Hello SBARC Members:
I was saddened to read the obituary of Walter Haake, W6YJE, in todays S.B. News-Press. He passed away on 21 November 2009, one month short of his 88th birthday.
Probably none of you newer/younger hams had ever met Walter, but he was a mainstay of the radio club in years gone by. For many years, he was in charge of the SBARC Bazaar which back then was held in the auditorium near Cathedral Oaks and Route 154.
He priced everything himself, and I finally complained to him that the fixed price items would never sell at his prices. His explanation was that he wanted to buy them all himself, so he inflated the prices for that purpose. He was a man of character, and would never "steal stuff off of the top" for his own personal use.
The storage units he built at his house were legendary, and the amount of electronic "junque" he accumulated over the years was almost unbelievable. His back yard was a steep hill, and he had storage units that looked like battlefield bunkers recessed into the hillside. He tended to collect things for future projects, but I never figured out what he was going to do with 4 WW-II BC-610 plate transformers.......