[BC] Lost another one...

[Mark Croom]

We've enjoyed Jeremy at the Broadcasters Clinic the last few years, but Don
was *the man* as far as bringing good information with an entertaining
style.

Back when I was a young broadcast tech, during a presentation on updates to
EIA-222 (tower standards) he just about brought the house down with a
classic. The portion of the presentation in question was related to how the
standard varied depending on how stuff was distributed on a tower. He showed
a slide of a comm tower with lots of various dishes and other antennas
spread out up and down the tower while saying something like "...you would
describe this as a structure with more or less evenly distributed
appurtenances" (pauses looking briefly at podium) "and this would be an
example of unevenly distributed appurtenances." Somewhere around "unevenly"
and "distributed" in the script the next slide showed a well-endowed young
woman sunning herself on a (presumably) European beach wearing only the
bottom of her bikini.

So politically incorrect. There may have been one woman in the room at the
time (mid to late 80s, back at the old Holiday Inn SW). Today there are far
too many women in attendance at the Clinic for anyone to be able to get away
with something like that without some kind of ruckus being created.

I wonder if Don would have gotten a kick out of knowing that one of the
first things that comes to my mind when his name comes up is "unevenly
distributed appurtenances".

I'm just a little sick, actually ;-)

Mark
MN

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:40 AM, <towers at mre.com> wrote:

> >From one of my clients came some sad news:
>
> Start quote:
>
> Don Markley died last night in a Peoria hospital after a long fight with
> cancer.
>
> His partner, Jeremy Ruck, just called to let me know that arrangements are
> incomplete at this time.  A scholarship fund for EE students at Bradley
> University is being established, in lieu of flowers.
>
> End quote:
>
> I knew Don for about 20 years. He was the quintisential consultant.
>
> MM
>