Bob Hunsucker
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Hunsucker retired in 1988 but continued conducting research and writing papers through the first decade of the new century.
More online about Bob Hunsucker:
- and remembrance in the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
- in the Jan. 27, 2014, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
- followed by a piece he wrote in 2002 describing his nearly lifelong involvement with ham radio