[BVARC] Jerry Sevick -- SK

[Rick Hiller]

FYI - Rick - W5RH

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Dec. 1, 2009   Jerry  Sevick, W2FMI, became a Silent Key on November 29 
after a brief  illness.  Sevick was a renowned authority on antennas and
transmission 
line  transformers, and was active on the air until just days before 
his passing.  He was 90 years old. Sevick is best known among hams as 
author of  "Transmission Line Transformers," "Building and 
Understanding Baluns and  Ununs," and "The Short Vertical Antenna 
Handbook." He was also a prolific  author of magazine articles in both 
amateur and professional technical  media.

Jerry attended Wayne State University on an athletic scholarship  and 
was drafted by two professional football teams, but he became a U.S.  
Army Air Corps pilot in World War II and was introduced to radio and  
electronics while in the military. He also discovered ham radio, 
which  he often said changed his life, as he changed career goals 
after returning  from the war, going on to earn a Ph.D. in applied 
physics from Harvard  University. After teaching at Wayne State and 
working as a local weather  forecaster for WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Jerry 
went to work for Bell Laboratories  in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where 
he retired as Director of Technical  Relations.