[IRCA] John Bryant

[D1028Gary@xxxxxxx]

Hello All,
 
The unpleasant news of John's sudden passing comes as a deep personal  
shock to both Guy Atkins and me, since we both knew him very closely, and  have 
enjoyed years of his close friendship and guidance. This has included  joint 
DXpeditions, joint technical projects, article drafting partnership, etc.  
Although Guy certainly enjoyed a much longer friendship with  John, during 
the past two years John and I had become very close in our  cooperative 
partnership to found, organize, promote and direct the Ultralight  Radio segment 
of the AM-DXing hobby.
 
John had a natural talent for organization, something that a wildly  
enthusiastic (but extremely diverse) ULR enthusiast group desperately needed in  
late 2007. Our small group was definitely outside of the "mainstream" of the  
AM-DXing community at the time, and many of the established DXers viewed us 
with  a high degree of skepticism-- doubting even the concept of serious 
DXing with  pocket radios. To John's credit, although he was certainly one of 
the  "established DXers," he kept an open mind about our enthusiastic 
movement,  and discovered (like most of us) that Ultralight Radio DXing was indeed 
 thrilling... thrilling enough to rejuvenate his interest in the hobby  
itself.
 
Freely donating his superb organizational talent to the Ultralight Radio  
cause, John was instrumental in the creation of the Definitions Committee,  
Awards Committee and Contest Committee. When the Yahoo Ultralightdx group was 
 founded in early 2008, John's expertise and experience were essential in  
establishing the vibrant and fast-growing forum that we enjoy today. John 
and I  constantly shared ideas about the challenges facing the Ultralight  
Radio movement, such as the impending exhaustion of file space on the  booming 
Ultralightdx site. Although we occasionally had our differences of  opinion, 
we enjoyed a very deep level of mutual respect, based upon our  cooperative 
success (along with many others) in building up this vibrant  sub-group of 
the AM-DXing hobby. Ironically John had recently made the decision  to 
become a full-time resident of Washington state, and both Guy and I were  looking 
forward to spending more time with him.
 
There isn't much more to write at this point, since like Guy I am still in  
a state of shock over this very unpleasant news. Please join us in  
expressing your condolences to his family, when the details of the ceremony are  
posted.
 
Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA) 
 
  
 





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