Re: [IRCA] <robert @pietschs.net>

[robert Pietsch <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bill
Actually Pietsch is German which was Bob's heritage. He was 2nd 
generation American.
My given name is Marja Warger but here they call me Maria although it is 
my middle
name as well. My parents immigrated when I was ten so I can read basic 
dutch, understand it
and do try to write it to my two remaining uncles in Holland with the 
English Dutch dictionary
open online. English is much easier for me and fortunately both uncles 
can read and understand
English. I was pretty young so my dutch vocabulary isn't the greatest 
but I like trying when it
is something short.
Bob was one of the big boys. He and Don Kasky go back to 1961. I met Don 
and his
wife Eloise when we both had our first child which is 29 years ago now. 
DXing was definitely
Bob's hobby. And although he is gone his email is still active so it 
still gets posting. When I see
Don's name or something that get's my attention I read it and that's how 
I got onto the message
board. I had asked Don to notify everyone through the mailing list about 
Bob and am sure
not everyone saw it. A number of people emailed condolences and/or send 
cards. It was very
heart warming and meant a lot to me to hear how well liked he was.

keep in touch
Maria (Rocklin Rocket) as Bob was known.



bill kral wrote:

>Hi in Rocklin, Cal,How Goes it? Glad to see another
>Dutch Person on the site. From another post I see that
>your name is Maria.My name is Bill(Willem).I have seen
>Bob's entries but had no idea that the name Pietschs
>was also Dutch and I also did not mention that I am
>too.Small World.I have not been checking all of the
>posts so I did not notice if he had stopped posting on
>the site until reading your entry today,Sorry to hear
>that he passed away.I trust that he's with the Great
>World DXer in Heaven.Are you continuing where he
>stopped or just looking in sometimes? Sometimes I tune
>into Radio Nederland Wereld Omroep for an hour of news
>and info from Holland on my SW radio.With the German
>translation post I tried to get as much as possible
>but a few words were spoken too fast to pick up and
>convert.Its a bit odd that it was entered as it was
>recorded from the internet and even odder that
>somebody in South Carolina would be listening to that
>and then upload it on to the IRCA site.But then if he
>hadn't I would not be writing to you now.Strange how
>these things happen.I've been posting now for about a
>year and thrown in my bit into the mix and have had
>some good responses from the more sophisticated guys
>in the biz about what I have picked up on just normal
>but good portable radios sitting on the window ledge
>of my apartment to escape as much electrical noise as
>is possible.Anyway that's about the extent of my
>participation in the world of Dxing but sooner or
>later I hope to get something a little more like what
>the big boys are playing with.I hope that I'm not
>dragging this out too long so I'll kind of wrap this
>up and keep checking my inbox and maybe catch a word
>or too from you sometime.I almost posted this on the
>IRCA site but caught myself in time to enter your
>Email in the TO box before pushing the send button.I
>see that you can write in Dutch so if you like you can
>reply that way. Bedankt en de groete uit Victoria.---jwkral@xxxxxxxx
>
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