Frosty also introduced me to the Belton hamfest which we attended many April and October Saturdays.

Frosty, myself and my xyl, Xenia also had lunch on many Saturdays at Dimassi's, the boat on Murphy Road and many other restaurants many times Laurent W0MM also met us and we swapped ham stories.

Frosty was much help on anything for ham radio providing advice on his experiences with antennas, radios, etc.

I'm going to miss you Frosty.

Ed Gerber, W5GCX

I only knew Frosty a short time. I met him at the first Greater Houston Hamfest that I attended and as a new ham I had a lot of questions about amps. He sat me down and explained amps in a way that I under stood. That was Frosty.  Fair winds and following seas my friend.

Gerald Muller, K9GEM

Difficult indeed, he was a great friend.

Dave, W5BXX

I knew Frosty slightly from when I lived in the Houston area and attended the TDXS meetings and occasionally I would would run into him at a hamfest. A couple of years back, I posted a commercial vertical on one of the ham sell-sites and he called wanting it for one of his African stations. At that time I had never used a commercial antenna so I didn't plan to use it and we worked out a price. He drove up from Houston to get it and was gracious as always. Kind of fun knowing the antenna I had is there in Africa now.  

I'm sure he's responsible for a lot of young hams entering the hobby, a lot of people understand amps much better, and most definitely for spreading the word about the Africa he obviously loved so much. I almost made that trip with him on several occasions but other things got in the way. I wish I had now. 

Good guy gone. 73. 

Michael Goins, K5WMG

Frosty came very close to signing me up for one of his African DXpeditions.  We did team up for a mobile Texas QSO Party run one year in Dave Topp's (W5BXX) motor home.  This was about three months after Frosty's wife passed.  He was a very kind man with a very peaceful demeanor and I ALWAYS enjoyed his company.

Henry, W5HNS

I am sad to read about Frosty's passing.  I always enjoyed talking to him at the TDXS meetings, especially about the Expert Amps. His family is in my prayers.

73, Buzz NI5DX

My dad, Fro Hotz, W5FY, now an SK, originally worked with M.B. Lampl who owned Lamp’s ‘Lectronics in San Antonio, the one and only ham store in San Antonio at the time. Guess this would had to have been during the mid-1950s. Lampl decided to sell his business and sold it to a fellow who opened up Modern Electronics on Broadway in San Antonio and my dad managed the ham department/industrial electronics department. If my memory serves me correct, it was probably around the late-50s when my dad hired Charlie Frost to wait on customers, stock the shelves, etc. at Modern Electronics. In those days, we all called him Charlie; not Frosty! ;-)) I can still remember Charlie being a young easy-going, happy-go-lucky type of “kid” who occasionally had to be reminded of his job responsibilities by my dad. The reason I say that is because I worked part time during one summer while I was still in high school and spent lots of time with Charlie. He was a real character!  Sometime, probably around the mid-60s, Modern Electronics was bought out by Perry Shankle, the RCA distributor in San Antonio, and my dad then became the manager of the industrial electronics department. Sadly, Perry Shankle did not want to include a ham department, so that pretty much spelled an end to a local ham radio store in San Antonio at the time. For the life of me, I can’t remember whether or not Charlie continued to work with my dad. I vaguely seem to recall that Charlie did work for my dad but I can’t be positive.

Rod, K5BGB

I will miss him greatly. He was a social friend and very helpful to me. 

John, W5UG / VK4UC

K5LBU (and me) –  A reflection -- Over the past 30 years Charlie and I did mostly ancillary work together – antennas, club stuff and a little business.   I met Charlie at ECHO in the mid-80’s.  Charlie held tailgate sales at his Mission Communications store at the end of the Andrau Airport runway on Cook Rd. Lots of folks attended.  Charlie had been in the seismic business years before, as I, and was supplying RF gear to the locally based geophysical companies.  That was quite often a discussion topic -- the excitement of seismic crew life.  He told me of his adventures on the Mobil marine seismic boats in the Pacific off the coast of W6.  I got to know Jeannie Frost a bit by working behind their Mission Comm. tables at local ham fests when they needed more help.  Fun stuff.  Occasionally, he and Jeannie would take off for West Africa for a few years, but I always heard from them via their letters from their ministry. 

Charlie was always very interested in any of the antenna experimentation work I was doing with full wave loops. I was very appreciative of his knowledge, as he was 11 years ahead of me in the hobby.  I wrote a story about the one time he and I (unsuccessfully) worked on his T8 at his house -- that was published in the K9YA monthly e-zine. 

He ran for President of BVARC in 2007 and ran the club for 2 years.  The current VP had to go to KL7 so Charlie asked me to step in.  During that time Charlie, would often head to Africa, leaving me to run things.  Charlie was a good president.  Always having concern for the club and especially its’ members and the “fun” of the hobby.  He instilled that in me and many others.  When he started Expert Amps, I volunteered to do his marketing graphics that he needed done to localize the information from Italy.  He was very appreciative of my work and presented me with a monogrammed Expert Amps hat.  When I would go to Dayton with my W3-land high school buddies,  Charlie would join us for dinner and tell us all about his DX-peditions.   Charlie and I traveled together to the International EME Conference in Irving Texas a few years ago.  We were both neophytes in the EME world and Charlie was trying to get info on doing 6 meter EME on his next DX-pedition to Africa somewhere.  We spent the weekend listening and talking EME and trying to figure out all of the new the acronyms (HI).   We both left that conference “knowing what we did not know”.  A step in the right direction, he said. 

One other thing that Charlie and I have in common – heart by-pass surgery.  That was also a topic of good conversation about the procedure, post-operative care, diets and doctors.  So, it was difficult to watch him slide downhill over the past few months.  When visiting with him recently, we would talk a little radio, a little business and there would be a little venting on his part, being land-locked in those places. It must have been tough. 

So, Charlie, I have enjoyed our Ham Radio times together.  I appreciate your friendship and I wish you safe keeping in the Lord’s hands.  May you always be 599.

73, my friend..…Rick – W5RH