Dieter "Diz" Gentzow - SK 03/03/2024
QRP Hall of Fame 2005
Co-Founder Flying Pigs QRP Club International
Former Owner of Kits and Parts - The Toroid King
Diz W8DIZ and Brian KB9BVN at FDIM 2001, working with Doug DeMaw's (W1FB) original Tuna Tin transmitter from the Ramada Inn. Ed Hare W1RFI had loaned the transmitter to the Flying Pigs QRP Club for the evening. The Flying Pigs made a lot of contacts that night. For the receiver Diz contributed one of his famous Multi-Pig Rigs and it worked great. Diz was a Co-Founder of the Flying Pigs QRP Club International along with Richard Powell WB6JBM (SK) back in 1999. Diz was elected to the QRP Hall of Fame in 2005. We learned of his passing this evening, and our deepest and heartfelt condolences go out to his beloved wife Nancy, and their families. Diz and I attended many FDIM events over the years, and he and some of the Flying Pigs came over from Ohio a few times to help us put on a QRP forum at the Hoosier Hills Hamfest in Bedford Indiana, usually camping at the event. The business that he and Nancy ran, Kits and Parts, probably supplied toroids and mixers, and projects to most of the building public in the Hamosphere. He will be greatly missed. The older I get, the more times I have to say goodbye it seems, and I don't think I will get used to it. I'm glad I got to know Diz. He was a good friend. de KB9BVN