VHF weak-signal authority and CQ Contest Committee member
Gene Zimmerman, W3ZZ, became a Silent Key in early June. Gene was responsible
for reorganizing the CQ World Wide VHF Contest into its current format and was
a major behind-the-scenes player in the launch of CQ VHF magazine in the
mid-1990s. From 2002-2011, he was QST magazine's VHF columnist. Professionally,
Gene was a microbiologist with a long career at the National Institutes of
Health, both as a researcher and administrator. For more on Gene, see this
month's "Zero Bias" and "VHF-Plus" columns.
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