It is always sad to hear of another silent key. 73 OM BV as we used to bid my radio officer brothers on their Eternal Journey as they cross the bar. (Sandbar as they clear the pilot station outbound.) 73 OM BV = Best Regards Old Man, Bon Voyage. 73 David N1EA On Aug 24, 2015 11:32 AM, "Kirk Reiser" <kirk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Writing to let people know that a long time friend and contributor > Bill Acker wb2flw passed away last evening. > > Bill was responsible for putting our first Redhat and fedora speakup > enabled distributions together. In more recent years he maintained the > server where we shared dns services and provided mail and mail backup > for many members of the community. > > He was an avid ham and phone freak and maintained a freeswitch which > many people using voip still use. > > I am going to miss him very much. I'm sure others here will as > well. He died of complications to his prostate cancer which he's been > fighting for the past couple years. > > 73s Bill. It's been a good journey. > > Kirk > > -- > Well that's it then, colour me gone! > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
