R.B. (Bob) Kerr GM8CFL / GM4FDT-SK
Bob Kerr died aged 80 in Invergordon on 27 Nov 2023. He had been an active member of the LRS in the 1960s & 70s and had a career with the BBC in Glasgow.
Photos above from Scottish VHF Convention 1969. (GM4FDT 5th from left)
Click for Ross-shire Journal Death Notice.
Click for 1969 VHF Convention article with photos.
Click for Practical Wireless article on Valved Receivers.
Click for P.W. article "What a Good Idea" - p.52
We are grateful to Shirley of Alasdair Rhind, Funeral Directors, Tain, for these photographs from Bob's funeral order-of service:
Bob "Robin" Kerr GM4FDT.
Bob GM4FDT with group of friends, likely members of the Royal Naval Lifeboat Institution, Invergordon Branch, with which he was active.
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I knew Bob very well in Glasgow in the early 70s as GM8CFL He shared a flat with Alistair Mitchell GM3UDL (SK) at Buckingham Terrace, round the corner from the Beeb. I had a bedsit close by. There was a 14 ele Parabeam on the roof. Bob always looked lets say, a bit sleazy, maybe the glasses and grin or the Brylcremed hair. One day I got on the Subway in Glasgow with Rhona, then my girlfriend. This man in a grubby brown raincoat sat down opposite. Rhona was horrified when I started speaking to him like a long lost brother. She hadn't got used to the strangeness of radio amateurs at that time .
Here's a group of "interesting" radio amateurs from the WoSARS site.
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