Report of Todd’s passing

[Blackswan73]

There is a thread on Todd’s site posted by someone who says he is Todd’s brother, saying that Todd has died. The Nano pages and accessories and support pages are gone from the BTT website. A sad day indeed if true. My condolences to his family

B.S.

 

[Blackswan73]

Todd was 55 years old. He leaves behind no wife or children. His brother said he took his own life. He will be sorely missed. His life was his radios and drones.

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[pro106import]

OMG that is so sad. I had many QSO's with him when he was first developing the P25RX. A true gentleman and a real genius. I can't believe this,

 

[mikewazowski]

Wheres Todd? (forumotion.com)

 

[vince48]

I'm very sorry to hear this news.

 

[N4GEX]

Awful news. I purchased a Nano from him just last month, and I was looking forward to seeing what else he had in store for the future. My condolences to his family.

 

[prcguy]

Wheres Todd? (forumotion.com)

Sorry to hear of Todd’s passing and WTF is up with one of the comments in the link?

 

[KC1UA]

Very sorry to hear this. We exchanged numerous PM's here and I tried to help him with some of the early development of DMR for his P25RX's. Condolences to family and friends.

 

[Blackswan73]

Sorry to hear of Todd’s passing and WTF is up with one of the comments in the link?

Good question. Unfortunately Todd was the only moderator. So no one else can deal with it

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[RFI-EMI-GUY]

Sorry to hear of Todd’s passing and WTF is up with one of the comments in the link?

Yeah I read that as well. Terrible stuff. May that person rot..

 

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

A big loss. He was a genius.

 

[Blackswan73]

A big loss. He was a genius.

Yes, I know, I have a Nano to prove it. I would have been interesting to see how the P25RXIII turned out. He had lot of great ideas. Unfortunately, I don’t believe it ever progressed beyond the drawing board stage.

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[1969Roadrunner]

Man what a terrible loss of a genius.
Still use his scanners everyday. Todd has always been friendly
and helpful to me. R.I.P.

 

[bagmouse7]

This is terrible news and very sad to hear.
Todd single handedly built the hardware and software for his BlueTail products.
This is an impressive achievement and demonstrates his intelligence, dedication and hard work.
It is sad we won't get to see any of his future products.
Todd will be missed...

 

[n9ihx]

Sorry to hear this he seemed very positive about going back to full time with Bluetail and working on his new projects.

 

[K9DAK]

Man what a terrible loss of a genius.
Still use his scanners everyday. Todd has always been friendly
and helpful to me. R.I.P.

Yeah, same here. I had an issue a couple years ago after a software update where my BTT software refused to detect my P25RXII. Todd and I had a remote session where he looked into what was happening on my end, saw the issue, and within minutes pushed a new version that fixed the problem. It's been working perfectly ever since. RIP Todd.

 

[Blackswan73]

I have most of his software and firmware for most of his products archived. Unfortunately, he took down all the Nano files before he died, so I don’t have the latest firmware and software for the WIO and Nano. I do have some experimental firmware for Nano and WIO that was never posted on the website. I have also archived most of the website.

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[shirsch101]

I do have an active website address for Todd’s site for all the Nano and WIO firmware. Does the GitHub repository still have all of his of his work. Not knowing how long his website or his forum will be online it would be great if someone could open a forum for Todd’s devices and software discussions and help between all of us? We all loved Todd’s work and it would be nice to keep his products alive. Any volunteers?

 

[Blackswan73]

I downloaded all the files that are currently on the BTT site, and archived all the pages still up. Could you PM me a link to the Nano and WIO firmware?

B.S.

 

[mikewazowski]

it would be great if someone could open a forum for Todd’s devices and software discussions and help between all of us?

You can continue discussing his products here if you wish.