{"id":718973,"date":"2022-03-10T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=718973"},"modified":"2022-03-10T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T19:39:00","slug":"amsat-pioneer-ray-soifer-w2rs-sk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=718973","title":{"rendered":"AMSAT Pioneer Ray Soifer, W2RS, SK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Satellite pioneer Raphael \u201cRay\u201d Soifer, W2RS, of Green Valley, Arizona, died on March 1. An ARRL Life member, he was 79.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Licensed in 1955, Soifer was among those involved in founding the AMSAT organization. A native of New York City, he studied engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and then obtained an MBA at Harvard Business School. His career was in finance, serving a&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/view\/amsat-pioneer-ray-soifer-w2rs-sk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AMSAT Pioneer Ray Soifer, W2RS, SK<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ARRL&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite pioneer Raphael \u201cRay\u201d Soifer, W2RS, of Green Valley, Arizona, died on March 1. An ARRL Life member, he was 79. Licensed in 1955, Soifer was among those involved in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ARRL"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=718973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}