[BC] Obit: Bill Hoyt, FM transmitter designer at Gates Radio

[Mike McCarthy]

I had the pleasure of being mentored by Bill in the proper tuning and 
debugging of a 20H3 when I was green as the grass at KGRC (1988-89), 
just down the river from the Harris plant. Bill was semi-retured at that 
point and he'd come out when I really need help in figuring out what 
ailed that beast. He was a patient gentleman as I recall and offered 
kind words when I did something right or gentle guidance when I didn't. 
He was around when radio really mattered and what really mattered 
involved radio.

I'm sorry to hear of his passing.

Mike McCarthy

On 2/15/2012 7:49 PM, John Lyles wrote:
> OBITUARY
> William Abram "Bill" HOYT
> Quincy Herald Whig, Feb 14, 2012
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> COLCHESTER, Ill. -- William "Bill" Abram Hoyt, 89, died Tuesday (Feb. 7, 2012) in St. Louis.
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> He was born July 6, 1922, in Colchester, a son of Benjamin Franklin and Beulah Artemis Hoyt. He was baptized in First Christian Church, Colchester, in the 1930s. He married his sweetheart, Betty Jane Murphy, on Feb. 9, 1944, and they enjoyed 65 years of life together.
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