Losing another SARA member, Karen Jensen, died January 11th

[Charles Osborne]

Many of us lost a friend recently, Karen Jensen. I got this email from her sister.

 

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Charles:

This is Donna Eyring, Karen's sister.

I'm sad to tell you that Karen passed away on the morning of Jan. 11.
She had massive bleeding, possibly caused by ruptured blood vessels in
the esophagus, and doctors were unable to save her.

I know that radio astronomy and the exchanges with members of SARA was
one of the joys of her life.  (And I think we met several years ago
when I was passing through North Carolina with Karen. )

My mother said she believed that the HAM radio setup came from you, and
she wasn't sure whether Karen had paid you for it. If not, please let
us know. We would also be glad to return it to you or welcome other
suggestions.

(And your question about the tennis ball launcher may explain a piece
of pipe I found on the back porch. I can send you a photo of that to
see if you want that too!)

Donna Eyring

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and in later years as Karen Jensen in this picture at SARA's Arecibo Observatory conference in 2004 I believe:

 

 

 

With recent world events getting her interested in having a ham license, she dug into it with typical Karen Jensen furvor. She made it from no license in August, all the way to amateur Extra class in December .She also managed to get her father's 1950's callsign W3USL as a vanity call. So that all worked out well, with it bringing her much pleasure. She was having a blast experimenting using a tennisball launcher to put dipole antenna supports up in trees on their farm in central  Pennsylvania.

 

Her life left little undone that could be considered a bucket list, covering, private pilot,  NASA space shuttle engineer to Green Beret HALO jumper in Vietnam, to Nitrox rated cave diver, plasma physics and astrochemistry. And probably more that didn't make it to the short list summary of one's life.  SARA seems to have connected her with projects and people she enjoyed very much.

 

 

Janis and I will miss Karen as an interesting brilliant , scary smart person, one of my sources of deep chemistry knowledge when I had a question, and one who seldom dodged controversy with her insightful political and social commentary. She will be missed.

 

 

73,

Charles Osborne

K4CSO

[Richard Flagg]

Charles,

I'm very sorry to learn of Karen's passing.

Its good to know of the positive impact that SARA had on her life and the joy she found in radio astronomy and ham radio.

73,

Dick Flagg

AH6NM

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[David Fields]

Charles,
Thanks for letting us know.  Karen's friendliness, enthusiasm and accomplishments remain an inspiration -- I'm glad I got to know her through SARA.

73
David Fields

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From: Charles Osborne <k4...@charter.net>
To: sara-list <sara...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wed, Jan 30, 2013 4:20 am
Subject: [SARA] Losing another SARA member, Karen Jensen, died January 11th

[Randall family]

Sad to hear of Karen's passing.  Karen was an interesting character.  She was a little eccentric like most of us, and very intellegent.  She was the one of few  I met who understood why spectral line happen at a detailed level.  She will be missed.

Bruce Randall

[John Mannone]

I too am saddened by Karen's passing. A great mind, a caring person. I
remember that photograph at Arecibo. It was Dec 2004 when SARA had a
regional conference in Puerto Rico organized by Wanda Diaz. I will keep
Karen's family in prayer.

John

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[Bruce Rout]

How very sad. A great loss.

-Bruce