{"id":10342,"date":"2018-06-15T13:13:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T21:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=10342"},"modified":"2018-07-22T16:06:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T00:06:29","slug":"silent-key-lamar-ray-wa7lt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=10342","title":{"rendered":"SILENT KEY: LAMAR RAY – WA7LT"},"content":{"rendered":"

wa7lt memorial brochure cover<\/a><\/p>\n

The memorial was held at:
\nUnitarian Universalist Church
\n4340 W Ft George Wright
\nSpokane, WA 99225<\/p>\n

Saturday, July 21 @ 2pm<\/p>\n

The obituary from the July 15, 2018 Spokesman Review:<\/p>\n

Charles Lamar Ray was born in 1933 to Miles Rufus Ray and Ruby Mowdy Ray in Detroit Michigan.He passed away on June 2, 2018 in Spokane, WA.<\/p>\n

Lamar was an avid Ham Radio Operator, obtaining his first Federal Communication License in 1948. He was known in the Ham Radio community as C. Lamar Ray WA7LT (ex: K9CUY and W9LT). Lamar was a founding member of the Fort Wayne, IN DX Association and the Spokane, WA DX Association. He was also a member of the Potomac Valley Radio Club.<\/p>\n

An active DXer and especially a Contester, he was an operator at the K2GL super-station during the 60s as well as many other contesting venues; some of which he hosted. Lamar was an ARRL Life Member and an ARRL member for over 70 years.<\/p>\n

He graduated from University of Michigan in 1956 earning a BS in electrical engineering. Most of his working career was with Magnavox. His work assignments took him to the Washington DC area as well as to Italy.<\/p>\n

A memorial service will be held on July 21, 2018 at 2:00 PM at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane.<\/p>\n

Be prepared to tell your favorite \u201cLamar stories.\u201d<\/p>\n

The gathering will be informal with refreshments after\u2026including his favorite fruit bowl salad!<\/p>\n

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\nLamar as featured in the October, 2006 picture for the CQ Magazine 2006 calendar<\/p>\n

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\nLamar doing what he liked best – contesting<\/p>\n

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\nLamar showing the SDXA-sponsored plaque for the Salmon Run contest that he won in 2014 <\/p>\n

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\nRunning a CQ SSB WW DX contest from his home as a Multi-SIngle. left to right: Stephen K7AWB, Kirk K7EKM, Randy K7TQ, and Lamar WA7LT <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

August 10, 1933 – June 2, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silent-keys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}