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JANET MARGELLI.  THERE DIDNT SEEM TO BE ANYTHING THAT DID NOT INTEREST HIM,
SHE SAID.  MARGELLI IS REMEMBERED AS SOMEONE WHO JUST LOVED PEOPLE AND
LOVED ENTERTAINING THEM, SHE SAID.  IN MAY 2005, MARGELLI TOOK AMATEUR
RADIO TO GLOBAL LATE NIGHT TV.  ON AN EPISODE OF THE TONIGHT SHOW, HOST JAY
LENO PITTED MORSE CODE AGAINST SMS TEXT MESSAGING TO SEE WHICH WAS A FASTER
WAY TO COMMUNICATE.  MARGELLI WENT UP AGAINST THE US CHAMPION CELL PHONE
TEXT MESSENGER.  LONGTIME FRIEND KATIE ALLEN, WY7YL, SAID THAT MARGELLI
DIDNT FEEL PRESSURE TO PERFORM FOR THE GLOBAL AUDIENCE NEARLY AS MUCH AS HE
DID FOR FELLOW HAMS.  HE ALWAYS TOLD ME THAT IT WAS KIND OF THROWN TOGETHER
AT THE LAST MINUTE.  THE BIGGEST PRESSURE WAS THAT DAYTON HAMVENTION WAS
RIGHT AFTER, AND IF HE BLEW IT, HE DIDNT WANT TO SHOW HIS FACE AT THE
EVENT, SAID ALLEN.  HE DIDNT BLOW IT MARGELLI AND HIS PARTNER, KEN MILLER,
K6CTW, BEAT THE SPEED OF THE TEXT MESSENGERS.  MARGELLI WAS A 2018 INDUCTEE
OF THE FIRST CLASS CW OPERATORS CLUB, A 2021 RECIPIENT OF THE ET KRENKEL
MEDAL, AND WAS INDUCTED INTO THE CQ AMATEUR RADIO HALL OF FAME IN 2006.  HE
WAS A LIFE MEMBER OF AMSAT AND THE QUARTER CENTURY WIRELESS ASSOCIATION.
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