What a surprise. Paul was someone I always very much enjoyed talking
with and who visited the factory in Sevierville numerous times over the
years. His endless search for the perfect oddball items that Ten-Tec
had built in the 1960's and 1970's never ceased to amaze me. He would
call up and say things like "you'll never believe this one! A
Signalizer S-30 unopened in the original box! The holy grail!"
At Dayton in 2002 we nominated Paul as our "official non-employee show
representative" and had a great time spinning yarns with him at our
hotel Thursday night before the Hamvention started. I gave him an
exhibitor pass with his callsign and Ten-Tec, Inc. stamped on it - he
was one happy, happy guy that weekend. A few of us here at Ten-Tec saw
the posts on the reflector this morning about Paul and were reminiscing
some about that weekend.....not so long ago.
Quite a loss for the hobby. Our condolences to the Valko family.
73
Scott Robbins, W4PA
Jim Lowman wrote:
> It is with sadness that I report the passing of
> Paul Valko, W8KC, a member of this list and
> host to the Virtual Ten-Tec museum.
>
> I received word this morning that Paul had passed
> this weekend at the young age of 49.
>
> Paul also provided a valuable service to the QRP
> community, with his streaming of the 40m QRP
> watering hole, 7040 kHz. Additionally, Paul
> took on the task of providing membership numbers
> to the members of the QRP-L list after that list
> was transferred from Lehigh University to QTH.net
>
> He will be greatly missed.
>
> 73 de Jim - AD6CW
>
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