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Lynn Allen Schriner, W5FO - Silent Key
Lynn was born March 21, 1939, in Great Bend, Kansas and grew up in Ponca City, Oklahoma. At the University of Oklahoma he studied Electrical Engineering, played trombone in the marching band and fell in love with Nancy Shorbe. Lynn served in the Army at Ft. Bliss, TX, and attended New Mexico State University before beginning his career in aerospace marketing. He worked on projects worldwide for Collins, Rockwell, Hughes, E-Systems, and Raytheon. Lynn obtained his ham radio license at age 14, and with a very primitive station, won the Novice Roundup for the Oklahoma Section. Amateur radio remained one of his many passions throughout his life. He set records and won numerous world titles as a keen contester, while making thousands of friends around the world over the airwaves as W5FO, W-zero-PCO and W5EQT. Lynn will be remembered always for his sense of humor, his generosity and his never failing enthusiasm. Lynn is survived by his wife, Nancy Schriner of Bella Vista, Arkansas; his daughter Julie Lazenby and her husband, Bill of Winchester, Virginia; his son, Scott Schriner and his wife, Sara, of Olathe, Kansas; his grandchildren, Camden and Madison Lazenby. Lynn is also survived by his brother Nolan Schriner and family of Colorado Springs, Colorado; his sister, Natha Haynes and family of Charlotte, North Carolina. A Memorial Service was held on Saturday, May 16, 2009, with close friends Tim / K5RA and Bill / W5SJ testifying to their many years of fun and friendship with Lynn. Bill & Tim's remembrances of our friend are summarized immediately following the photos below...
Lynn & pal Pete / N5TP on an early F.D. Lynn & XYL Nancy vacationing in FL In the W5FO Shack REMBERING LYNN / W5FO...
From Bill
Priakos-W5SJ/4:
When I moved to Dallas in 1988 one of the first things
I did was join a ham radio club. The members of this club's interest were to communicate with other hams
all over the world (DX'ers). I met Lynn Schriner then and grew to know him much better
when we worked together in the leadership of the club in the late 90's. You
KNEW when you were regarded as Lynn's friend when he would put his arm around
you and say " you're one of the good
guys". Lynn was certainly a good friend
to me; knowing how busy I am with work, five years ago, he volunteered to be the
"manager" of all of the requests for confirmation of ham contacts via "QSL"
cards, that I would make on yearly trips to the Caribbean and South America.
Before he started, I told him, "Lynn, you're retired, this will take a lot of
time. You don't need to
be fooling with this!". He replied, "put me to work". This took a great load
from my shoulders and he loved it. Of course, he did a great job. When Kathy
and I moved to Florida two years ago, Lynn and Nancy, on one of their annual treks to St. Augustine and the
Daytona 500, came by our place on the west coast of Florida. We had a fabulous
time. They invited us to come to St. Augustine this last February to spend some
time before the rest of the family joined them. Once during the trip, Lynn and
I were musing on the back porch of their condo, in a rare time when we were
serious, how some friends we knew whose family was estranged or just plain did
like one another and how lucky we were to have children and grandchildren who
actually liked to hang out with us. To Lynn and I, family is most important.
Clearly, to everyone around them, Lynn and Nancy were very much in love. And,
he just could not wait until the rest of the clan joined them for the Daytona
500.
In
addition to our devotion to family, we share three other areas of interest.
First, a passion for ham radio. We both began our ham careers as young
teenagers and just like I did to my younger brother, Chip, he would keep Nolan
awake as he would be "working" contacts far into the night. Then, Lynn and I
like to have a good time - he was always enthusiastic and up beat, ready for a
fun time. I know you have ALL heard him say, as a prospective activity was
discussed, his comment would be, "Let's DO it!". We DID have fun in St.
Augustine! Unforgettable! There was one more shared interest...now what was
it? Let me see. Yes, I remember ..... MARTINIS!
As we
remember the wonderful times we have had with Lynn, we salute "one of the good,
GOOD, guys". (Bill, W5SJ)
From Timothy L. Bratton K5RA 2009-05-16 at the memorial service for W5FO... My name is Tim Bratton. I live in Parker TX. I met Lynn the first time in an amateur radio contact in January 1973, about a month before I came to work at Electrospace Systems Inc. in Richardson. I had actually been associated with the family since I was 14, but I didn’t know that until I was about 54. Nancy’s father, an orthopedic surgeon practicing in Oklahoma City, had examined my spinal curvature in 1960. Lynn and I shared the hobby of amateur radio, and we both belonged to the Richardson Wireless Klub. Lynn was a highly skilled radio operator, and was a good organizer and motivator. He like participating in amateur radio operating competitions, called “contests.” I liked setting up stations for amateur radio Field Day. Lynn was a key member of the Richardson Wireless Klub Field Day team that placed in the top three nationally for many years against hundreds of competing clubs. Our acquaintance blossomed into a friendship after Lynn transferred to the Raytheon E-Systems Richardson operation following its purchase in 1996. Lynn was one of the best business development leaders I ever knew. He understood that we were not going to grow our business by waiting for programs to be announced in the newspapers. He made us understand that we had to establish and maintain personal relationships with our customers, and we had to get marketing intelligence about our new business opportunities. He and I spent many hours discussing our markets and our key customer contacts, and he worked hard to grow our business in some difficult times. Somewhere along the way, Lynn and I had discovered that we share the same birthday, March 21st. He was seven years ahead of me. We made an annual tradition of celebrating our birthdays by going to a nice restaurant with our ladies, or grilling steaks at home. As many of you know, amateur radio contesting was a big part of Lynn’s life. He earned his FCC Novice License fifty-five years ago in Ponca City OK. A few months later, in January 1955, using the most rudimentary station imaginable, a two-tube transmitter and a one-tube regenerative receiver that he built from kits, he placed first in the Oklahoma Section of the American Radio Relay League’s Novice Round-Up contest. He placed 15th nationally out of over 200 entries. That was the beginning. In his lifetime of contesting, he won hundreds of certificates for his high scores at the section, region, call-area, and national levels. Plaques and medals on his wall today testify to his besting all operators world-wide in Asian and Pacific contests. In November 1998, Lynn and I were going to operate a contest together, but he was too debilitated from a surgery to get out of bed. I operated his station all weekend, while Nancy kept me fed. Lynn would wake up, and occasionally ask Nancy to find out how I was doing. Because I wanted to do well for Lynn, I was motivated to continue operating with little sleep. I had the high score in the North Texas Section. I was honored that Lynn hung the certificate for my effort on the door of his station until he and Nancy moved up here. I admired Lynn because he was not obsessed with winning. He did not have to win…but he did have to be in the race. He worked domestic contests to help the Richardson Wireless Klub aggregate score, but he especially liked contests where he contacted other countries, which hams call “DX,” an old land-line telegraph term for “long distance.” His stations in Cedar Rapids IA, and Richardson and Murphy TX were equipped with tall towers and large antennas specifically for DX contests. He loved competing with other stations in the pile-ups for rare countries, and often made contact on his first call. He made over 300,000 contacts during his fifty-five years of operating. Lynn did not seem particularly interested in getting recognized for his operating achievements. Among the 35,000 confirmations of contacts that he has in his garage, he has at least one card from every current amateur radio country entity except two. Yet he never applied for the awards for which his collection of cards made him eligible. He could have been near the top of the DX Century Club Honor Roll, but he decided that he would not submit any credits until he had confirmations from all 338 country entities. While our main topic of conversation was usually ham radio, Lynn often talked about his family. He loved them. It was obvious from the way he spoke about Nancy, Julie and Bill, Scott and Sarah, and his grandchildren, Camden and Madison.He was kind and generous. We had to negotiate an agreement that I could pay every other time we went out. He supported me through trials in my personal life and tribulations at work. He had good sense of humor, and appreciated plays on words. He enjoyed mental exercises, including jig-saw puzzles, cross-word puzzles, and Sudokus. He was a good motivator. He knew how to win people to his side. I often heard him say, “You’re a good guy!” It’s amazing what positive effect those words can have. Lynn Schriner was the best male friend I ever had. I am going to miss him very, very much. (Tim, K5RA) Last modified: Fri May 29 11:04:14 2009 Does this page contain inappropriate content? If so, Report this page... |
Lynn Allen Schriner, 70, of Bella Vista, Arkansas became an SK on Wednesday, May 13, 2009, after a third battle with cancer.
