Gregg D. Miller, K0LVB, silent key
Gregg D. Miller, K0LVB, died Oct. 22, 1996, at his home in Marshalltown, Iowa. He joined the Radio Club of America in 1996.
Adapted from the RACOM website:
"He founded RACOM in 1972 as the culmination of his lifelong interest in radio. He designed a number of innovative communication systems. In 1993, Gregg acquired Enhanced Specialized Mobile Radio (ESMR) licensing and in 1994 began construction of a network that extends across Iowa, Western Nebraska and South Dakota and into Wisconsin and Illinois. The network enables wide area voice and data communications to and between public safety and governmental agencies and commercial enterprises.
"Gregg studied physics from 1960 to 1963 at Iowa State University. He served as chairman of the Iowa State University Engineering College Industrial Advisory Council. He served as chairman of the MWCA Council of PCIA and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Marshalltown Medical and Surgical Center. He was serving on the Board of Trustees for Buena Vista University. Gregg was an amateur radio operator (K0LVB) and a helicopter pilot."
You can read some additional information about Gregg at QRZ.com/K0LVB.
I often saw Gregg at conventions, and I visited him at least twice in Marshalltown. He told me of his early days selling radio equipment to public safety agencies. He said he used his helicopter to great advantage. When calling on sheriffs, he would fly into the county seat and land his helicopter in the courthouse square because it was common for the sheriff's office to be located in or adjacent to the courthouse. A helicopter landing in the square would draw a crowd, which would draw the local newspaper photographer, and Gregg would have his picture taken with the sheriff. Sheriffs being elected officials, they liked having the publicity, and Gregg would go to the head of the line for any salesmen wanting to see the sheriff.
An obituary published by the Marshalltown Times-Republican said Gregg was 64. It did not list his survivors, but it said that memorials may be directed to the family in his name for the Mashalltown Medical & Surgical Foundation for the construction of its Cardiac Cath Lab.
Gregg was highly successful, and he was generous to others with the benefits of that success.