This is truly sad news. He will be missed.
Dave Marthouse
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On 3/20/2021 8:57 PM, matt blaze wrote:
Oh, how utterly awful. Just terrible.
Thanks for passing along this tragic news.
-matt
On Mar 20, 2021, at 8:50 PM, rdange...@aol.com
<mailto:rdange...@aol.com> wrote:
I wasshocked and saddened to learn ofGeorge Zeller's sudden passing
earlier today(March 20) in a house fire this morning. I had exchanged
emails with Georgeearlier this week on NASWA editorial mattersas he
was slowly recoveringfrom his recent Covid-19 vaccination. The news
article in the online Cleveland Comeback mentioned
overcrowdedelectrical outlets/extension cords as the cause of the
accidental fire. George was 71 years old.
George and I knew each other for about 40 years. George came to
several DXpeditions at Gifford Pinchot and French Creek State Parks.
We attended many of the same radio hobby gatherings over the years.
For several years, I traveled to Cleveland for work; George and I
would go out to dinner on those occasions.Naturally, any time my
company was mentioned in the local newspaper George would
eagerlyforward that information to me. George also traveled to the
Winter SWL Festival in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania each year to
gather with like minded radio people. He attended other radio
conventionstoo over the year’s throughout the country.
George was well known in the greater Cleveland area as an Economist
who kept close tabs on the Ohio economy. The Economic Indicators
project he worked on provided continually updated information on
poverty, earnings, and the economy in all Ohio counties and
communities, with related demographics. In Ohio, Economic Indicators
data include annual income trends for all 612 Ohio school districts.
Detailed data was also available for job growth and payroll earnings
in all Ohio counties going back to 1979, including measures of the
very large job losses suffered by Cleveland and Ohio during the 2000s
recession that has lingered longer in Ohio than it did elsewhere in
the United States. Over the year’s he mixed with local political
figures and served as a volunteer in a number of community
organizations serving the greater Cleveland area. He was a regular on
several talk radio programs when Ohio’s economy was the lead topic.
George was an active baseball and football fan. He attended baseball
games wherever he could. He spent time traveling to difference
citiesattending games in many major league and minor league baseball
stadiums. I recall making such a trip to Camden Yards in Baltimore
with several others to catch an Orioles-Yankees baseball game when my
children were youngsters. He was an enthusiastic Cleveland Indians
and Cleveland Browns fan going back to the glory days of the 1950’s.
He never forgave the Indians for trading away Rocky Colavito.
For twentyyears Georgewrote a column aboutunlicensed pirate and
clandestine shortwave radio broadcasting news in Monitoring Times
magazine. He wasalso a contributing editor to Passport to World Band
Radio, the definitive guide to international shortwave broadcasting
frequencies, schedules, and receiving equipment. For decades hewrote
a column on Clandestine radio broadcasting in the monthly issues of
The ACE from the Association of Clandestine Radio Enthusiasts.
Annually, he hosted the Pirate Radio Forum at the Winter SWL Festival
in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania as well as being the host of the
prize raffle at the Saturday night banquet.In recent years, George
was the editor of the Pirate Radio Report column for the North
American Shortwave Association. He joined NASWA in December 1965as a
lad of sixteen.
Georgewas always fun to be with and a real character to boot. No
matter what the topic of the conversation was, he had a story that
may or may not have been pertinent. There was never a dull moment
when he was part of the group. George Zellerwill be missed by all of us.
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