Michael-SATX
Member
Hello with some sad news to report,
I am now listenning to Coast 2 Coast AM on our WOAI 1200 AM station in San Antonio, TX tonight
and radio host George Nooray just announced that Art Bell has died today at 72 years old at his home
in Pahrump Nevada,” the Sheriff’s Department in Nye County, Nevada has just confirmed this as true.
Many truckers and midnight oil burning folks worldwide were entertained and kept awake by his shows.
Art Bell became a licensed amateur radio operator at the age of 13. His first call sign
was KN3JOX, first listed in the Winter 1959 edition of the Radio Amateur Callbook.
Shortly after he soon upgraded to K3JOX, and he later held W2CKS, first listed in
the Spring 1967 Callbook. Bell holds an Amateur Extra Class License which is W6OBB.
Art Bells Okinawa callsign was KR6BK. Art Bell passed away on Friday the 13th 2018 !
To read more about his life history you can continue by clicking on this wikipedia link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Bell
https://heavy.com/news/2018/04/art-bell-dead-cause-of-death-dies-how/
I am now listenning to Coast 2 Coast AM on our WOAI 1200 AM station in San Antonio, TX tonight
and radio host George Nooray just announced that Art Bell has died today at 72 years old at his home
in Pahrump Nevada,” the Sheriff’s Department in Nye County, Nevada has just confirmed this as true.
Many truckers and midnight oil burning folks worldwide were entertained and kept awake by his shows.
Art Bell became a licensed amateur radio operator at the age of 13. His first call sign
was KN3JOX, first listed in the Winter 1959 edition of the Radio Amateur Callbook.
Shortly after he soon upgraded to K3JOX, and he later held W2CKS, first listed in
the Spring 1967 Callbook. Bell holds an Amateur Extra Class License which is W6OBB.
Art Bells Okinawa callsign was KR6BK. Art Bell passed away on Friday the 13th 2018 !
To read more about his life history you can continue by clicking on this wikipedia link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Bell
https://heavy.com/news/2018/04/art-bell-dead-cause-of-death-dies-how/