Dave Cowley KD7DR
On 5/22/2016 8:53
PM, W7IXA wrote:
Hello folks,
I am very sad to
report that Dave, KD7DR has succumbed to cancer and has passed away this
afternoon at about 1500 Hrs. I have no
additional information at this time.
While we all will
miss Dave, I will certainly be missing him especially with all are various
projects, mountain top trips and the "T" hunting we did through the
years.
Dave has been a
great friend and advocate for SARBA and the Cactus Intertie system for many
years.
Regards, Doug, W7IXA
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OUCH! I am very
sad to hear this. We all thought he had lots of living ahead and was
pulling out of his surgery well.
Dave was always there
and ready to help.
Dave came out to
Guadalupe quite a number of times over many many years to fix something or
meet me so we could sweat an A/C fan motor change in August. He even
managed to tolerate a few of my multiple day - or rather night - site
trips. One Towers-Elden combo trip he even made a complete round trip
home from Towers to get an Astron, and still managed to put up with another
full day of rework on Towers followed by a drive to Elden. Another Towers
trip we decided to take the "direct " road down to the west to get to
Guadalupe - where we arrived at 5 AM. It wasn't quite as fast as we thought it
would be.
He even put me up a few
times at his place in some of my multi site runs, and went with me to the
next site - or more.
How many trips to
Pinal? Can't count that high without an Abacus.
Board projects - many!. and LOTS of efforts to make the system sound
right. Retrofitting 85 surface mount parts on each of 65
Palomar filter boards done by Dave and his lady- an
incomprehensible job for most of us..
Dave spent a lot of time
on "background" daily system
configuration management making things work better for all of us
73, Dave, and rest
well. We all miss you
Robin, WA6CDR
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I am so sorry to hear this - Dave was a great guy and a terrific ham. He was also far too young and vital.
I had the pleasure to work with him at both Motorola and Freescale until he retired, and always enjoyed his intelligence, wit, wisdom and attitude. Even after he retired, he was my go-to guy when I needed some RF thingee built and tested, as his skill with the tiny soldering station and microscope, and ability and means to test the widget afterward was unparalleled.
Before he retired from Motorola and Freescale, he was Mr. ZigBee and 802.15.4 board designer/builder extraordinaire for the Wireless Connectivity Operations (WCO) organization within the Wireless and Mobile Systems Group at FSL. He was part of the team that made the MC13213 (the most successful 15.4 chip in the market, through 2012, at least, FSL sold around a hundred million of them) and its descendants successful. When he wasn't talking RF board design, he'd tell us stories about his time in the USAF and the avionics systems of some of the birds he worked on.
When we moved to Arizona back in 2001, he was in my group at Motorola and on the BoD of SARBA, and made sure I joined up with and got involved with SARBA.
Dave Cowley, RIP.
Jon Adams N7UV
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As we have now all
been alerted of this life event.
I would like to
comment from my heart on Dave. I met Dave when I was young and now I am old,
but in the 40 years that I had the privilege to know Dave, I always thought he
was my friend, I was one of the many friends that Dave had in the Cactus
family. He was a person of impeccable character and was always willing to help
the cause. I spent many a trip with Dave and Doug on the mountain sites that
made up the SARBA network. I always enjoyed his company and candor, Dave always
spoke his mind and didn’t hold back on telling you, that you were not seeing
the whole picture. He was always ready to go when something was broken on a
site. Dave spent a lot of time with Ingo during his final days as did many
other members of our SARBA family.
Dave will be
GREATLY missed by our SARBA family and by CACTUS Intertie,,
and by me as a friend.
I have noted that
getting older has its benefits but it has the drawback of the losing the family
and friends around you that you cherish the most. DAVE you will be missed, REST
IN PEACE my FRIEND.
Regards
Chris Radicke, N7TWW
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Dave was my Elmer. He convinced me
to get my Ham ticket 13 years ago and has delivered much knowledge and help to
me ever since. I will miss him dearly.
Rest in Peace my friend and Thank
you.
I will see you again on the other
side.
Ed,
kd7yat
Really sad to hear the news of
Dave's passing, I remember talking to him on so many occasions and also working
alongside him on some packet projects and also seeing him up on the mountain
tops, particularly Pinal where every now and then there'd be a couple of work
parties up at the different ham sites.
RIP Dave, you'll be missed.
Dan GB/N7MRP
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I have known Dave
since he worked and lived north of here at Holloman AFB. He could hear the El
Paso cactus radio and really enjoyed what he heard. Then when he moved to
Phoenix, he got to know us all. What a guy. He joined up and immediately became
such a great asset to the system. He will be missed for sure. I am glad that I
got to spend time with him at Havasu.
73 my good friend…
Martin, WB5LJO
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Very saddened to
hear about this. Dave was a key player in our ability to expand our legacy site
controllers and he developed several new boards for them.
He was always
willing to listen to my ideas and he and I ALWAYS shared a laugh at every
meeting we were at.
Dave was quite an
engineer and the Intertie as a whole has lost a significant member, but more
so, a significant contributor.
My heart goes out
to his family. If they need anything at all, please let me know.
Godspeed, Dave.
Look forward to catching you on the other side.
73,
Chris
Baldwin/KF6AJM