{"id":5778,"date":"2011-10-03T23:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T05:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=5778"},"modified":"2011-11-07T20:56:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T02:56:20","slug":"silent-key-tex-kennedy-n5tx-october-3-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=5778","title":{"rendered":"Silent Key &#8211; Tex Kennedy N5TX &#8211; October 3, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5780\" style=\"margin: 5px; border: black 5px solid;\" title=\"Tex Kennedy N5TX\" src=\"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/n5tx_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"106\" height=\"121\" \/>Earlier today (10\/3)\u00a0we received confirmation from persons close to the family of Tex Kennedy N5TX, that he had passed away this morning at the age of 87.\u00a0\u00a0 Tex was well known in the ham radio &amp; commercial radio community.\u00a0 Kennedy Communications over on Rigsby Road, was a tremendous support to the REACT Teams since the mid 80&#8217;s, supplying REACT with multiple GMRS Repeater sites &amp; equipment\u00a0on a very affordable site lease.\u00a0 Tex also operated KComm The Ham Store, and BK Tower company.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently in 2010, he allowed Hill Country REACT to change out their GMRS 462.600 repeater up\u00a0near Startzville,\u00a0for an Amateur Radio repeater on 445.500 mhz, which is now linked by IRLP to other area repeaters in Hays\/ Caldwell Counties via the &#8220;Devils Backbone&#8221;\u00a0 (where do they come up with these names?).\u00a0 Kennedy Communications was sold back in the early 2000&#8217;s (time?), but first they arranged for 99 year leases to be signed on behalf of REACT to preserve our GMRS repeater sites.\u00a0\u00a0 Only the original 462.675 site in NE San Antonio\u00a0is still on the air, due to the above mentioned change to the 462.600 site.<\/p>\n<p>As we find out more details regarding funeral arrangements, etc, we will be posting them here.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lee N5NTG<\/p>\n<h3>UPDATES RECEIVED 10\/04 &#8212;-<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>There will be a visitation\/viewing Thursday (10\/6)\u00a0from\u00a0\u00a04 &#8211; 8 PM<\/li>\n<li>There will be a\u00a0burial service\/burial Friday (10\/7) at 4:00 PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>All Services for Tex Kennedy will be\u00a0at:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Mission Burial Park South<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>1700 SE Military Dr<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>San Antonio, Tx<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Kennedy family suggests charitable contributions be made to:<br \/>\nFormer Students Assn &#8211; Texas A&amp;M University<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">73,<br \/>\nEd Larose, KS5V<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today (10\/3)\u00a0we received confirmation from persons close to the family of Tex Kennedy N5TX, that he had passed away this morning at the age of 87.\u00a0\u00a0 Tex was well known in the ham radio &amp; commercial radio community.\u00a0 Kennedy Communications over on Rigsby Road, was a tremendous support to the REACT Teams since the [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5778"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5803,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778\/revisions\/5803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}