[BC] Frank Grill...

[Burt I. Weiner]

Gary,

Your description of Frank could not be any more correct.  When he and 
I worked on a project together he was like a little kid in his 
enthusiasm.  It was indeed infectious.

One day not to long ago Frank and I were sitting in my car waiting 
for the Spectrum Analyzer to capture an intermittent spurious 
signal.  While we were waiting, the subject of GPS and WAAS came 
up.  As you know Frank was quite a navigator and had taken many 
courses on the subject.  He pulled the little pad of paper out of his 
pocket - you know the one he always carried, and drew some charts and 
curves representing the variations between the different Datums 
used.  That little piece of paper is sitting in front of my computer.

Burt

At 10:00 PM 2/14/2006, you wrote:
>From: Gary Blau <gblau at w3am.com>
>Subject: Re: [BC] Frank Grill's passing...
>To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
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>One of the greatest experiences of my life was to have had the honor and
>pleasure of working with Frank, exceeded only by the even greater
>treasure of calling him a good friend.  He was in love with science and
>learning new things, and did a fabulous job of teaching, too.  His
>enthusiasm was infectious, fed by a depth of knowledge and width of
>interests that seemed unlimited.
>His passing is a terrible loss.
>
>g
>
>"Burt I. Weiner" wrote:
> >
> > ...Frank was a great mentor as well as a close personal friend.  After
> > his retirement he went on a lot of my projects with me.  One of the
> > most knowledgeable engineers I've ever known who was also a Physicist
> > by nature.  A very gentle and kind man.  Whenever he'd come over my 2
> > horses, 3 cats, Velcro the squirrel and Oliver the Opossum would
> > always come out to greet him...

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