Hello.
Personally I'm not a radio operator.
Just a few days ago I decided to help search for unclaimed person on NAMUS (The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System), I found a Hawaiian-Japanese gentleman by name Alvin F Kanda was listed as recently passed and with no next of kin.
Something tug at my heart and I decided to help find his family. After rebuilding his genealogical tree I managed to find and rely a message to his next of kin, I am not sure if it will be acted on, at least I know they are informed.
But as I kept searching, I found that mr Kanda was an avid amateur (extra) radio operator who had different call sign from as early as 1960s.
His current, still licensed one is N7AK.
He was also an engineer who worked in Scottsdale, Arizona after he completed Bachelor Degree at Minnesota Uni - 1955 - Tau Beta Pi honorary engineering society. He build a transistorised Morse code keyer in 1960s and worked on circuits that used multiplexing.
In his later years he made digital art that uses C4D by Maxon. Here is his website:
https://maui-meshworks.com/mw_abtmmw.htm
(you can even find his renders of different radios)
I think he was basically a radio geek, like you guys. I wish someone could help me honour him in some way that was true to his character