From: noreply@remailer.cpunk.us   
      
   The "John Wayne" of 3.977 has risen.   
      
   On of the last enduring voices of 3.977MHz has dead.   
   WB6RYW, George C. Beach of Lancaster has passed   
   away from an untimely illness early October.   
   If I could name two of the most genuine rag chewers   
   who exemplify the spirit of ham radio it would be silent   
   key KC7JOG (Mark Coker) and WB6RYW.   
      
   George and Mark hovered like stoic American bald eagles   
   over the nest of knowledge and rag chewing that still   
   pervades 3.977.   
      
   WB6RYW's contagious expressions used on 3.977   
   "it's time for an 807" and 807 was George's code for an iced cold can of beer   
   "that's the truth and I’m sticking to it"   
   "that's my story and I’m sticking to it"   
   "let's see if I got it..."   
   rarely George would quip when he forget what he was saying "I’ve got a   
   put another quarter in the jukebox" was a humble man.   
   A good man who was always hard to find -- an open man. Who would always   
   end his QSO's, "God bless you and your loves one and take care!"   
      
   George had a sixty plus marriage to his wife (a German woman), and son   
   and I believe daughter and countless grandchildren.   
      
   Possibly one of the most touching memories is when Mark (k6jog, silent key)   
   was up talking with another station early in the morning about 2am and were   
   having a very nice QSO, when George signed out.  The patriarch of 3977 Mark   
   Coker exclaimed to an ear    
   lending audience,   
   "there's a man who has the whole weight of the world on his shoulders."   
   Yet, it was true. George had to take care of an invalid wife, a disabled son   
   and proudly spoke of his ventures on 3977. There was a time when I wanted to   
   call it quits but upon hearing about George's daily plight. There was a man   
   whose problems far    
   weighed mine and his elucidations were humbling.   
      
   One of the funniest stories was an incident when a novice ham (I knew who it   
   was) came into a QSO when Mark and George were conversing a neophyte operator   
   broke into their QSO.   
   George accepted the neophyte operator however, when the novice turned on   
   a vocal effects processor (one that Art Bell used to use), George exclaimed,   
   "Please turn it off...and don't do it again!").   
      
   And so we part from this Earth we leave the master Mozart to musically   
   exemplify the life of George Beach, beloved operator of 3.977   
   (please put the following quote into YouTube to hear our musical tribute.)   
      
   "Mozart Clarinet Quintet K. 581 - 4th Movement: Allegretto con Variazioni"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)