Inaugural CQ
Amateur Radio Hall of Fame member Dr. Tom Clark, K3IO (formerly W3IWI), became
a Silent Key on September 28 at age 82. Clark
was a leading authority on Very Long Baseline Interferometry, a key player in
the development of the Global Positioning System (GPS) and a pioneer in amateur
radio digital and satellite communications. As a founding member of TAPR
(Tucson Amateur Packet Radio), the AMSAT News Service reported, Clark was a leader in developing the AX.25 digital
protocol on which all amateur packet radio is based. He was also AMSAT's second
president and was instrumental in developing much of the hardware that flew on
multiple amateur satellites. He spent his professional career at NASA.
Longtime CQ and Popular Communications columnist Rich Arland, K7SZ, passed away
October 7. Rich was also an authority on QRP (low-power) communication and
authored several editions of the ARRL's Low
Power Communications book. He was CQ's
"Learning Curve" editor from 2010-2012 and a longtime columnist for Popular Communications..
