<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">I agree with Mike, he was a good friend and a friend to all he communicated with. Life delt him lots of challenges and yet he found a way to get around and survive them. Fair winds and following seas old friend.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Steve Wendt</div><div dir="auto">KB9RDS</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent via the Samsung Galaxy A10e, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" dir="auto"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Robert Thompson <rwthompson@tds.net> </div><div>Date: 12/7/19 11:30 (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: IRC News <ircnews@indyradioclub.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [IRCNews] K9RAG, Richard Gerber SK </div><div><br></div></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>I heard Richard on the air a lot. I agree, He will be missed.<br></div>
<div>R.I.P. K9RAG</div>
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<div>Bob Thompson</div>
<div>KB9PGG</div>
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Description automatically generated" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D5ACEF.BBEC1470" width="215" align="left" height="251" data-mce-style="width: 2.2395in; height: 2.6145in;" data-mce-src="cid:image001.jpg@01D5ACEF.BBEC1470" onmouseover="imageMousePointerUpdate(true)" onmouseout="imageMousePointerUpdate(false)">K9RAG, Richard Gerber, was known widely across Marion County on the air. He was always there to share his opinion, as others did. </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Richard was active in most of the ham radio assisted operating events such as the Mini Marathon, 500 Festival Parade, ADA Tour-de-Cure, Indpls Half Marathon, along with others.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">He hung out on the 146.700 Repeater and was very active with Skywarn, mostly being the liaison from the local net on the 146.760 to the statewide net on the 146.970.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Being blind did not stop Richard from doing anything he set out to do. He volunteered for pretty much everything. </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The past few years, Richard owned and operated a vending machine refilling business which kept him busy enough to be off the radio a lot.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">His voice will be missed --- 73 Richard, you were a good friend.<br clear="all"></p>
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