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Yardley . Beers Jamaica Plain, MA QCWA # 11012 |
Yardley Beers, WØJF, SK: (ex-W3AWH, W2AWH, WØEXS), of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, died recently. He was 92.
An ARRL Full Charter Life member, Beers, was a contributing writer to QST from the 1930s until the late 1990s and was the author of the book, The Theory of Error. He also was an avid DXer and a member of the A-1 Operator Club.
Beers was among those involved in the construction of the WWV time and frequency-standard station at Ft Collins, Colorado, where he oversaw maintenance of the cesium atomic clock. He detailed the experience in "WWV Moves to Colorado," which appeared in the January and February 1967 issues of QST.
More recently, his wife, Dorothy, detailed her husband's life and ham radio activities in the "Old Radio" column in the November 2004 issue of QST. (Just below)
QST - http://www.qsl.net/w0dk/scholarship_files/yardley.pdf
More Yardley
http://www.oldqslcards.com/w3awh.pdf
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2790/1877/1600/Yardley%20Beer%20DVRA1.jpg
--some information from Jack Ciaccia, WM0G/Boulder Amateur Radio Club
