This web page is dedicated to those net members who have recently become silent key.

Click on a call sign and name for details.

WB7TBR, Vic  

W7PFD, Jack

AL7MV, Jim

KB6QAQ, Bill          We need photos and info on Bill!

WA7KAJ, Leo          We need photos and info on Leo!

NL7KL, Tad   (New info posted 2/4/2006)

W7PFD, Jack "The traffic master"  

This is a copy of the email from Jerry, K9CCZ regarding the presentation of the award from the ARRL to Jacks daughter, Lynda. If you click on the photos, a larger version will load.

Hopefully, we will get more details to post in the near future such as internet links, newspaper articles and the like.

These are two of the many pics that we have when we presented the ARRL plaque to Linda Bauer and brother Dennis along with George her husband.  Ron, W7CDD, the other son was not able to attend.  The presenter was Ed Bruette, N7NVP, the Section Manager for ARRL and the rep for NW Division, Western Washington SM.  The person in yellow is me, Jerry Turner, K9CCZ  President of the NKARC here in Poulsbo.  The award was presented at the Club meeting on 5/11 in appreciation for all that Jack Watson did for Amateur RAdio and especially the many msgs and traffic he handled down through the years.  He is greatly missed by many and this award is little for all that he did.  73 Jerry Turner  Hope these pics come through and let me know if they don't.  Tnx

AL7MV, Jimbo...     August 24, 1920 - July 21, 2005                                                                                           

            One of our most prestigious net members was Jim Godwin, AL7MV. Jim had been a part of the Alaska Pacific net since the inception of the net in the aftermath of the Good Friday earthquake of 1964. Jim was one of the founders of the net along with some of the greatest hams in the history of Alaska.

Jim became a silent key in July of 2005.

KB6QAQ, Bill - Born December 31st, 1910

This is a copy of the email we received from Bill's daughter. Bill was a faithful net member and will be missed dearly.

Subject: Sad news


Dad, KB6QAQ, passed away at 4:45 pm Friday, December 2, 2005. His passing
was peaceful with my brother, Bill and me at his side. He spent
Thanksgiving with his family here and family and friends visited him
right up til the end. He lived a good long life and touched many people.
He will be missed.

Fran Jakobsen                                     

WA7KAJ, Leo  - Born August 7th, 1924 

We need photos and info on Leo!

NL7KL, Tad  -  Nov 1, 1919 - Jun 27, 2005   

Tadashi C. Fujioka
Obituary

Juneau resident Tadashi C. Fujioka, 85, died June 27, 2005, at his home in Tee Harbor.

He was born Nov. 1, 1919, in Seattle. He graduated from Franklin High School in Seattle and attended the University of Washington from 1939 to 1942. He earned a freshman letter in football and a varsity letter in swimming. He worked summers for the New England Fish Company in Taku Inlet and in Ketchikan, where he met Cherry Tatsuda.

They were married Feb. 5, 1943, at the Minidoka Relocation Camp in Idaho, where their families were interned during WWII. He joined the U.S. Army in 1943 and served in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Italy and France in 1944 and 1945.

After the war, he finished his education at the University of Washington and settled in Seattle to raise their children. In 1983, he retired from Boeing and the family moved to Juneau. He helped build homes for his daughter, Sara, and son, Jeff. He built a home for himself at Tee Harbor, where he enjoyed many seasons of king salmon fishing.

He was a long-time member of St. Brendan's Episcopal Church and was active in senior volunteer services. He was a member of the Juneau Amateur Radio Club and held the highest class of amateur radio license, Amateur Extra.

He is survived by his wife, Cherry; his four children, Jeff (Carol) Fujioka, Sarajean (Tim Maguire) Fujioka of Juneau, Barbara (Roger) Edwards, and son John Fujioka of Seattle, Wash.; his four grandchildren, Tad J. (Sara) Fujioka of Sitka, Kerry (Andrew) Hill of Portland, Ore., Jessica Edwards of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Stephen Edwards of Seattle; and his sister, Mariko Fujioka of Seattle.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to a charity of choice. He was a supporter of St. Brendan's Episcopal Church which has a building fund, and Juneau Senior Volunteer Services. He also gave to many national and international children support charities.

A communion service will be 2 p.m., July 9, at St. Brendan's Episcopal Church in Juneau.

Remembering Tad Fujioka – July 9, 2005

Tad and I went to the same high school in Seattle but he was 10 years ahead of me. Tad’s time in school was during the great depression.  Rather than being able to find jobs, many of the young fellows played baseball in neighborhood leagues or business-sponsored leagues.  Tad liked to recall playing ball with a couple of players who came from my neighborhood and later went on to play in the major leagues.

I really got to know Tad when I got into the ham radio hobby.  This was in the days before cell phones.  When Jeff Fujioka told me that his Dad could make phone calls through the repeater by keying the phone number into his handy-talky ham radio, I got interested in the hobby myself.

When Tad was studying to pass his Morse code test at 20-words per minute, we would see him using a Walkman to listen to the code while shopping in the stores with Cherry.   Tad listened to those code tapes a lot over the months and he finally passed his 20 WPM test and got his Extra Class license.   When I asked Tad why he went through all this work for a few extra privileges, he told me that he did it in respect for a paraplegic friend of his in Seattle that he regularly communicated with by ham radio.   He did this when he was in his late 70’s.  Tad had persistence and a very keen mind. 

I have a few brief things to tell you about my relations with Tad and amateur radio.

1.     When I was studying for my first ham radio exam I asked Tad to tell me how a tank circuit worked.  A tank circuit is a basic component that tunes a radio to a specific frequency so that we can select a radio signal out of the air.  Rather than answering my question he asked me if I wanted to pass the exam or become an expert.  He told me to memorize the simple answers required and not to worry about the more complicated stuff.  (Jeff Short of the ABL gave me the textbook answer to my question)

2.     When Tad was on the road to and from town he would often get on the repeater system with his radio and sing out his callsign “NL7KL Mobile”.  He was looking for some companionship enroute to where he was going.

I responded to one of Tad’s calls and invited him over for a visit.  Tad said that he had already passed Auke Bay and was heading for home.  He was a half-mile beyond where he would have turned off the highway to visit me.  Then Harold Hogberg came on the air and announced that his wife had just taken an apple pie out of the oven.  Tad said that he would backtrack 5 miles to Harold’s for that pie alamode.  I joined them for that treat.

3.     Tad loaned me his automatic machine for practicing the code when I was trying to pass the 13-word per minute code test and Harold Hogberg loaned me several practice tapes. 

Usually our fellow hams are a bit sympathetic when someone studies hard and fails a test. When I failed the code test for the second time, Tad and Harold got on the air and talked about my problem so that all could hear.  Harold would say, “Too bad Bob Simpson failed his code test again” and Tad would respond with, “I don’t know what is wrong with the guy he had all of the tools available to him”.  They went on like this and had a pretty good idea that I was listening but I wouldn’t give those guys the pleasure by responding to them on the radio.  I talked to Tad later about these digs and the lack of sympathy that he and Harold had for me and he laughed and said that he was sure that I was listening.

Tad was a very social person and he enriched the lives of our radio group and of all who knew him. 

(By Bob Simpson, NL7XZ)