{"id":4206,"date":"2019-10-31T10:27:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T17:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2019-10-31T12:14:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T19:14:56","slug":"jim-kyle-k5jkx-1931-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=4206","title":{"rendered":"Jim Kyle K5JKX 1931-2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercer-adams.com\/obituary\/jim-kyle-jr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">An old friend and a great talent has left us: Jim Kyle K5JKX<\/a>, author of a fair number of books that go back a <em>long<\/em> way. I&#8217;m not certain how I know, but I&#8217;m pretty sure that he wrote his first book in 1952&#8211;the year I was born, and I&#8217;m not a young man. He started in the book trade early and worked it for most of his life. I never met him in the flesh, though we corresponded back into the 80s, if I recall correctly. He wrote books on radio and electronics (<em>lots<\/em> of them!) until there were personal computers, and then pivoted to personal computers. I have his <em>Transistor Etched Circuit Projects<\/em> from 1969, and until I had to shrink my library severely when we moved down from Colorado to a smaller house, I had others, including <em>PC Interrupts<\/em> (with Ralf Brown) which served me <em>very<\/em> well in the DOS era. I&#8217;m absolutely sure I have several more of his electronics and radio titles, though a lot of those are still in a box for lack of shelf space. I&#8217;m going to dig them out ASAP and take a good look through them.<\/p>\n<p>His son Tony Kyle is also a good friend, and although I haven&#8217;t yet met him in the real world either, he isn&#8217;t far and I intend to do so while we&#8217;re both still here.<\/p>\n<p>73&#8217;s Jim. You taught me a lot, long before you ever became my friend. Godspeed you on your journey to Eternal Light. &#8211;K7JPD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old friend and a great talent has left us: Jim Kyle K5JKX, author of a fair number of books that go back a long way. I&#8217;m not certain how I know, but I&#8217;m pretty sure that he wrote his first book in 1952&#8211;the year I was born, and I&#8217;m not a young man. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-4206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noneoftheabove","tag-eulogies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4206"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4210,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions\/4210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}