AMSAT Pioneer Patrick J. A. Gowen, G3IOR, Silent Key
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Pat Gowen, G3IOR, of Norwich, Norfolk, passed away on August 17, after a long illness.  He was 85.
 The amateur-satellite world has lost one of its true pioneers. Pat was a co-founder of AMSAT-UK, and elected to the board of directors of AMSAT-NA in 1974.  He was also long time satellite columnist of Practical Wireless, as well as a frequent contributor to The AMSAT Journal and Oscar News.

 He was the first to work 100 DXCC entities via satellite (all LEOs), and received Satellite DXCC No. 4 when his QSL cards arrived. Fluent in Russian, Pat enjoyed conversing with the cosmonauts aboard MIR and ISS.

 More recently, Pat was the first to discover the re-birth of AMSAT-OSCAR 7 when its battery returned to life in sunlight.

From text edition for OCT 08  2017 - VK NATIONAL NEWS BROADCAST ON VK1WIA : http://www.wia.org.au/members/broadcast/wianews/

Also in MP3 edition of news available at: http://www.wia-files.com/podcast/wianews-2017-10-08.mp3
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AMSAT Pioneer Patrick J. A. Gowen, G3IOR, Silent Key - by VK4ADC - 06-10-2017, 05:25 PM

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