAS CALM AND SOME STORMY.  HE PROBABLY HAD HIS LICENSE BEFORE WW2, AND HE WAS A BUILDER AND EXPERIMENTER.  WE SPENT HOURS TALKING HAM RADIO, SCROUNGING PARTS AND TUBES FROM EACH OTHERS JUNK BOX, AND WALKING AROUND SURVEYING OFFERINGS AT THE FT. TUTHILL HAM FEST.  SHEP WAS THE CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE LOCAL RADIO STATION.  AT HOME HOWEVER, HIS HAM SHACK WAS A MAZE OF WIRES.  HIS BIGGEST PROBLEM WAS BCI (BROADCAST INTERFERENCE, TVI (TELEVISON INTERFERENCE) WITH HIS NEIGHBORS, AND HIS VOICE COMING OUT OF THE ELECTRONIC ORGAN WHEN HIS WIFE WAS PLAYING.   HIS NEIGHBORS USED TO REWARD HIM BY SPRINKLING ROOFING NAILS OVER HIS DRIVEWAY AT NIGHT.  HE BACAME A CHARTER MEMBER OF THE NADXA-  HE COULDN’T FIND 100 CARDS TO QUALIFY, AND MADE A MOTION THAT  WAC SHOULD BE A QUALIFYING REQUIREMENT BUT WAS SHOT DOWN ON THAT.  OUR PRESIDENT KR7Y FINALLY WENT TO SHEP’S HOUSE AND AFTER ROOTING THROUGH A TON OF QSL’s FOUND 100 CARDS!  IT WAS A PROUD SHEP WHO BROUGHT HIS DXCC TO A CLUB MEETING SHORTLY AFTER.  SHEP RELOCATED TO WINDOW ROCK, AZ WHEN HE TOOK A JOB AS DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING AT THE 50KW NAVAJO BROADCAST STATION.   ON 5 MAR 1987, I HAD A PHONE CALL FROM HIS GOOD FRIEND CARL RIECK  KD7UN WHO INFORMED ME THAT SHEP  HAD SUDDENLY BECOME A SILENT KEY THAT MORNING DUE TO AN AORTA ANEURISM.    SHEP HAD A LIFETIME FASCINATION WITH RADIO BOTH AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL AND  WE MISS HIS  PRESENCE BOTH ON AND OFF THE AIR.      (by  Bill Schuchman W7YS) 

WX7E, Emerson M. Hoyt
“EM”  WAS LICENSED AS W2LLH IN 1937  .  HE JOINED THE NADXA IN SEPEMBER OF 1988, AND WAS A VERY ACTIVE MEMBER.  AS A RADIO ENGINEER, HE DID EXTENSIVE WORK DURING WW2 IN THE FIELD OF RADAR WITH THE GOVERNMENT.  PRIOR TO COMING TO FLAGSTAFF, HE WAS EMPLOYED AT SPACE TECHNOLOGY LABS IN LOS ANGELES FROM 1958.  AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE PHOTO, EM HAD AN EXCELLENT STATION AND A TRI BANDER ON THE ROOF OF HIS HOME IN CHESHIRE ESTATES .  AN ACTIVE DXER AND EXPERIMENTER, HE RELOCATED TO OREGON   AND WAS A  MEMBER OF THE LOCAL RADIO CLUB THAT WAS  INVOLVED IN ACTIVATING A RADIO STATION ABOAD A RETIRED SUBMARINE.  EM BECAME A SILENT KEY ON 16 JULY 2005 FOLLOWING A STROKE AND HEART FAILURE.