Remembering Wayne Boone

I got the news that a former co-worker had passed away, Wayne Boone... it was shocking. I asked someone what happened and they said he had pneumonia and sepsis and he didn't respond to medication. This is so sad.  I didn't know his name was Jasper Wayne Boone.  Wayne was an unassuming man who loved his work.  He was the contract engineer for a lot of radio stations in the region.  A lot of us radio people knew him.  Wayne was the kind of guy who would shoot the breeze and take the time to answer the question of the moment.

Wayne worked hard, but as Matt said he loved what he was doing and was good at it. He understood tubes, RF and other things that the computer geeks didn't understand. Matt worked with him and learned from him as well as Charlie Marlow and others. Radio engineers are a dying breed. The younger folk figure they can do something else and make more money with out the aggravation of being on call and having to go to a station when it storms to reset a computer or go out to a transmitter site that is in the middle of nowhere to put the station back on the air after a lightning strike. There are seveal engineering people I know including Matt who got stuck up on Flat Top mountain, or took the trams from Winterplace to get to the transmitter.   I don't know if Wayne ever did that.

Wayne will be missed. I just wish people would appreciate people more instead of waiting til after they are gone to say they appreciate them.  Wayne and I would talk about the old style radio. The reason why I chose that as a career path was it was fun. We talked about the changes from cart machines to computers. Things had changed so much.  What will those stations do without Wayne? Only time will tell. This is a lesson to all of us. Relax, take a vacation and enjoy your family.  

As I said before , if God hadn't of intervened in my behalf this could have been me, I was well on my way to working myself to death. I praise God for answered prayer....

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  1. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2012 at 11:27 PM

    It has been a year since my dad passed. I was missing him and listening to music..and googled his name. Thank you for the nice thoughts...and remembering how he touched others :)

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