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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