ON7GZ SK: a leading radio amateur always QRV

August Mariëns, Gust, ON7GZ, was currently honorary president of EURAO, where he also held the position of president since the approval of its first statutes in 2013, to whose first draft he contributed decisively, until 2015, when for health reasons he took a step down. Previously, he had also actively participated in the Promoters Committee of EURAO since its inception in 2009.

In his country, Belgium, he was also the architect of the union of several local associations; president of VRA; the promoter of maintaining good relations with the UFRC, which brings together radio amateurs from the French-speaking part of the country, with whom they even created the FRA, and also with the VRZA of the Netherlands; needless to say, he also cultivated good relations with the BIPT to advocate radio amateurs and amateur radio.

We have lost a man of clear ideas and an executive character, but the memory of him will last among us. RIP.