W4HER 1941 Greensboro, North Carolina

Operator: Homer L. Apple
1921 - 2002

Homer had a good technical mind, inventor, teacher and family man.
Here is one of his inventions, the Iconoscope camara!

W4HER was Homer Lewis Apple of Burlington, NC. He was an amateur photographer as well as a ham. He worked for Western Electric during WWII in the development of an instrument landing system for use aboard US Navy aircraft carriers. He also worked for WE after the war, in Burlington, Greensboro, and the Bell Labs campus between Greensboro. After retiring from WE / Bell Labs, he taught electronic engineering at Guilford Technical Community College. Homer was an avid homebrewer and a real perfectionist; his projects are works of art. Homer passed away in 2002 of Alzheimer's. His wife, Helen became a SK on December 20, 2015. Her callsign was W4VGO.

Some of W4HER QSL Cards are up on HamGallery which can be found via the QSL search engine!

QSL courtesy of W2VRK
Info courtesy of W8SU
Tribute courtesy of Mike Everette, updated by K8CX