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   ARLX009 Past ARRL Roanoke Division Director, Honorary Vice President Dennis   
   Bodson, W4PWF (SK)   
      
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   Special Bulletin 9  ARLX009   
   > From ARRL Headquarters   
   Newington CT  July 1, 2016   
   To all radio amateurs   
      
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   ARLX009 Past ARRL Roanoke Division Director, Honorary Vice President Dennis   
   Bodson, W4PWF (SK)   
      
   Past ARRL Roanoke Division Director Dennis Bodson, W4PWF, of Arlington,   
   Virginia, died on July 1. He would have turned 77 this month. Bodson had been   
   recovering from recent surgery, but his death   
   was unexpected.   
      
   An ARRL Life Member, Bodson announced his retirement from the ARRL Board of   
   Directors during the Board's 2015 Annual Meeting. Fellow Board members gave   
   Bodson a standing ovation in recognition of his years of service to the   
   League, and they elected him as an Honorary Vice President. Earlier in the   
   meeting, then-ARRL CEO David Sumner, K1ZZ, presented Bodson with his 60-year   
   ARRL membership certificate. Sumner said he was shocked and saddened to learn   
   of Bodson's passing.   
      
   "His service as Roanoke Division Vice Director and Director met a standard of   
   common sense and loyalty to the ARRL that in my experience has been seldom   
   matched and never exceeded," Sumner said.   
      
   Bodson served the League for more than 20 years - as Roanoke Division Vice   
   Director from 1993 through 2000, and as Director from 2001 until he stepped   
   down from the Board. He served on the Ethics   
   and Elections, Programs and Services, Administration and Finance, and   
   Executive committees. He also was the first chairman of the Board's   
   Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Committee, and Past ARRL President Kay   
   Craigie, N3KN, said Bodson's greatest contribution to the ARRL stemmed from   
   his work on that panel.   
      
   "The committee's new, proactive stance made it possible to prevent and avoid   
   what would have been a number of thorny problems for Amateur Radio operators   
   and to promptly address others," Craigie said. "Dennis never got the credit he   
   deserved for his leadership of this committee, because a bullet that's dodged   
   doesn't make the headlines."   
      
   "In addition to his technical wisdom," she continued, "Dennis was a delightful   
   colleague and a raconteur. His sense of humor was sly, dry, and sharp, and no   
   bush ever died from his beating around it. He always had something insightful   
   and/or funny to say."   
      
   Craigie said that Bodson was the Director when she moved into the Roanoke   
   Division 9 years ago, "and I was proud to be his constituent," she said.   
      
   Roanoke Division Vice Director Bill Morine, N2COP, served previously as North   
   Carolina Section Manager. "When I was a Section Manager, I was pleased and   
   amazed at the level of continued support I received from Dennis when he was   
   Roanoke Division Director," Morine said.   
      
   An electrical engineer and fellow of both the IEEE and the Radio Club of   
   America, Bodson retired in 1998 as Chief of the Office of Technology and   
   Standards of the National Communications System (NCS), US government agency.   
   He occasionally contributed to QST and QEX. "In 1986 he shared some of his   
   expertise in a four-part series of QST articles, 'Electromagnetic Pulse and   
   the Radio Amateur,' that has stood the test of time as the classic treatment   
   of this important topic," Sumner said.   
      
   His son Dennis A. Bodson, W3DZK, said arrangements are pending.   
      
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