[Moon-net] Fwd: SM7BAE has passed away

[Paul Chominski]

I am very sorry to hear that Kjell SM7BAE passed away. I heard him off the 
Moon for the first time 1981 using two 19 el CC yagis. Later we QSO'd many 
times. Kjell made first in history EME QSO for Poland on May 5, 1984 with 
Mike SP5CJT. Mike visited Kjell two times, one time during one of the ARRL 
EME contests and he was very impresed that Kjell copied EME signals on loud 
speaker. I visited Kjell in his farm near Lund many times traveling by car 
to the continent. Kjell developed very efficient own antennas for EME long 
time before EME community started to use computer simulations and 
optimalizations. He was real pioneer of EME and weak signal communications. 
We met few times on Scandinavian VHF/UHF Metings and EME Conference in 
Goetenburg. We also QSO'd when I moved to San Diego first time with single 
yagi and later with two yagis.
RIP Kjell
Paul   WA6PY,  SM0PYP

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Blaschke" <w5un at wt.net>
To: <moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 5:49 AM
Subject: [Moon-net] Fwd: SM7BAE has passed away



>
>I am very sorry to have to convey this fact to you.
>Kjell has passed away one month before his 80´th
>birthday. Hamradio will never be the same!
>
>73!  Stan SF7WT


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