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<div>I first met Ron on the islands of Antigua. It was post 1986 Hurricane Hugo’s aftermath and Ron was commissioned
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">by the Voice of America </span>
to evaluate the Deutsche Welle radio facility on Montserratt Island. The trip was short, DW was too badly damaged. In fact one of the guyed towers was missing, to restate the tower could not be found. Blown out to Caribbean waters. The year was memorable; solar
cycle 22 producing aural displays visible in Antigua; the green-flash of a setting sun in downtown Plymouth (subsequently destroyed by the volcano). Thirty years have passed now, but besides all that nature could demonstrate I remember Ron. The details are
faded away and I still clearly think of him. God bless Ron. </div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On becoming a Category 5 hurricane, its maximum sustained winds had increased to 160 mph (260 km/h) and the minimum central pressure had dropped to 918 millibars (27.1 inHg). In the early hours of
September 17, Hugo crossed in between <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadeloupe" title="Guadeloupe" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">Guadeloupe</a> and <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montserrat" title="Montserrat" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">Montserrat</a>,
while its winds were near 140 mph (230 km/h)</span><br>
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<div>Tom <span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">🅦❼🅛🅤🅤 </span></div>
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On Apr 14, 2019, at 5:27 PM, K7CR via SBE16-Seattle <<a href="mailto:sbe16-seattle@sea.sbe16.org">sbe16-seattle@sea.sbe16.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Ron Rackley, a luminary of the U.S. broadcasting engineering community, has died. Rackley passed away Friday
at his home in Florida, according to an announcement by the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers, of which he was a former president.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I never had a change to work with him on a project (That would have been #1 in my Bucket List)
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<p class="MsoNormal">However we did chat many times at NAB<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">He was closely associated with Hatfield and Dawson, here in Seattle, and left his mark at some call letters you would recognize.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you have a Rackley Story, please do pass it on.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He was a pioneer, legend and giant in our industry<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Clay Freinwald<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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