{"id":6043,"date":"2012-04-02T21:56:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T03:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=6043"},"modified":"2012-04-02T21:57:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T03:57:02","slug":"silent-key-fred-maia-w5yi-march-28-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=6043","title":{"rendered":"Silent Key &#8211; Fred Maia, W5YI &#8211; March 28, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6044\" style=\"width: 155px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6044\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6044\" title=\"W5YI\" src=\"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/W5YI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/W5YI.jpg 145w, http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/W5YI-111x200.jpg 111w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 145px) 100vw, 145px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo courtesy of ARRL.org website<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The holder of one of the best-known US Amateur Radio call signs, Frederick (Fred) Maia, W5YI, died of cancer Wednesday, March 28. He was 76 and was a resident of Arlington, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Fred was a leading Amateur Radio journalist for nearly 35 years and a pioneer of the volunteer examining program adopted by the FCC in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Maia published \u201cThe W5YI Report,\u201d dubbed \u201cAmerica\u2019s Oldest Ham Radio Newsletter,\u201d from 1978 to 2003, and has been a CQ contributing editor since 1985. His regulatory affairs column, first titled \u201cTicket Talk,\u201d then \u201cWashington Readout,\u201d offered news and perspective on FCC Regulations and ITU actions. His final column will appear in the May 2012 issue of CQ.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6045\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"w5yi_group_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/w5yi_group_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>After the FCC adopted volunteer examining for all levels of Amateur Radio licensing in 1984, Fred became the first Volunteer Examiner Coordinator (VEC) appointed by the FCC. Fred subsequently founded The W5YI Group in 1986 to develop, publish and sell amateur and commercial radio license study materials. In the realm of FCC commercial radio licensing, Fred formed National Radio Examiners to provide examination services.<\/p>\n<p>Maia served as President of the W5YI-VEC until his retirement in October of 2000 when he sold The W5YI Group study material products to Master Publishing, Inc. The retail operations were purchased by General Manager Larry Pollock, NB5X, newly appointed President of the W5YI-VEC and National Radio Examiners organizations. Maia continued writing \u201cThe W5YI Report\u201d newsletter until July 2003<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/view\/fred-maia-w5yi-sk\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story here on ARRL.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holder of one of the best-known US Amateur Radio call signs, Frederick (Fred) Maia, W5YI, died of cancer Wednesday, March 28. He was 76 and was a resident of Arlington, Texas. Fred was a leading Amateur Radio journalist for nearly 35 years and a pioneer of the volunteer examining program adopted by the FCC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[147],"tags":[688],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6047,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions\/6047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}