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Walter Read -- radio, antenna expert (432 words) |
 | Walter Read, a lifelong radio and antenna expert who built a crystal set at the age of 11 and helped develop military radar during World War II and microwave antenna systems after the war, has died. |
| Read continued to play the trombone in a small swing band, to take photographs and to help his son study and prepare for his own radio license test, which he passed. |
| Read is survived by his wife of 66 years, Marion of Los Altos, who was his former high school classmate; and by his children, Jim of Inverness and Billie Jean Gergis of Concord. |
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