In Memory of
Steven L. Burleson
KD6YCB
1956 - 1999






Steve became my friend back in the early '90s, when I first started playing around with Citizen's Band radio. He was one of the friendliest people I ever met. Later we, and most of our friends, became ham radio operators. ( I was with Steve the day he passed his exam for general and I can still remember how happy he was. )While he and I would sometimes get very angry and foolish, we always remained friends and we always cared about the well being of the other. Even if we were in the middle of one of our feuds, we still kept tabs on each other and stayed in touch. Steve was a person who always knew and stayed in touch with a lot of people. ( I wouln't know one fourth the people I know today if it were'nt for Steve and his insistance on introducing me to a lot of people. ) Steve helped me thought some very tough times and I will always remember him.
 


Goodbye Steve
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With ear tilted to the crackling speaker
I'm tuning across faint stations on the air.
Now I gently touch the vfo
trying to find a voice that isn't there.

After tuning and peaking all my antennas,
I can work any path short or long.
My equipment can drag from the ether any signal,
no matter if it is weak or strong.

By narrowing and shifting the bandwidth
I'm hoping that I might find
a signal that is so deep down in the noise
it lives only in the shadows of my mind.

The minutes pass, then turn into hours,
hours pass and turn into days,
tuning, listening everywhere with every trick I know
I cant find the signal in this radio haze.

I need to hear this particular voice.
To hear another wild and ambitious plan,
to hear designs for another field day, or antennas,
or the best used equipment deal ever found by man.

Dear friend, they say you are a silent key,
they say you have passed on.
And after all my futile attempts to seek you out
I must now acknowledge that you are gone.

I guess I’ll have to face this terrible truth,
it is a cruel and somber dose of reality,
you are QRT and never again will I QSO with
my very special friend, KD6YCB.
 
 


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