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On Aug 16, 2009, at 2:52 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Thanks for the story.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Ken Norton wrote:
>>> A future episode on zone-10 perhaps.
>>
>>
>> Back in the '90s I worked with a Wayne Wilke (KB5MDO for you Hams,
>> originally from Palestine Texas), who installed equipment and
>> trained users
>> on digital audio systems used in radio broadcast. He spent about
>> two years
>> in Prague setting up what was then the world's largest single
>> digital audio
>> system for Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty.
>>
>> Well, some guy decided he wanted to open up a BBQ joint in Prague.
>> Wayne
>> tried eating there one time and was so extremely disappointed that he
>> offered to help him master proper Texas BBQ. For the next year,
>> Wayne spent
>> as much time in the BBQ joint as he did at the office building (oh
>> the
>> stories there). By the end of that year, this place was absolutely
>> the
>> cat's meow in BBQ. I don't recall the name of the joint, but I
>> think it was
>> only two blocks away from RFE/RL headquarters.
>>
>> Wayne was an award winning cook and for years either won or was top
>> two or
>> three in chili cookoffs in Texas. He knew his stuff. I can attest
>> to the
>> fact that his chili was far beyond anything I've experienced before
>> or
>> since.
>>
>> Alas, he was a chain smoker and that caught up to him in late 1999.
>> He
>> passed in early 2000, not three or four months after being
>> diagnosed with
>> lung cancer.
>>
>> Wayne had the same personality as our own Walt. Both were
>> essentially
>> identical in nearly every way.
>>
>> One sad side note about Wayne. He played a mean pedal steel
>> guitar. After
>> years of longing for a top-notch steel, he finally bought a custom-
>> made unit
>> that took many months to get delivered. Yes, you guessed it. It
>> arrived a
>> month before he died. He did manage to tune it and he even turned
>> it on for
>> me to hear a note or two. But by that point he was so weak that he
>> couldn't
>> play it. It broke his heart in one sense. Other than his wife, I
>> was the
>> ONLY person to have actually heard him play a single note on it. We
>> were
>> good friends, and by that point not even I was able to recognize
>> him as the
>> cancer (and treatments) had ravaged his body.
>>
>> But Wayne, lived a dichotomy--he drank, cussed, smoked and lived what
>> APPEARED to be a hard life, but was actually devoutly religious, a
>> gentle
>> man (and a gentleman) and was one of the best Boy Scout leaders
>> you've ever
>> seen. Wayne did EVERYTHING in life. When asked what he never
>> accomplished,
>> he said "Nuclear Scientist--I always wanted to be a nuclear
>> scientist." But
>> the sparkle in his eye betrayed that. Wayne did everything from
>> riding
>> broncos to being a professional musician playing in orchestras. A
>> natural
>> talent that succeeded in everything he touched.
>>
>> So, when in Prague, and if you come across some Texas BBQ joint
>> that makes
>> the most awesome brisket and chili, now you know the back story.
>>
>> AG
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