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Contents of thir Journal are @2009 QCWA 

(Quarter Century Wireless Associaticn) 

DISCLAIMER: opiniom expressed by the authors 

of artic{es (ontributed to the Journal do not 

r€pre5ent {he official position of the Officers or 

Directors of the Quarter Century Wireless 

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REPORTS 

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arou,.nal 

www.qcwa.org . Summer 2009 . Volume 58, Number 2 

President's Messaqe - Bob Roske, NAUF 

General Manaqer's Reoort - Chuck Walbridqe. KI IGD 

Chapter Reports 

FEATURES 

QCWA 75-Year Award Reciplents 6 

WallMaxwell,W2DU - Larrv McCalW WA9JMO 13 

RandomRecollectio@ 46 

Four Bones 

Novice Hislorv, Part 6 - Cliff Cheng, Ph.D.. AC6C 49 

COLUMNS 

Rules and Reqs Diqest - John B. Johnston, W3BE 

DEPARTMENTS 

New Members 

Memorial Scholarship Fund 45 

Chapters On The Air 

Classified Ads 

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(IGWA Officers and Board of Directors 

President: Bob Roske, NOUF 

993 Hassan Street 5E., Hutchinson, MN 55350-3215 

Phone: 320-587 -3890, email: broske@hutchtel.net 

Vice Presidenf,' Kenneth'Ken' D. Oelke, VE6AFO 

729 Harvest Hills Drive NE, Calgary, AB, T3K 4R3, Canada 

Phone: 403-226-5840, emarl: ve6afo@3web.net 

Secretary: Walter Supina, N3WS 

525 Ridge Avenue, State College, PA 16803-3442, 

Phone: 81 4-238-3798, email: n3wsqcwa@grnail.com 

Treasurer: Frank Harris, WA PAM 

512 E Pasadena ,Ave, Clewiston, FL 33440-320 

Phone : 863-983 -3 800, e-ma i I : f char ris44@ embarqma il. com 

General Manager: Chuck Walbridge, KIlGD 

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Phone: 508-405-1 930-, FAX: 508-405-1965, 

email: qcwagm@rcn.com 

QCWA f,o*6 prg. - http:/lwww.qcwa.org 

Directors 

Le Roy Baldwin, WOOFY 

645 S. Mentzer Road, Robins, lA 52328-9703 

Phone: 319-395-7 183, email; lgbw0ofy@aol.com 

Val Erwin, W5PUT 

1419 Latigo Lane, Flower Mound, TX 75002-6588 

Phone: 81 7 -49A-61 22, emai I : da I lasqcwa@sbcglobal. net 

Carolyn Harrison, WBOOUM 

P.O. Box 467, Bolivar, MO 65613-A467 

Phone: 411 -771 -7777, email: wb0oum@arrl.net 

Tony Hirsch, WSRSH 

6229 Olentangy River Road, Worthington, OH 43085-3469 

Phone: 61 4-880-4465. email; thirsch@ameritech.net 

Larry McCalvy, WASJMO 

5400 Six Mile Road, Racine, Wl53402'9141 

Phone: 262-639-7 327, e-mail : wagjmo@wi. net 

William Pasternak, WASITF 

28197 Robin Avenue, Saugus, CA 91350-2066 

Phone: 661 -296-7 180, email: wa6itf@arnewsline.org 

Joan Powell, VE3ZC 

3112 Woodroffe Avenue, Ottawa, ON, K2i 4G3, Canada 

Phone: 613-825-4543, emait: ve3zc@rac.ca 

Ed Yoder, W3YMB 

9 Lakeridge Dr., Greensburg, PA 1 5601-9799 

Phon e : 1 24-850-4462, ema i I : edyode r@comcast, net 

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SUMMER 2OO9 

NOUF 

ln early March a message was posted on the QCWA Reflector that Chapter 41 in Dallas was going to demonstrate how VolP has 

I interacted with Ham Radio. I contacted Val, W5PUI and as part of the meeting, I was able to talk to the members and guests 

of Chapter 41 in Dallas Via Echolink from my 2 meter mobile in Minnesota while I was on the way to a Skywarn training class, 

(l'm currently certified until Dec, 2010). I hadn't talked to some of these members since the QCWA Convention in 2003. 

Since then l've made the time to check into these Echolink equipped nets: 

. Southern Californra C hapter 7 on Sundays at 1 000 Pacif ic W6ZRZ, NCS on 147 .360 + using Echolink K6VG P-R 8722 

. Golden Triangle Chapter 173 in FL on Tuesday at 2000 Eastern W9JRY NCS on 145.390 - Echolink K4FC-L 360259 

. Upper Midwest Chapter 8 in MN on Saturday at 0900 Central NUGI, NCS on 145.450 - Echolink NOBVE-R 89680 

Chapter 7 regularly has a Ham from Sri Lanka check in and Chapter 8 has had DX from South America and Europe join in. I 

installed Echolink on my computer last February but had never used it, Try it, you'll like it. 

l've also recently checked into the HF nets of Chapter 8 in MN, Chapter 110 in Omaha, NE. Chapter 123 in lowa and Chapter 

8's VHF net directly on 2 meters. 

Be sure to check elsewhere in the Journal and on the QCWA website for the latest information on the QCWA Cruise which is 

happening October 24 - 31 , 2009. This is on Holland America s brand new ship, the Eurodam. Fair Winds and Following Seas! 

The fallversion of the 53rd QCWA QSO Party is happening on September 19th. As always, details are in the Journal and on 

the QCWA web site. 

By the time this is published. the Dayton Hamvention will be history for another year. We had a superb opportunity to reach 

out and touch many Hams that are otherwise unavailable. l'll let you know in the next issue how we did. I can tell you, your 

Board worked hard to ensure success. 

An excerpt from an email to QCWA Director Joan Powell: 

The support of the Amateur Radio community in general is crucial. Much of that springs from whose who have a long history 

of experience, not only with the AR Service itself, but by their understanding and appreciation of the need for a strong organization 

to represent us all. 

t am, of course, referring to the Quarter Century Wireless Association, which plays such a vital role not only in preserving the 

past, but in making a brighter future. The literally hundreds of years of combined knowledge within that group is so very 

important to us all, a fact which l, for one, recognize and for which I am deeply grateful. 

Please convey these sentiments to your membership, as well as my thanks for their support of the RAC. 

73, 

Bob 

R.D. (Bob) Cooke, VE3BDB 

President and Chairman of the Board 

Radio Amateurs of Canada lnc. 

While l'm talking about correspondence, I had the pleasure of sending this to Nelson, W4BHD: 

Quafter Century Wireless Association 

(continued on next page)

The Quarter Century Wireless 

Association, lnc, was founded 

December 5, 1947, as a non-cornmercial 

association of radio amateurs 

organized for the prornotion 

of interest in Amateur Radio ccm' 

munication and experimentation. 

for the establishment and 

advancement of the radio art and 

of the public welfare. 

QCWA is an incorporated association 

without capital stock chartered 

under the laws of the State 

of New York, and is a tax exempt 

501(C)3 organization under the 

lnternal Revenue Code of 1986. 

Its affairs are governed by a 

President, Vice President. 

Secretary Treasurer and a Board of 

Directors. whose voting members 

are elected every 1wo years by the 

general membership. 

ln order to qualify for membership 

in QCWA one must have demonstrable 

proof of having been first 

licensed as an Amateur Radio 

operator at least 25 years prior to 

application for membership and 

must be currently licensed. 

Membership inquiries and general 

correspondence should be 

addressed to the business office at 

P.O. Box 3247, Framingham, MA 

01705-3247 U.S.A. 

VP: 508-405-1930 

FAX: 508-405-'1965 

EMAIL: qcwagm@rcn,com 

FrOm the PreSident (continued) 

Hello Nelson, 

It's a pleasure to extend my heartfelt congratulations to you on your achievement 

of qualifuing for our "WORKED 100 Members" Award. 

Your accomplishment embodies what all QCWA Members should strive for, 

to just Get on the Air! Our conventions are enjoyable, our scholarship program 

is a good way to give back, but more of us need to follow your example. 

Thanks for leading the way. 

l've chased enough wall paper to know the commitment this took and the 

pride and satisfaction you must feel in the completion of this task. 

Well done Nelson, well done! 

cu on down the log es 73, 

According to records at HQ, this is only the second Worked 100 Members 

Award ever given out. 

73 de NOUF op Bob Roske 

President QCWA 

QCWA President Bob Roske, N0UF (r), presenting Ed Yoder, WSYMB (l), with his 

Century Club Award during the Board meeting at Dayton. 

Boail members meeting during the 2UD Dayton Hamvention, (L-B) Pasternak, 

Erwin, McCalvy, Baldwin, Boske, Yoder, Supina, Harrison, Hirsch,oelke. 

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SUMMER 2OO9 

Chuck Walbridge, KIlGD 

. SEVENTY-FIVE YEAR AWARDS: lt was very gratifying this year to provide thirty-one 75-Year Awardsl When you read the complete bios provided 

(sorry I had to edit them down to meet our space requirements), you realize the broad spectrum of experience of these members. One element stands 

out - the number of them who started with a crystal setl That is expected when you realize when these members got therr start. Thanks to each of 

you for your many years of service to ham radio. 

. CHAPTER REPORT REQUIREMENTS: A reminder that the requirements for page count and number of photos per Chapter Report needs to be followed, 

We want to provide space for as many reports and other articles as possible within the pages we have available. Those numbers are posted on 

the bottom of the first page of the reports. lf you use Microsoft Works, please save the files as text or rtf. The native Works file format presents problems 

when converting them to a form usable for Journal layout. Thanks for your cooperation with these issues. 

. CHANGES TO BYLAWS: The QCWA Bylaws provide for changes by the Board of Directors with a two-thirds vote. Changes take effect 60 days after 

the membership notification. On January 2Bth, 2009 the QCWA Board of Directors passed a motion by a vote of 9 to 1 with 3 abstaining, to change 

these sections of our By-laws to read: 

ARTICLE III 

Section B: Upon termination of their term of office, Directors shall, within 30 days, return to the General Manager all property of the 

Association in their custody. 

Section 9: Robert's Rules of Order shall govern meetings of the Board of Directors and of the Association in all cases which are not 

covered by the QCWA Constitution and By-laws. 

ARTICLE IV 

Section 5: Upon termination of their term of office, Directors shall, within 30 days, return to the General Manager all property of the 

Association in their custody. 

ARTICLE V 

Section 3: Subscriptions to the QCWA Journal may be accepted by the General Manager from persons not qualified for membership, 

upon receipt of payment of the required fee(s). 

. ADDRESS CORRECTIONS/CHANGES: On the back of your membership card is a statement about keeping Headquarters informed of your current 

address. The Post Office sends notices to Headquarters when a copy of the Journal cannot be delivered for which we pay $0.50 each. lf you change 

your address, please let us know as soon as possible, since this action can facilitate a "savings" for QCWA There is a link on the web page that allows 

you to send to Headquarters your address change (and your call sign as well). 

. NEW MEMBER PRODUCTS: Starting this quarter, the QCWA belt buckles are going to be available from Headquarters. See the ad in this issue for 

order information. A new call sign display, CNC routed in wood, is available from HamPlaques. Your call and First-Year Licensed along with the QCWA 

logo make for a great display and gift. See the ad in this issue for ordering information. I am working with a vendor to provide some different types of 

laikets or shirts with call signs and logo. When the details are finalized, the information will be posted in an upcoming issue of the Journal. 

Jan and lwish to thank all who stopped by the booth in Dayton. Those visits are like reunionsl We hope you had a great time and are looking forward 

to a splendid summer. 

73 Chuck and Jan 

BREAKTNG NEWSI! A Memo Of tJnderstanding was signed at Dayton Hamvention by Bob Roske, N0IJE President of QCWA and Joel 

Uuri*n WiZU, president of ARRL. This replices an iarlier version that was signed back in 1984. This new document was the result of 

the effort of eCWA Director Val Erwin, WSPUT, and Coy Day, NSOK, the West Gulf Division Director. Harold Kramer, wllB, did the final 

coordination within ARRL. The Memo Of Understanding (MoU) updates and reaffirms the cooperative efforts between QCWA and ARRL 

in the support and continued expansion of the Amateur Radio Service. Thanks to you all! 

EitTplq,$EiF; yau may, hav.€ noti.ed,a ehanse,to,ftont tover: This was a.rnandatory alteratisn.weh,a to nrake- to follow 

ffiffi;ilGi1les puiin prace Lv ir,e us, p.rt offkg'lor non,plafit olga*izitio,ry. wqare ng.lhapPv apolt.thil "neY,.,r, :j 

Quarler Century Wireless Association

Williarn Banie, 

Roben Bes8sttqi 

Lyle Sro$rn, 

Jchn Gdrt0i 

GlEnn Sigg$; 

Bare 

Gordon 

SrviH€,gul$etq! 

Joseph tla$srnaBlu, 

E$gfire 

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William:Katil 

Jsssph [aMafin*ir! 

George [4c 

fiay 

Beuban 

Josfiua,Pre$:ao.,k; 

Chsst*r 

Franltr$tS*g;r 

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John sts{kwsl{, 

Jams$ 

L{uls 

QCWA 

75 YEar Award 

Herb Ash. KTARR 

I have been a ham since I was a sophomore 

in high school. I got interested in electronics 

in grammar school while visiting a ham in 

my home town of Glendale, a fellow named 

Ralph Masters who was a young man that 

operated a radio repair shop and hammed 

in his spare time. Later we moved to Tempe 

where I went to high school and to ASU (lt 

was Arizona State Teachers College in the 

30s ) 

I have met some wonderful hams and 

have become good friends with others One 

of my best friends was W7MME, Eddie 

Scales, who was a school teacher in Arizona 

along with his wife, Lucille. Eddie was a war 

hero who went through the ground fighting 

from landing on the beach to going into 

some of the concentration camps, 

I starled by building crystal sets, and got 

my two older brothers interested. We even- 

tually had our own ham station in Tempe 

while I was in high school and they were in 

college. Some of my high school buddies 

also became hams, including Dwayne 

Eskridge, who was written up in QST a few 

years ago as the FBI agent in Pearl Harbor 

who had to go home to let Washington know 

about the bombing of Pearl Harbor. While in 

high school, Dwayne and I each built 5 

meter superregenerative rigs and talked to 

each. We took them to a ham gathering 

where they had a treasure hunt. I guess we 

were too far off frequency, because we 

never could tune in the host station. Another 

young fellow we knew was copying press for 

a local radio station and made quite a name 

for himself in DX contests. He was later 

President of the ARRL. His name was Vic 

Clark We were at Boy Scout Camp with him 

one summer. 

My two brothers became hams after they 

saw how much fun I had building radios, 

They both received their tickets before I did, 

There calls were W6K|A, Howard Ashe; and 

CONGRATULATIONS! 

W6KWJ, LarryAshe. We kept in contact by 

ham radio before they were deceased, Larry 

aIageT2 and Howard at age 86. 

I was a Navy pilot during WW2. I instruct- 

ed for a couple of years and spent a couple 

of years in the South Pacific flying Black 

Cats. 

After the war, and after a not very profitable 

business experience, I went to work for the 

Air Force at l\4ather Air Force Base in 

Sacramento for 5 years where I joined 

MARS. I was mostly working with electronic 

trainers and radar repair. 

I went to work at Goodyear Aerospace in 

1956 as a junior electronic engineer and 

ended up as supervisor over radar design, I 

retired in 1983. 

After moving to Arizona I became active 

again in MARS and joined the QCWA, being 

President of Chapter 16 back in the sixties. 

It has been a great life, and I have enjoyed 

it. I have a family of 4 kids and a wife, Rose, 

of some 65 years, 10 grandchildren and 5 

great grandchildren. One of my grandsons, 

Bradly Duell, became a ham at the age of 

16 with the call letters W0CYD, He is mar- 

ried with one little girl I recently gave him a 

2 meter hand held and hope he has time to 

get active again one of these daysl 

John M. Carter. W3ELO 

John is proud to be the fifth great-grandson 

of Colonel George Ross of the American 

Revolutionary Army Ross, from 

Pennsylvania, was one of the signers of the 

Declaration of lndependence George Ross s 

nephew married Betsy Ross, who sewed the 

first American flag. A wooden table with a 

drop-leaf feature, once owned by George 

Ross, is now in John's home. 

John's birlhplace was Baltimore County 

Maryland, which later became palt of the 

City of Baltimore. 

He attended the Baltimore Polytechnic 

lnstitute where he enjoyed membership in 

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the school radio club and earned his amateur 

radio license W3EL0 in March, 1934. 

He still holds the same radio call sign today. 

The CW speed required at that time was 

only ten words per minute. 

John's teenage years were full of mis- 

chief. While playing with his CW key, it 

almost electrocuted him, and his father was 

furlous because the subsequent relay made 

too much noise in the middle of the night, 

His rig overwhelmed the electrical power at 

his parents' home, and the lights flashed as 

he happily carried on transmitting to a ham 

in Australia. He built a radio that enabled 

him to hear pioneer Pittsburgh Radio Station 

KDKA, one of the first radio stations in the 

country. At seventeen, John lied about his 

age and joined the Maryland National 

Guard. He worked diligently through the 

ranks and earned a 2nd Lt. commission in 

the Field Altillery, 

John was accepted to the University of 

Maryland in College Park, Maryland, a sub- 

urb of Washington, D.C. 

While attending classes, John learned to 

fly a Piper Cub single-engine, high-wing air- 

craft for his private pilot's license and a 

Fairchild for an advanced aerobatics course. 

ln January, I941 , John s National Guard 

unit was called up to active duty. However, 

he had only a few months to complete his 

degree, so he asked for a waiver from duty. 

He graduated in June, 1941 , earning his 

Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical 

Engineering from the University of Maryland. 

The Westinghouse Electric Company 

immediately hired him as a microwave tube 

division scientist and gave him the job of 

building magnetrons and klystrons. He also 

helped establish a new Westinghouse plant 

in Fairmont, West Virginia. 

ln May, 1942, John married Helen Day of 

Baltimore. The newlyweds moved to a new 

town across the river from Washington, 

D.C., known as Fairlington, Virginia. In July 

of 1942, John left Westinghouse and Joined 

the U.S. Navy. He received a commission as 

an Ensign and was assigned to the Navy 

Depaftment in Washington, DC. 0nce there, 

John joined the Aircraft Radar Design Group 

and became paft of a secret project group 

charged with developing a guided missile 

Quader Century Wi reless Association 

with television, which was unknown at that 

time. 

After six months of workrng on the secret 

project, John asked for a transfer to the 

South Pacific War Theater for overseas duty, 

He received the transfer-to Brisbane, 

Australia-to join the 7th Fleet, Service 

Force. About this time, Helen returned to 

Baltimore, where she gave birth to their first 

child in 1943. 

John was assigned to Milne Bay, New 

Guinea, as the Radio Material 0fficer. This 

was a large ship repair facility. He became 

the technical troubleshooter on the new, and 

in many cases, still secret radar equipment. 

As war moved further toward the 

Philippines, John earned promotion to Lt 

Junior grade. He became the Staff Radar 

Officer Commander Aircraft 7th Fleet, which 

had no aircraft caniers. 

When General MacAfthur landed in the 

Philippines, John was on board a seaplane 

tender that took parl at Leyte and Lingayan 

Gulf operations and eventually Manila Bay in 

the Philippines. John learned about the 

Navy's plans to train 50,000 men as pilots 

for the invasion of Japan. He applied for and 

was granted yet another change in duty to 

Dallas and Corpus Christi, Texas, for training 

on the Stearman and the AT6 aircraft. John 

was just graduating from naval flight training 

when the war ended in 1945. 

John returned to Westinghouse in 

Baltimore at their special Air Arm Division. 

He became the Manager-Fighter Radar 

Engineering, where for six years he was 

responsible for the design, development, 

and production engineering of a series of 

successful high-power, fire-control, radar 

systems. For several years, John was also 

the industry member of the Department of 

Defense, Research, and Development Board, 

Airborne Radar and Guidance Equipment 

Subpanel. 

Some of the electronic systems John 

developed are still used today and consid- 

ered state-of{he-art. ln 1 948, John earned 

the Master of Science degree in Electrical 

Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. 

ln 1952, John left Westinghouse and 

became the President and General Manager 

of California Technical lndustries, which had 

been formerly known as Color Television, 

lnc. He pioneered CTI in automatic electron- 

ic test equipment, three-axis flight simula- 

tors, and microwave boresighting equip- 

ment. CTI eventually became a division of 

Textron, lnc., with John President of the divi- 

sion. 

ln 1961 , John formed Carco Electronics in 

Menio Park, California, a few miles from his 

home in Athefton. The new company would 

design and build flight motion simulators for 

the development of guidance and control of 

weapons. John donated 1 4 United States 

patents to Carco, which flourished as cus- 

tomers from all over the world, including 

England, France, Germany, Japan, South 

Korea, Spain, Australia, Sweden, and 

Taiwan, purchased John's products. The 

U.S, Government was a big customer, with 

large facilities using his products in China 

Lake and Point Magu for the Navy; in 

Huntsville, Alabama, for the Army; and at 

Eglin Air Force Base in Florida for the Air 

Force. 

John served as the President of Carco 

almost into his B0s, when the Board of 

Directors suggested he was getting old and 

they had a potential CEO who would expand 

the company tenfold. John agreed, and they 

bought back his stock in the company. 

Today, John remains an active padicipant in 

the Menio Park division of ldeal Aerosmith, 

where he started as Manager of the 

Hydraulic Simulators Division, The 

November, 2005, Cessna Pilots Association 

newsletter reports that John received The 

Wright Brothers "Master Pilot" award by the 

FAA. lt was given in recognition for his 65 

years as a pilot and in appreciation for his 

service, technical expertise, professionalism, 

and outstanding contributions that have fur- 

thered the cause of aviation safety. 

I had the oppodunity to visit John's radio 

shack and to view his original logbook that 

clearly shows his first QSO of March 6, 

1934. He currently uses an lcom 2at hand- 

held VHF radio when traveling around the 

area. John has ten grandchildren, two greatgrandchildren, 

and a very supportive and 

understanding wife, who is the love of his 

life. 

John Carter, W3EL0, is an active member

Bill Katz, WqPPH (L) receiving his award! 

of the QCWA Chapter in northern California. 

Bill Katz. WgPPH 

I grew up in Wilmette, lllinois, in the years 

prior to the great stock market crash in 

1928. When I was I0 or 11, I put together a 

receiver from a galena crystal, a cats' 

whisker, and a telephone earpiece "bor- 

rowed" from the phone company. One 

evening I picked up KDKA in Pittsburgh. ln 

great excitement I called my Dad in. He lis- 

tened, and said, tapping his forehead, "l 

believe it up here" but, tapping his chest 

over his heart, "l don t believe it down 

herel" 

I learned Morse code around 1929 or 

1930 as part of the requirements for a Boy 

Scout merit badge. The bedroom of a next 

door neighbor's son, also in the same scout 

troop, faced mine. So we ran bell wire 

across, hooked up a battery, a buzzer and a 

crude key, and learned the alphabet suffi- 

ciently to get those badges. 

ln 1930 I entered New Trier High School 

in Winnetka, and lo and behold they had a 

ham radio club which I eventually joined. My 

Elmer was a year ahead of me, Jim Ricks, 

then W9DHH, who became a good friend, 

and a frequent Ping Pong opponent. Jim, 

now a Silent Key, obtained the call K9T0 

and is known as the developer of the T0 

Keyer, one of the first automatic keys. Under 

his encouragement and tutelage, I passed 

the code and theory exam and was licensed 

as W9PPH in 1933. My first rig was "bread 

board" with a crystal con- 

trolled Haftley oscillator and a 

pair of 210s in push-pull run- 

ning 600 volts to the plates. 

This fed a Zepp antenna 

stretched between two trees 

in our back yard. The ladder 

line feeding the antenna wenl 

through holes in the window. 

My first receiver was a 

National SW-3; I sure wish I 

had that in my possession 

n0w. 

No VFO is those days. 

You got a crystal, put out a 

call on some set frequency, 

and tuned around the band looking for a 

response from some other crystal controlled 

frequency. 

My CW contacts were mostly on 40 meters, 

with an output power of around 50 watts. 

My first contact (l still have my logbook) 

shows a response to my CQ from W9MVU in 

nearby Evanston on January 6, 1 934. Next 

day I worked W2CBT in New Jersey. The 

ensuing days I worked many US stations, 

and called many DX stations with no reply. 

Finally, on February 20, I called and worked 

VE3WD in Hamilton, Ontario, - my first out 

of US contactl 0n March B I called and 

worked CMl PW in Guanajay, Cuba. 

I built an AM phone transmitter - a single 

58 using suppressor grid modulation. My 

first phone "DX" was on 160 meters to 

W9GES in the neighboring town of 

Kenilworth! 

0f course, all ham activity stopped during 

the war. After the war, we returned home in 

1947 and purchased a new home in 

Highland Park. I met Mike Bexter, W9FKC, 

who became a friend and sort of second 

Elmer. I retook the amateur exam and was 

able to get my old call back, which l've had 

ever since, 

ln .1990 we sold the house - the kids 

were grown and gone and moved into a 

condo. That has confined me entirely to 

mobiling still with a YAESU transceiver and a 

4-foot bumper mounted antenna. An lCOM 

2-6 meter transceiver and an lC0M hand- 

held round out the equipment set, 

Some time ago I called up the local Notlh 

Shore Radio Club 2-meter repeater from my 

car, entered the node for Las Vegas, and 

after checking for anyone using it, put out a 

call. "This is W9PPH near Chicago - anyone 

listening?' Back came a reply from the 

North Slope in Alaska. Here I am sitting in 

my car, with 5 watts output, an 1B-inch 

antenna, talking to the North Slope. WOW! I 

know how it works but, "l believe it up here. 

but I don't believe it down herel" 

Joe LaManna, W6HPE 

I was born in New York City but the family 

moved to NJ when I was a baby. My interest 

in radio started when reading a NY paper 

which had a radio page - n0, n0 programs, 

but schematics and information on building 

crystal sets. That added to my interest when 

I built an oatmeal box coil, slider and galena 

crystal detector. The magazine, "Short Wave 

Craft" led to a 1-tube SW receiver and a 

stray copy of a 1920 QST led to ham radio.l 

struggled with code for years and finally got 

enough nerve to take and pass the test. I 

was ticketed as W2HPE by the FCC - one of 

the first calls by the FCC, which had been 

FRC until 1934. 

All of my ham gear, pre-war ll, was home 

brew. Discarded battery radios were a good 

source of pafts as AC radios were coming 

on the market. My early activity was mainly 

B0 meter CW with 5 meter and 2112 meler 

fone. 

I joined the US Naval Communications 

Service in I937 as a Radioman, I served on 

summer training cruises and was called to 

active duty in 1940. My service was as a 

radio operator on an aviation patrol 

squadron and radio maintenance technician. 

After attending Naval Air Technical Training 

School, I transferred to a Naval Air Transport 

Squadron, all stateside. 

After movrng to California in 1955, I went 

to work for Douglas Aircraft. Co., first, as a 

technician, then as an electrical engineer on 

aircraft and missiles. 

This move required that my license be 

reissued as W6HPE. I maintained contact 

with one of my friends back in Ridgefield 

Park, NJ, on .15 and 20 meters CW. Other 

friends joined us through the years - from 

Washington, Florida, Guatemala and 

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James Bobinson, WADDD. 

Grenada. One by one they became Silent 

Keys, the last being Ralph Hasslinger, 

W2CVF. Another from that time was Frank 

Lester, W4AMJ, also one of our group on 15 

and 20 meters SSB. Only two of the group 

are left; Doug Campbell, W2ND, and myself. 

James W. Robinson. W4DDD 

James W Robinson was born in 1921 and 

licensed Class C in 1933, Lived in small 

town of St. Marys, GA. My father was 

W4CWG and helped my brother and I learn 

from those 1930s license manuals. Frrst 

testing was done at home with a witness. 

Class B testing was done in Jacksonville, FL 

with a visiting FCC inspector, To take the 

Class A exam we had to fly to Atlanta, GA 

for testing. We had a Gross transmitter kit 

for phone and CW which we wired at home. 

Had 50 watts and a long wire antenna, Also 

a one tube 47 xtal osc with about 3 watts 

which was fun to work with. RX was a 

Hammarlund, 

Before WW2 I worked as a Signal Corps 

civilian radio operator at Ft. Mac in Atlanta. I 

enlisted in the Army Air Corps in June I942; 

served two years as a radio mechanic and 

then attended school for B months to be 

commissioned as a Communications Officer 

where I was assigned to AACS for the rest 

of my enlistment. I was discharged in 

September I945 after spending 9 months in 

Greenland and then lceland working in the 

AACS radio stations. 

ln August 1948 I was back in the USAF 

and sent to Japan assigned to a communi- 

Quarter Century Wireless Assoclatlon 

cations Squadron at Tachikawa 

AFB until November 1951 when I 

returned to the USA and was 

assigned back into AACS at 

MacDill AFB in Tampa, FL and 

then assigned to Patrick AFB, 

Cocoa Beach, FL for the remain- 

ing time in service. I was dis- 

charged in March 1953 and 

enlisted in the Florida Air 

National Guard as their 

Communications officer where I 

remained until September 1964 

when I retired USAFR with the 

rank of Major. 

I maintained my ham license W4DDD until 

1956 when I let it lapse. I was back into 

hamming in March of 1991 as N5URE and 

received my Extra Class license in 

November of '1991 . I managed to receive 

my first call W4DDD as a vanity call in 

1 996. 

I work 100% CW mostly on bands 40, 30, 

20. I keep records of my qsos using 

Buckmaster Ham Call and their logging program 

plus still maintain a 3 x 5 card file of 

all contacts since 1991 , 

I still send code using a MFJ 4228 elec- 

tronic keyer using manual dashes and auto 

dots; never could master the automatic 

dashes as I used a vibroplex keyer for years. 

I have a Keyboard in case I find it difficult to 

send code using my keyer. I am currently 

age 87 and think the code keeps me going. 

I am on 40 meters most mornings between 

7:30am and 9:00am. 

Receiving a 75-Year QCWA plaque is 

something I am really proud of and sent a 

picture of it to a number of hams I know 

plus a lot of other family and friends. 

Robert Wessel. Jr.. K4PR 

I was born in Kansas City. M0, where my 

parents (from Germany) settled. My early 

memory of radio was a crystal set used to 

listen to AM programs from WDAF. My calls, 

over the years, have included: W9SNZ, 

W0SNZ, WZZBP, and now, for many years, 

K4PR. 

My younger brother, Kenneth, and I were 

both involved with communications during 

WWll. I was in the Signal Corps in Europe as 

a Tech Sgt. We had the mission to provide 

communications for General Eisenhower to 

his foruvard generals through a network of 

numerous Motorola radio systems. They 

never failed or broke down. Kenneth was 

later sent to Japan where he sent communi- 

cations back and forth to the USA using a 

high-powered transmitter our forces had set 

up. 

Some highlights from my WWll experi- 

ences include: being in Gibraltar Straits, 

which opened into the Mediterranean Sea; 

going to Sicily and being treated with qui- 

nine for a case of malaria fever in a very 

orderly British hospital; knocking down an 

Italian man with my jeep, then going to his 

hospital the next day to see about his safety 

and condition. 0ur Signal team stayed in a 

big castle and I remember how happy I was 

on a Sunday hearing a baseball game sent 

our way from the USA! We stayed overseas 

nearly four years. When I came back to the 

US, I met my wife, May Ruth, in Knoxville, 

TN. 

Music is a natural talent and interest for 

me. I also was a teacher in the Metro 

Nashville Schools for grades 5 and 6. For 

years, I opened the school year playing 

"School Days" 0n the school organ. I've also 

played piano and organ for various local 

activities and nineteen local churches. My 

time is spent writing waltzes and marches. 

My ham station is in the basement along 

with my keyboard and computer. 

Congratulations to all of the Award 

winners! Please see the individual 

Chapter Reports for photos and information 

on other winners!

RULE VIOUTION? 

Q; Upon asking for driving directions, I was instuct' 

ed, "Gst off this frequency, This is a closed 

repeater!" That admonishment sounded contrary to 

Section 97.10I(b). lt says that na frequency will be 

assigned for the exclusive use of any amateur ttation. 

Was that a rule violation? 

A. No. Section 97.205(e) says that limiting the use of a 

repeater to only certain user stations is permissible. While 

the more polished implementation is some sort of prearranged 

access scheme, the station licensee, apparently, 

was relying upon the station control operator ("SCO") or 

acceptable users to shoo away unwelcome would-be 

u5e rs. 

Q. The license trustee of a military rereation statiofl 

claim* that Sections 97.5(bX3) and 97.5{c} allaw him 

to be the operator of the station. (an that be correct? 

A. No. A military recreation station license grant carries 

no SCO privileges. Section 97.7 says that such prrvileges 

come only with an operator/primary station license grant 

or authorization for alien reciprocal operation. 

Section 97.5(b)(3) says that a military recreation station 

license grant may be held only by the person who is 

the license custodian designated by the official in charge 

of the U.S. military recreational premises where the station 

is situated. The person must not be a representative 

of a foreign government. The person need not hold an 

amateur operator license grant. 

Section 97.5(c) says that the person named in the station 

license grant may use, in accordance with the applicable 

rules of Part 97, the transmitting apparatus under 

the physical control of the person at places where the 

amateur service is regulated by the FCC. The trustee, 

therefore. would also have to have the 5CO authorization 

stipulated by Section 91.7 in order to be the legitimate 

SCO of any amateur station. 

Q. I noticed that there didn't seem to be 

pastlcamp/station where the mailing addresg was, 

so I wonder if there was a fraudulent filing? 

A. That may be determinable. Section 97.17(b)(2)requires 

one of the Club Station Call Sign Administrators to retain 

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the applicants information for at least 15 months and 

make it available to the FCC upon request. 

Q. Whether lrou are portable or'rnobile is now trivia, 

not a rule issue, A eommercial manual I had in the 

late 50's said the test was whether you rould get 

underway without ceasing operation. iemember 

that in the old days when we operated mobile we 

had to file with the local FCC engineer in charge 

that we were operating mobile and also had to lD 

with our location? 

A. Sure do. 

Q. How can I add my support for the QCWA:praposal 

regarding indicators for hams who served this 

country's military? 

A. Our petition for rulemaking was denied along with 

two others that would have changed the way amateur 

stations transmit the identif ication announcement 

"...because the petitioners seek to amend the rules to 

permit activity that the rules already permit, or do not 

present sufficient evidence to justify altering the current 

rules...." 

Our petition had asked that specific indicator letters 

be reserved exclusively for use by the amateur stations of 

current or honorably discharged members of our armed 

forces on those few patriotic observance days, such as 

Veterans Day, Memorial Day and lndependence Day. 

Q. Whether active duty, discharged, retired, or 

retgrve * fi v€teran is sorneone who, at one point in 

hislher life, wrote a hlank theck made payable to 

"The United States of Arnerica," for an amount of 

"up to, and including his life.f'That is honor and 

there are way too many people in this country 

tcday who ns longer understand that fact. 

A. Thank you. 

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Q. lbur comrnent regarding incentive lieensing was 

so very, very right. Perhaps an incentive to grant 

spectrum-based privileges to new licEnsees may have 

merit, but to have taken away frcquencies from 

those who had previously earned them, is another 

thing altogethen I struggle to understand how an 

Extra Class - with no telegraphy skills - is entitled to 

work telegraphy in the lower 25 KHz of the CW 

bands. and yet one who previously earned those 

privileges at 13 wpm, and can handle close to 30 

wpm is not. 

A. Thank you. 

Q, We have members ofi our net who are very (oncerned 

about the Net Control using our cluh station 

call *ign without appending l4 to the call sign. Can 

the Trustee allow different Net Control Stations to use 

the call sign *naked?" 

A. That is the trustee's choice, unless the operator license 

class held by the SCO exceeds that of the station licensee, 

(see Section 91 .119(e)); or unless the SCO is a recent 

upgrade with a CSCE (see Section 97 .119(f)); or unless the 

station is transmitting under the reciprocal operating 

authority (see Section 97.1 19(g)). 

Section 97 .119(c) says that one or more indicators may 

be included with the call sign. Each indicator must be separated 

from the call sign by the slant mark (/) or by any suitable 

word that denotes the slant mark. lf an indicator is 

self-assigned (as in your scenario), it must be included 

before, after, or both before and after, the call sign. No selfassigned 

indicator may conflict with any other indicator 

specified by the FCC Rules or with any prefix assigned to 

another country. 

Q. As the truste€ for our club station, can I use rthat 

call sign at my office and in myr car? 

A. That decision is the trustee's (that's you). "Use that call 

sign" is hamslanguage for taking responsibility for the station 

transmitting properly on amateur service spectrum. See 

Section 97.5(a). 

Q. When linking two local rep€aters (with different 

call signs) to better facilitate emergency communiea' 

tions, is it permi:sible for each repeater to repeat the 

lD from the other? 

A. Yes, as long as each station achieves compliance with the 

station identification requirement in Sectron 97.119(a) by 

transmrtting its assigned call sign as necessary. 

ln order to transmit legitimately but one of the call signs 

in both station l.D. announcements, one of the two station 

licensees would have to transfer physical control of the station 

apparatus to the other, per Section 97.5(a). The recipient 

would have to accept accountability for the proper 

operation of both repeaters. 

Quarter Century Wireless Assoclatlon 

Q. I am the trustee for a local club repeater. I was 

asked by a local rouple if they are permitted to speak 

in their native Portuguee on the repeaten My understanding 

is that it is allowed so long as they lD every 

10 minutes in English, I was then informed that this is 

corre(t if communicating sirnplex, but not if communicating 

via repeater. My main concern is that neither I 

nor any of our eontrol operators speak Portuguese 

and therefore cannot maintain control, Right? 

A. Right you are. The SCO of the repeater would have to 

have some way of determining that any communications 

being transmitted - in a language that he or she does not 

understand - is compliant with the transmissions authorized 

in Section 97.111 and that they do not run afoul of the 

transmissions prohibited by Section 97.113. As for the station 

identification announcement, Section 97.1 19(bX2) says 

that for any FCC-licensed amateur station being identified 

by a phone emission, it must be in the English language. 

Q. As I understand,it, the 200 watt limitation on 30 

meters is dependent upon the dass of operator lice*se 

of the station control opcrator. Thsse handy charts 

showing bands, emission typesr etc., however, don't 

make any such distinrtion. llUhat's the real scoop oil 

this? 

A. Section 97 .313 codifies our transmitter power standards. 

Some of the paragraphs in that section are based upon the 

class of license granted to the SCO, but not those pertaining 

to the 30 meter band. Paragraph 97.3'13(c)(1)is the 

operative requirement. lt says: No station may transmit with 

a transmitter power exceeding 200 W PEP on the 10.'10- 

10.1 5 MHz segment. 

Q. When I aperate from my house in Florida {my permanent 

address is in PA). I usa my third district call 

sign. We are there no rnore than 4 months at a time. I 

have not notified the FCC that nry address is temporal- 

Iy in Florida and have used rny call sign without any /4 

or /W4 on the end. Should I notifu the FCC of my temporary 

address changes even of short duration? 

A. Not as long as you can receive mail promptly from the 

FCC. Section 97.23 says that each license grant must show 

the grantee's correct name and mailing address. The mailing 

address must be in an area where the amateur service is 

regulated by the FCC and where the grantee can receive 

mail delivery by the United States Postal Service. 

Q, Do I sign my call as l4 or 1W4? 

A. Section 91.119(c) authorizes you to append any selfassigned 

indicator as long as it does not conflict with any 

other indicator specified by the FCC Rules or with any prefix 

assigned to another country.

APPRECIATION 

It was a great pleasure to meet up again with Director 

Larry McCalvy (left, photo) and Past-President Croft Taylor 

at the February meeting of our Citrus Chapter No. 45 in 

Orlando. 

Director Larry McCalvy (left) and Past-President Crolt Taylon 

Read the rules - Heed the rules at www.gpoaccess.gov/ecfr/ 

and clrck on [Title 47], then on lPart 97]. Also visit 

http ://wi reless.f cc. gov/ a nd cl ick on [a mateu r] " 

Enforcement reports are at 

http://www.fcc. gov/eb/Amateu rActions/welcome. html. 

Report violations to fccham@fcc.gov. 

BE lnformed! Have a question about the amateur service 

ru les? Visit http ://w3 be. home.att. neV; and e-ma i I 

john@johnston.net. 

The Rules Say... appears monthly in WorldRadio Online at 

http ://www.co-a mateu r-radio. com. 

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HamCation 2009 in, OrlEndo last February,offered the opportunity for a short 

relmlon,fsr,the \t/61t, Maxwel!. WZDU, family; a last rninute pre-publication 

me+ting .with ttre staff. of CQ eomrnunication lnc, -- the publisher of Walt s 

thi,rd.ed.ition of;' "&eflections{rammission Lines and Antennas"; and allowed 

tne grollp to enjoy,all thertantatrizing things that that great three-day Harn Fest 

offered its attendees, 

William "Bilf Maxwell, tdr8ytrH in 1957' Eilf was the 

authorls {ather and patriarch af the fhree-generail:on 

Maxwetl farnily of Flarns. l{&fcilng1 his dad building radio 

receivers beginning in 1922, inspired Walt to enrer tfie sctentifk 

field. Bill was lcensed as an amatew radro operaror 

in 1944, and uras aetire as a.Ham unill s:har{ly betore 

&ecornin$ asl/ent key in Secernber 195& Sill also raughf 

Morne,ebde classes furir*ndredsof f$aual Caders during 

WW-II, 

Quar-ler CenturY \&Itreless Association 

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\Nak his ahree sorx, daughter and son-ln-/aw garhered ln 

frant of the CO 6o*rh at the 20Og Or/ando HarnCatia* far a 

farnily pottfiit.leff ro r:ghl rn the back row is Pick Maxure/{ 

WSKHK flris SadS ariginal call in 1933), ex-l#8GfiN & 

WBZHKH; a OCWA Life Member; John Maxwet'l, K4JftM, ex- 

K\4{VQ; and BillMaxwell, \N2WM, ex-WAZETt 544ry & 

AGZB, QAWA Life lvlember; Flont row sue (Maxl,1/el$ . 

Glasnapp,.ex.W7g$C & KC4UBZ; Wa[t Maxwell, W2DU, e* 

W8(HK w4GwZ, WsVJft & !#lF{Y"Q{14r4 life Mernber' 

and licensed fart76-years; and Son-i*-law Keifft Glbsnapp;. 

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Please send the rcports tu: Chuc? Walbridge, General Manager, to arrive N0 UTER than il,e latlawifia da#E::&wafv..:I.fql!W 

summer. Julv 1 foi Falt amt lctoher 1 for winter Reports received later than the dea'tline may wI be wblished in w"lfrtii#t' 

Chapter Report submittal requirements! 

Mointoining strong QCWA Chopters requires 

thot recruiting efforts must be o regulor octivity. 

Our future depends upon it. While Chopter One 

odded to its roster during the 2009 recruifing drive, 

members ore encouroged to continue extending worm 

welcoming invitotions to others who hove yet to ioin 

ACWA. 

How hove new members been recruited? The Chopter 

promotes membership with o toble ot the Clevelond 

Homfest, including o disploy, literoture ond personol contocts 

with Officers. Members contoct friends ond fellow 

homs, often moiling fliers with "reosons to ioin Chopter 

One," olong with on opplicotion, invitotion letter ond reply 

envelope. We encouroge members to invite their friends 

(condidotes) to ioin us for quorterly luncheons. The bottom 

line: there's nothing like personol contocts to stort the 

recruiting process rolling. 

Chopter One continues os o sPonsor of the Hom Rodio 

Promotion Proiect, which is o cooperotive ellort by 22 

rodio clubs to build the omoteur rodio service through promotion 

ond recruitment. A website is mointoined 

(www.neohom.org) ond o promotion ond recruitment column 

is now provided bi-monthly to WorldRodio Online, 

ovoiloble free on the CQ Mogozine website. 

We're soddened to report thot Chopter One member 

Clyde Rothstein, W8QHM, is now o Silent Key. 

D.E. "Dee" logon, W\HEO, Editor 

Chqpter 6, Pittsbursh (EA 

Pittsburgh's Chopter 6 held its spring 2009 meeting ot 

Rocky's ll in McKees Rocks on Morch 14th. We were hoping 

to heor some eorly rodio stories from Bill Guthrie, 

W3LDB, who recently completed 75 yeors of omoteur serv- 

ice. Unfortunotely, Bill hod to follow up on some medicol 

treotment following his stroke ot the end of 2008 ond wos 

unoble to otiend. Note Firestone, W3SVJ, offered to 

deliver Bill's 75-Yeor Certificote ond ploque to him personolly 

olong with the wishes of Chopter 6. 

Following some Chopter business, q short iolk wos 

given on recognizing the symptoms of stroke. Sirokes hove 

plogued o number of our members over the yeors, ond it 

wos emphosized thot eorly recognition ond medicol ottention 

were vitolly importont to lessening the effects of stroke. 

Chopter 6 would like to welcome Bill Somek, 

WB3BUW, ond Jim Greiner, WA3ZRN, to the ronks. 

Both men fit right in with the Chopter 6 requirements of 

breoking breod ond story telling. Here's to you, gents! 

Chopter 6 meets on o quorterly bosis, ond interested 

omoteurs con get detoils by contocting Brion Roberts, 

KSVKY directly, or by checking into the Sundoy morning 

net. Thot net meets ot 0830 prevoiling time on 147.O3+ 

ond is hosted by Bruce Murroy, N3GHl. All ore welcome. 

Brion Roberts, K|VKY Choper Scribe 

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With below normol temperotures for most of the month, 

only 'l 'l members ond guesis ventured out for our Jonuory 

meeting ot the Ft Snelling Club. During the business meeting, 

o motion wos opproved to follow the Notionol 

ACWA ond confer o Life Membership on our members 

thot receive the 75-Yeor Golden Certificote. Our first 

Chopter 8 Life Members ore: Ben Miller, WUDKL, ACWA 

#1572, firsi licensed in I 930. Jim Stodolko , WAIIY, 

aCWA #5806, first licensed in ,l934. Josh Premock, 

WAKZD, ACWA # 12124, first licensed in ,l934. 

An excellent presentotion on Shock Sofety wos presented 

by Dick Philstrom, WAILE. 

ln Morch, the temperoture ond ottendonce both 

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increosed with 20 members ond guests present. 

The Chopter 8 Boord put o procedure in ploce to 

inform members they were delinquent with their notionol 

aCWA dues ond they will not be ollowed to renew their 

Chopter membership until they ore current. 

Chopter 8 Director John Fox, WULER, is in chorge of 

our toble ot the Mid-Winter Homfest in Buffolo, MN, in 

Morch. 

Jock Steinmetz, N@GI, our 2 meter NCS, reported he 

hod I 3 check-ins this morning including o VE3 vio 

Echolink. lf the number of check-ins continues to climb he 

moy run the net through the summer. This net currently is 

on the oir from September through Moy. 

ARRL Dokoto Division Director, Joy Bellows, KUQB, 

brought us oll up to dote on the lotest hoppenings ot the 

leogue. These include efforts to recruit younger members 

into the ronks of Hom Rodio (ond hopefully into QCWA in 

25 yeors). 

Our nets meet Soturdoy morning on 3.908 MHz ot 

0800 centrol time, Boldy, WAOFY, is the NCS. Then oi 

0900 centrol timeJock, NUGI, is the NCS on 145.45O 

MHz. This repeoter is connected to Echolink (N@BVE-R 

89680) with no PL tone, pleose ioin us. 

Check the Chopter 8 webpoge for informotion ond pic- 

tures : http://www. qcwo.org/cho pterOOB. htm 

Speciol Note: ln Februory, I wos working on ARRL VE 

session in St Cloud ond one of the tests I corrected 

belonged to Ben Premock, KDOEIO. Ben wos licensed lost 

August, iust upgroded io Generol ond is the Grqndson of 

new Life member, Josh Premock, W@KZD of Tucson. Ben 

occepted my invitotion to our Morch meeting ond shored 

pictures ond stories of Grondpo Josh with our members. 

Ben is visiting Josh in the neor future ond promises to keep 

in iouch. 

Boh Roske, NOUF, Secretory 

Chqpter I O, Michigqn (Ml) 

Finolly, summer hos, (hopefully), orrivedl Time for those 

new ontenno prolects, lown mowing, plonting gordens, 

ond deoling with o brond new crop of mosquitoes, oooh 

yes, those hozy, lozy, crozy doys of summer! 

Pleose ioin us in welcoming to QCWA ond Chopter 

10, our newest member, Clements, (Clem), N. Duvol, 

WBVO, from Sterling Heights, Ml. 

We extend our sincere congrotulotions to the following 

ACWA oword recipients from Chopter 10, os we ore oll 

very proud of their individuol occomplishments ond contributions 

to omoteur rodio. The Awords ond Recipients ore 

os follows: Both the ACIVA "Fifiy Yeors Continuously 

Licensed Aword", ond the ACWA "50th Anniversory 

Aword" ore being presented to: Lorry G. Trumble, KSOER 

f;HfifT,fiB 16 l:r:ts 

of Eost Jordon, Ml; Timothy R. Pepper, KBNWD, of 

Woterford, MI, ond Clements N. Duvol, W8VO, of 

Sterling Heights, Ml. 

The Chopter I0 Annuol Summer Picnic will be held on 

Wednesdoy, August 12, 2009, ot the Kenwood pork in 

Codilloc, Ml, beginning ot 12:00 noon. Thonks to our 

"Moster Chef", Jonesy, KBDJE, BBQ boby bock ribs, chicken, 

ond "olher goodies" will be provided to oll. Members 

ond guests ore osked to bring their own toble service ond 

drinks, (no olcoholic beveroges ollowed per City ordinonces), 

ond o possing dish to shore with others. 

Following the picnic luncheon, there will be o presentotion 

by one of our Chopter members. lt would be o good 

ideo to bring olong your fovorite folding choir, kick bock, 

ond enioy the greot fellowship ond fun. Detoils of this 

event will be posted on the Chopter l0 web poge on the 

OCWA Notionol Web Site, ond be onnounced on our 

Sundoy ssb net. 

Recruiting new members for QCWA is very importont 

ond we encouroge everyone to set o gool of recruiting ot 

leost one new member this yeor. See detoils ond opplicotion 

forms in this Journol or contoct your Chopter 

Secretory for opplicotion detoils. 

Everyone is invited to ioin us on our ssb net ond cw 

net eoch week. (See "Chopters On The Air" listing this 

issue, for doys, frequency, ond times.) 

We wish everyone o sofe ond funJilled summer. As we 

celebrote the birth of our Notion on July 4th, ond Lobor 

Doy, in September, let us not forget those thot now serve 

ond hove served ond given so much for our freedoms in 

this greot Notion. 

lowell Corbin, W8l8B, Vice President & Acting Seaetory lreasurer 

Chqpter I l, Northern Cqliforniq (CAl 

This spring brought o flurry of octivity to Chopter I 1. 

Members were looking forwqrd to our onnuol spring 

Iuncheon thot we hold ot o yocht club where we cqn invite 

fomily ond friends. We received o club stotion license but 

ore woiting until we con chonge it before we stqrt operoting 

with it. Members ore discussing the upcoming QCWA 

Convention. Severol hove olreody mode their deposits. 

Most notobly, the members thot comprise the VE teom. The 

Su n nyvo le VE Coord i no tor, http: / / www.o moteu rrodio.org/ 

is o member of our Chopter ond together with 

the VEs in our Chopter, will be providing on exom session 

on the Convention Cruise for oll elements of the exoms. So 

qnyone thot wonts to upgrode or get their first license, this 

will be on excellent opportunity with o plethoro of Elmers 

on boord. 

Chopter Vice President Peter Von Putten, WA6UDU, 

presented Brod Wyott, K6WR, with o Meritorious Aword 

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KEWB receives a Meritorious Award from WA6UDU. 

WSELO receives 7s-Year Continuous Licensing Plaque lrom AA6T. 

Certificoie for his service to Amoteur Rodio ond Chopter 

I t. 

Brqd wqs first licensed os W6VUW os o teenoger in 

,l946. Twenty five yeors loter with on Amoteur Extro Closs 

license obtoined collsign K6WR. Brod worked for IBM in 

soles ond morketing from .l955 - ,l984. During his time 

in Europe, 1974-1977, Brod wos on the oir octively os 

PASWRR ond other Europeon colls. 

ln 1992, he wos elected os ARRL Pocific Division Vice 

Director, ond in ,l994 wos elected os the ARRL Pocific 

Division Director ond served until he retired from thot 

octivity in 2000. 

ln 2004, when Jim Willioms, K6H|O, who wos the 

President ond Secretory Treosurer of Chopter I I become 

o Sileni Key, Brod wos qble to collectJim's records for the 

Chopter. Brod stepped in, prepored the Chopter 1 1 

Annuol Report for thot yeor, ond corried on os 

Secretory/Treosurer for the Chopter 'l l. Brod is currently 

octive with lnternet Remote Control Amoteur Rodio stotions 

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worldwide qnd in Chopter I I qctivities. 

Chopter Secreiory, Terry Finn, 446l presented John 

Corter, W3ELO, his Z5-Yeor Continuous Licensing Ploque. 

John recently celebroted his 90th birthdoy. When John 

wos only 15 yeors old, he recolls being o member of the 

school rodio club ond eorning his omoteur rqdio license 

W3ELO in Morch ,l934. He still holds the some rodio coll 

sign iodoy. The CW speed required ot thot time wos only 

10 wpm. 

John hos hod o long qnd voried cqreer. Corco 

Elecironics wos formed by lohn obout l96l . This new 

compony wos to design, build ond provide spore ports for 

the development of flight motion simulotors for guidonce 

ond control of weopons. 

Todoy, John is still on octive porticipont in ldeol 

Aerosmith ond John is still very much involved with 

Acutronic, o Switzerlond-bosed comPqny thot provides 

mony of the services ond speciolized equipment thot 

John's Corco Electronics did for yeors. 

Al Montoyt, WBhIMX 

Chopter 12, Andy Clork (FLl 

Chopter '12 is now holding its monthly meetings ot o new 

locotion. 

Piccodilly Clossic Americon Cooking, B30l West 

Floger Street, Miomi, Florido. Our Chopter this yeor will 

be celebroting its 44th yeor. Our current membership is 

2l members. The following Officers were elecied ot our 

onnuql December meeting. Horry Pilofion, W4SQG, 

President; Don Seorch, W3AZD, Vice-President; Art 

Rouch, WAVZ, Secretory; ond Morion Rouch, WB4RFB 

Treosurer. Our informol meetings ore held monthly, third 

Soturdoy ot I2 noon. Visitors ore olwoys welcome. For 

further informotion contoct our Secretory ot 

w4vz@bellsouth. net 

Art Rauch W4VZ, Secretory 

Chopter I6, Bqrry M. Goldwoter (AZ) 

The Arizono chopter aCWA held lts spring meeting ot 

Chod's Sieokhouse ond Soloon in Tucson April28,2009 

with '19 Members ond guests ottending. The meeting 

begon with introductions oround the room ond then lunch 

wos served ot l2:00 o'clock. After lunch, President Doug 

Besemer, KAYPL, introduced our speoker, Steve Sipple, 

KBZaHP, who tolked to us obout the Notionol Weother 

Service Phoenix SKYWARN Associotion, WXZPHX' 

WXZPHX is orgonized to ossist the Notionol Weother 

Service Forecost Office in Phoenix in obtoining reqhime 

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President, Doug Besemer, K0VPL, (B) presenting Josh Premack, W0KZD, (L) with 

his 75-Year Award. 

President, Doug Besemer, K0VPL, presenting Herb Ash, K7ABR, with his 75-Year 

Award. 

reporis of severe weother or domoge due to weother. He 

invited troined SKYWARN volunteers throughout Arizono to 

check in to the SYKWARN nets ond porticipote in the communicotion 

of criticol informotion. Following this inieresting 

ond informotive preseniotion o business meeting wos held 

during which o number of Anniversory Awords were presented 

io owordees ottending the meeting. Those 

owordees not ottending were moiled their qwords. Those 

receiving owords were: KZARR, Herb Q. Ash, 75 yr; 

KCIYPL, Douglos Besemer, 50 yr; WZLGB, Lyle R. Brown, 

75 yeor; W9FQK, Jockson Busk, 60 yr; W2QL, Anthony 

H. Cipollo, 70 yr; W7EPA,, Joel Clork, 55 yr; WZLHI, 

Williom L. English, 60yr; W5VJH, JohnJ. Gross,60yr; 

WZLNA, Chorles A. Heber, 60 yr; WZES, Gerold E. 

Higgins, 60 yr; W4C|H, Jeon iolkovsky, 60 yr; WAKZD 

Joshuo Premock, 75 yeor; KZAMR, Anthony M. Ribeiro, 

Quater Century W reless Assoc ation 

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Left to tight - Harvey Zilm, AB7UT,50 yr award; Gerry Higgins, W7ES,60-Year 

Award; and Doug Besemer, K0VPL,50 year award. 

55 yr; WBEPO, Wolter Schwiebert, 60 yr; W2HTX, Leroy 

A. Woodruff ,75 yr; ond ABZUI Horvey B. Zilm, Jr. 50 

yr. The meeting wos odlourned shortly ofter 2:00 PM. 

Boh McCuskey, WTBV Secretory /lreosurer 

Chqpfer 19, Missouri (MO) 

At our December ,l3, 2008 meeting, Bill Housmon, 

WORUO, gove o very interesting presentotion on his 

recent visit to ARRL Heodquorters ond WIAW. 

Jonuory 24, 2009, Chopter 19 hod o toble ot the 

Winterfest Homfest. Monning the ioble were Ken Scott, 

WSVHL; Vern Hoyes, WOCYF, qnd John Germonos, 

WBSPNU. Severol of our members congregoted ot the 

toble. We olso signed up o new member. Horry Hoeusser, 

WAOCNS, ioined ACWA ond Locol Chopter 19. 

Welcome oboord Horry. 

Our next Annuol Chopter Picnic will be Soturdoy 

August 8,2009. Once ogoin we will be ot the Scout 

Shelter ot Kirkwood Pork. Mony thonks to Chorles Nogel, 

KOCW for moking the orrongements. 

ln is with deep regret thst I must report the possing of 

our beloved aCWA member ond friend, Andy Becker. 

We continue to meei the second Soturdoy of eoch 

month ot Duffy's Pub ond Grill. Duffy's is locoted in 

Kirkwood Missouri. We invite oll QCWA members possing 

through St. Louis to ioin us. 

Our weekly Net Control stotion Bill Bell, W9BEL, 

would like io invite aCWA members troveling thru St. 

Louis to pleose check in. This net meets every Wednesdoy 

evening ot Z:00 pm on two meters ol 147.360 MHz. 

John Germanos, WB9PNU, Secrelary /freasurer 

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Chqpter 29. Finger Lokes (NYl 

Chopter 29 hos moved its lost Fridoy of the month meeting 

ploce to Twin Trees Too Restouront in Solvoy, NY. The 

move wos necessitoted by the sudden ond unonnounced 

closing of our previous host restouront in Jonuory. At our 

first outing ot Twin Trees, Hugo (Bud) Keller wos honored 

lor 75 yeors of service to Amoteur Rodio. He ioins 

Chopter 29 members Chorlie Floring, W2AK, ond 

George Cook, W2RBK, ot the Z5-yeor milestone. Bud, 

ond his wife Betty, ore regulor ottendees ot our luncheons - 

especiolly if they con coordinote with Lou, W2OPF, ond 

Morge Agresti. At the some meeting, Jim Mozley, 

W2BCH, wos presented with his ZO-Yeor Service Aword. 

John Soergel, WA2DGC, ond Fronk Wiethuechter, K2RSY 

were presented with 50-Yeor Service Awords. A 60-Yeor 

Certificote wos previously sent to Fred Adsit, NY2V whose 

circumstonces preclude his ottending our meetings. ln 

November we hod o fomily first with three generotions of 

Cooks in ottendonce: George, W2RBK, sons George ond 

Don, KC2MGO ond grondson Andrew. December wos 

"show ond tell" time. Steve, N2TKX lugged in o GE model 

260 "portoble" rodio. This heovy metol medium ond short 

wove receiver wos powered by o 2 volt wet cell ond used 

the lLxx series of tubes. B+ wos from o vibrotor supply. 

Chopter member Don Longhom, W2CVJ, formerly licensed 

os SCVJ in 1926 ot the oge oi 17, celebroted his l00ih 

birthdoy on Morch 9th. Don wos octive in commerciol 

rodio in Auburn ond Syrocuse, NY ond wos director of 

operotions for Syrocuse's first television stotion: WHEN-TV 

(now WTVH, chonnel 5) in Syrocuse from 1948 to ,l958. 

Hoppy birthdoy, Donl 

lock Roubie, KZIDD, Secretary 

Chqpter 3O, West Virginio (W VAI 

The winter of 2008/2009 wos o rough one here in West 

Virginio. We hod mony, mony cold doys ond the usuol 

omount of snowfoll. lt wqs o greot iime to stoy inside by 

the fire ond ploy rodio. The .l60 meter seoson wos very 

productive for some of the members. 

It is with o greot deol of sodness thot I report the possing 

of Bill Poce, KBBZM, of South Chorleston, WV. Bill 

wos olwoys o regulor ot the WV Stote ARRL Convention ot 

Jockson's Mill. 

Chopter member, Gorry Ritchie, W8Ol, of Huntington, 

WV hos returned from the Desecheo DXpedition (KD5) in 

good shope ond I om sure he'll relote lots of interesting 

stories for Chopter members. 

Severol members ottended the Chqrleston Homfest on 

Morch 2lst. lt wos greot to see everyone ogoin. And one 

of our very own, Clork Stewort, W8TN, wos chosen os 

the Konowho Volley Hom-of-the-yeor for 2009. 

Congrotuloiions Clork ond thonks for oll of the mentoring 

you hove provided to the mony new homs over the yeors. 

Severol Chopter 30 members will be key ployers in the 

celebrotion of the Mountoineer Amoteur Rodio 

Associotion's 90th Anniversory this summer. Wotch for our 

speciol event stoiion, WBSR the weekend of July 25th. 

The MARA hos been in existence since l9l9 ond offilioted 

with the ARRL since Moy lOth, 1935. lt is the oldest 

omoteur rodio club in West Virginio. 

Alon R. Carpnter, W80P, Secretory/freasurer 

Chqpter 36, Norihwest lndionq (lN) 

It is with greot pleosure thot I submit this report for 

Chopter 36, Northwest lndiono, ofter o long hiotus. We 

begon the process of reoctivoting the Chopter ot the end 

of 2008 ond eorly 2009, soliciting the help of existing 

aCWA members ond recruiting eligible newcomers. At 

this writing, we hove l5 aCWA full members, ond ot 

leost o couple more with memberships pending. Our ronks 

ore olso greotly enhonced by some wonderful Chopter 

guests who porticipote with us. 

Our first meeting reolly showed the tenocity of this 

group. We met ot Round The Clock Restouront in 

Chesterton on Feb. 3rd during the worst blizzord of the 

2008-09 seoson. Eight people broved the extreme weother 

to be there ond see whot we were up to, ond to help. 

However, we knew thot even more people wonted to be 

there... but hod better sense thon us! We met ogoin on 

Mor. 3rd ot Gelsosomo'sPizzo, ogoin in Chesterton. 

There were neorly 20 of us this time, with foir weother, 

ond good food ond beveroges. lt wos olso o strong 

enough showing to hold on election of Officers, with Ston 

Vondiver, W4SV elected os President; ond Troy Horrison, 

KC9E, elected os Secretory-Treosurer. Troy olso gove us 

(Left side, nearest to turthest): John, NGOB; and Robb, NqDXP, (Bight side, near- 

est to furthest): Bruce, W90TN; Dan, WqDWS; and Carl, WSTAD. 

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(Left side, nearest to furthest): Carl, W9CJH; Troy, KC9E and Troy's wrte Chudette, 

KA9LXZ. (Right side, nearest to turthest): John, WqZG; and Bob, W90RW. 

(Left side, nearest to furthest): Tom, WSFIB; and Joel, W9WJU. (Bight side, near- 

est to furthes|: nich, N9PB; Rich's wife, Lucy; and George, K9WWT, 

our togline, "Creoky Knees ond Rusty Keys." Our Chopier 

reoctivotion wos recognized by Heodquorters shortly following 

our election. 

One of our plons is to hqve o friendly competiiion of 

some kind qt our meetings. ln Morch it wos on "oldest 

QSL cord" contest (for on octuol contoct) won by John 

Miller, W9ZG. John's QSO with WN0RVE wos in 1954. 

A close second ploce wos Bruce Bolsley's (W9OTN) aSO 

with WSSVZ in 1955; ond by sironge coincidence, 

W9SVZ loter become one of Chopter 36's Chorter 

Membersl Our April meeting is set for Apr. 4th ond we 

will be looking for the "oldest semi-outomotic key" (bug). I 

don't wont to speok too soon, but I know thot Bruce, 

W9OTN, will be hord to beot. But this isn't footboll, ond 

the ideq isn't winning... its shoring our memories with 

eoch other ond hoving o good time. 

We welcome you to visit our website ot 

www.chopter36.org where you con find more photos from 

our meetings, os well os o brief history of our eorly doys, 

Quarler Century Wireless Association 

Iie:p{},i:ts 

thonks to informotion supplied by Generol Monoger, 

Chuck Wolbridge. lt wos o thrill to leorn thot fomed qmoteur 

outhor Herb Brier, W9EGA (loter W9AD), wos one 

of our Chorter Members in 1967 . We ore now trying to 

collect sconned QSL cqrds ond photos from these eorly 

Chopter 36 members to disploy on the website. lf ony of 

you con help us in this endeovor, pleose contoct Ston, 

W4SV (info on the Contoct poge). We're in the process of 

odding QSL cords ond pictures for our curreni members 

olso. 

Stan Vandiver, W4SV President 

Chqpter 38, Sqn Antonio (TX) 

Chopter 38 - Son Antonio, Texos continues to be the 

home for this QCWA Chopter. Membership continues ot 

oboui ihe 2008 level, 35 poid members to dote. Chopter 

meetings oyeroge from obout 12 lo 20 members ond 

guests. The Chopter meetings ore usuolly held on the 

fourth Soturdoy, Noon, of eoch month, ond feotures o 

luncheon followed by o progrom of generol interesi. For 

exomple, the Morch 2009 meeting wos held ot Angelo's 

Itolion Restouront on 24165 lH-'10 West ond feotured o 

guest speoker, Richord Elder, WBSCAN, who gove o progrom 

on Neor Verticol lncident Skywove (NVIS) propogotion 

ond oniennos. 

Plons for the April 25 QCWA Chopter 38 meeting coll 

for o luncheon of Cerito's Mexicon Restquront on NW 

Militory Highwoy beginning ot I l:00AM. This meeting 

will feoture on "ARRL 25 Yeors Service Aword" for Jeqn 

Jonk, W5Ul ond o progrom on "DX Chosing" by Jim 

Bobo, W5ODD. 

The Moy QCWA Chopter 3B meeting will be held on 

20 June to occommodote FIELD DAY. The progrom will feoture 

"D-Stor ond VHF ond UHF Digitol Repeoters" ond 

their world-wide internet connections by Wolly Gofford, 

WBSDTW. Locotion for this meeting will be onnounced 

Ioter. 

Chopter 38 meets on-the-oir regulorly on Sundoy 

nights beginning ot B:3OPM locol time on the Son Antonio 

Repeoter Orgonizotion's 1 46.3Y 4/94 MHz Repeoter 

Finolly, the QCWA Club Officers meet on the 3rd Fridoy 

Noon ot o locol Restouront to coordinote chopter octivities. 

Visitors ore welcome to qll QCWA octivities. 

Cloy Loster, WSZPV Choler Vice'President 

Dollos Chopier 4l wos presented ot o recent meeting with 

on interesting progrom furnished by Notionol Director ond 

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Chapter 41 member Don Shelton, K50K, demonstrates operation of 

0S0NET/CQ100, a V0lP non-BF mode ol Amateur Badio. 

chopter member Vql Erwin, W5PUI who mode on on-site 

operotionol demonstrotion of both Echolink ond 

ASONET/CQ100. While Vol exploined ond onswered 

questions regording VOIP-type operotion, Donold J. 

Shelton, K5OK, used o portoble notebook computer with 

ottoched microphone to proieci the octuol VOIP operotion 

on o lorge screen for oll to see. (Vol noted thot most ony 

contemporory computer with lnternet occess could be used 

for VOIP operotion.) During the course of the progrom, on 

Echolink QSO wos occomplished with our Notionql 

QCWA President, Bob Roske, NOUF. At the time, Bob wos 

operoting 2M mobile ond wos on his woy to o Skyworn 

meeting neor his home in Minnesoto. Chopter 4l members 

were omozed to heor Bob's voice oddressing the 

Chopter members. Vol ond Don showed the versotility ond 

lotitude offered by both progroms in enobling porticulorly 

those confined to nursing homes, oportments, ond similor 

focilities where conventionol omoteur rodio equipment setups 

ore not feosible to continue in our hobby of two-woy 

communicotion both cross-country ond throughout the 

world utilizing fomilior bonds ond modes. While the systems 

utilize the Internet insteod of "reol rodio" which some 

moy find too untroditionol, others w;ll find the visuol reolism 

ond octuol ourol contocts to be fulfilling ofter hoving 

been off the oir for circumstonces often beyond their control. 

Operotion on both Echolink ond QSONET/Ca100 

mondotes thot the porticipont must provide proof of pos- 

session of on outheniic current Amoteur Rodio License 

issued in his or her nome, which is then verified. 

Boh Olney, N5Nf, Recording Secretory 

Chqpter 45. Cifrus (FL) 

HomCotion is over qnd it wos o greot success for both our 

Menherc of Chapter 45 enjoying a wondertd Sunday Dinner 

President AL LaPete4 W2AS, presenb Norm Lauterette, WA4HYJ, with a 

chapter il5 Life Menbership Certificate. 

Chopter ond Notionol insofor os pure enioyment for the 

porticiponts os well os o goodly number of new members 

ond renewols for both. Seeing Notionol Directors ond 

mony of our other friends wos perhops the highlight of the 

event occomponied by o wonderful forum by Notionol 

Director, Lorry, WA9JMO. 

The big event for our Chopter wos our quorterly 

sociol/dinner meeting ond the showing of our recently-produced 

DVD on the 40 yeors of Chopter 45 on Morch 22. 

It went over in o yery big woy ond wos enioyed by oll 38 

ottendees. Normolly, no business is conducied oi these 

quorterly meetings but on exception wos mode in this cose 

ond Norm Louterette, WA4HYJ wos presented o Chopter 

Life Membership Ce*ificote for his B months of dedicoted 

ond hord work on the DVD proiect. 

We hove hod the usuol ups ond downs of ony orgonizotion 

ond regrettobly hove lost o beloved wife of one of 

our very octive members; we hove proyed for the fomily 

ond now continue on to spreod hope ond comfort to oihers 

in need. 

Our group continues to enioy our monthly meetings 

ond quorterly dinners; ottendonce hos been excellent ond 

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we hope to continue this into the future. 

The Chopter owns ond operotes qn open repeoter, 

W4PLA, operoiing on 147.,l95 MHz (no tone). 

Scheduled net is ot ,l930 hours locol time on Tuesdoy of 

eoch week. All homs in the oreo ore invited to check in 

ond onyone possing through ot net time is porticulorly 

welcome. 

AL LaPeter, W2AS, President 

Chqpter 48, fhe Treqsure Coost (FL) 

Chopter 48, "The Treosure Coost Chopter", held its onnu- 

Chapter itq, The Treasure Coast Chapter's Annual meeting, Twelve members, 

seven spouses and Miss Jazmine, held by President Elect Joyce, K4EEB, attended. 

ol meeting ond election of Officers ot Bob Evons 

Restouront ot the Vero Beoch Moll. ln ottendqnce were 2O 

members, including spouses ond the gronddoughter of 

Richord, AB4AZ, Miss Jozmine. After new ond old busi- 

ness wos ioken core of, the election took ploce. The 

incumbents were reelected. Joyce, K4EER, os President; 

Dick, K9BTU, os VP; ond Woody, K4EBK, os 

Secretory,/Treosurer. A moment of silence wos held in 

remembronce of our Silent Key, Burt Lowton, W2JLO, who 

possed owoy on New Yeors Doy. He will reolly be 

missed ! 

The "trovelers", Joe Kolb, W4VL, ond his wife, Glodys, 

were in the oreo ond were oble to ottend. They usuolly 

ottend the Orlondo Homcotion ond moke o point io visit 

the Chopter members ofterword. 

Our Thursdoy "brunches" ore held ot Bob Evons 

Restouront, on Route 60, ot the Vero Moll in Vero Beoch. 

We hove, on overoge, 22 in ottendonce. Scheduled for 

I I om (YEAH RIGHT) you better get there by 9 or 9:30 to 

get o seoi! 

Woody Andetson, K4EBK, Secrelary,/lreasurer 

Quarler Century Wireless Assoclation 

A Christmas card from many years ago of Florence, Bnrce, and their sons, Carl 

and Don (Carl is in the stroller), When the DX is rolling in, it can be so hard to 

get a Ham to the dinner table! (Christmas card used with the permission of Carl 

Montgomery,) 

Chqpter 49. Peqch Store (GA) 

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The possing of Florence Montgomery, N4TNZ, eorlier this 

yeor soddened the Chopter. Florence ond her husbond, 

Bruce, W4BFR (SK), were longtime supporters of QCWA 

ond Chopter 49.|n oddition to hosting, on occosion, our 

onnuol summer picnic, Bruce ond Florence hod been regulors 

ot the bimonthly club meetings. Florence requested 

thot memoriols be mode to QCWA ond os o result severol 

hundred dollors were contributed to the QCWA Memoriol 

Scholorship Fund in her nome. Among Florence's things 

wos o Christmos cord from mony yeors ogo of Florence, 

Bruce ond their sons, Corl ond Don (Corl is in the stroller). 

When the DX is rolling in, it con be so hord to get o Hom 

to the dinner toblel (Christmos cord used with the permission 

of Corl Montgomery.) 

We continue to meet every other month. A recent progrom 

wos built oround o "show ond tell" of homebrew 

equipment thot Chopter 49 members hod sitting oround 

the shock. There were only two requirements: I ) it hod to 

be home brew ond 2) ot some point in time it hod to hove 

worked. Severol pieces of geor were presented. John, 

KZSYS, shored his 5 wott 80/40 meter MOPAR tronsistorized 

tronsmitter built in ,I966 or 1967 thot still works. 

Seems the tronsistors were rother hord to find ond hod to 

be ordered by his dod odding sentimentol volue to o 

rother old ond simple rig. Fronkie, W4BJI brought olong 

o scrotch built duol troce oscilloscope thot is o thing of 

beouty to on omoteur rodio operotor. Frqnkie reported to 

the group the lost time he plugged it in, it still octuolly 

workedl A most interesting item wos o 2-meter covity filter 

built completely from scrotch using repurposed circuit 

boord. One of the moior issues thot wos encountered dur- 

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ing construction wos the order of ossembly. Getting ot 

every joint with the ole' soldering gun wos not on eosy 

tosk! 

As more "senior homs" aCWA members probobly 

hove mony such proiects sitting oround collecting dusi. 

Even better, there ore probobly some members out there 

who hove vintoge homebrew geor in doily use. Here ot 

Chopter 49, we would love to heor the homebrew stories 

from other QCWA Chopters. lf you hove o story to shore, 

hopefully with o picture or two, pleose contoct John Kludt, 

KZSYS, the Chopter 49 secretory ot kZsys@orrl.net so thot 

we might better shore our heritoge. 

Chopter 49 continues to meet the third Soturdoy of the 

even months ot l2:00 noon. We generolly meet ot Ryon's 

Fomily Steokhouse in Norcross, Georgio. Pleose check our 

website, http://www.qcwo49.org for the lotest detoils. 

John Kludt, K75YS, Secretory 

Chqprer 53. Suncoost (FLl 

We hod 33 members, spouses ond friends in ottendonce 

ol our 07 Jonuory luncheon/meeting. Following the business 

meeting, Nils "LEN" Corlson, K4IWL offered on inieresting 

ond informotive power point presentotion on the 

"History of Hom Rodio ond the Pioneers Who Mode lt 

Hoppen!". 

Our 04 Februory meeting wos ottended by 36 chopter 

members, spouses ond friends. A foscinoting progrom on 

X-roys wos presented by Bob Avrutik, N I RA; Jon 

Kriigsmon, NlBDF; ond Fort Myers Chopter member Lorry 

Zimmer,W4LWZ, wiih ossistonce by Hons Nopfel, 

WB2ZZB. 

There were 35 members, spouses ond friends ot our 

04 Morch luncheon/meeting. Jock Porsons, K3OTY 

showed o plethoro of photos of his former collection of 

ontique bottery powered broodcost receivers, spork gop 

tronsmitiers, heodphones, telegroph keys, botteries, etc. 

Quite o collection of such memorobiliol 

From October through Moy, Suncoost Chopter 53 

meets ot Denny's, 320 I Bee Ridge Rood, Sorosoto, FL, ot 

I l:30 AM the first Wednesdoy of the month. We olso 

hove informol lunches, on the some schedule, June through 

September, ot the Pondo Povilion, I265 South Tomiomi 

Troil (US 41) in Venice, FL. All aCWA members living in, 

or visiting, the Florido Suncoost oreq ore olwoys welcome. 

Pleose contoct our President, Bill Anderson, WB4TJH vio 

wb4tih@verizon.net if you ore in the oreo ond would like 

to ioin with us. 

tock Spoot W4lS, Seuetary 

Chapter 62 0fficers for 2009, Doug Hawkins, W3HH, Secretary; Ben Russell, N6SL, 

President; Len Lukas, Wl GFX, treasurer; and Ken Simpson, WBEK, Vice Presielent. 

Croft Taylot; VESCT; and Hans Napfel, WB2ZZB, were visitors at the Chapter 62 

February meeting. 

Chqpter 62, Suwqnnee (FL) 

We hod o greot Februory meeting thqt wqs ottended by 

Croft Toylor, VE3CT. Croft gove o brief report on 

whot wos going on with QCWA. Hons Nopfel, WB2ZZB 

gove us o very nice Powerpoint presentotion on 

eorly rodio. Mort Cohen, WA2ARS, reported on the 

recent Orlondo Homfest. All reports were thot the ottendonce 

wos very good ot the homfest. Our Treosurer, Len 

Lukos, Wl GFX onnounced thot dues ore now due. 

We would like to see more people check in to our 

Soturdoy nei ot 9 AM on 3940 KHZ. All ore welcome. 

Chopter 62 meets on the fourth Thursdoy of the month. 

On the even-numbered months we meet ot The 

Golden Corrol, 2l l1 SW College Rood (Route 200) in 

Ocolo ot I l:30 AM. On the odd numbered months we 

meet ot Dennys Restouront on Route 40 ot the l-25 interchonge 

ot 5 PM. Everyone is welcome to ioin us. 

Doug Howkins, W3HH, Secretory 

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John Thomason, WBSSY| West Gull Wce Director, duilng presentation on ARBL 

activities. 

Chqpter 63, Oklqhomq City (OK) 

The Quorter Century Wireless Associotion, Centrol 

Oklohomo Chopter 63 held their first quorterly meeting ot 

1 l:00 o.m. on Soturdoy, Jonuory 24,2009, ol lhe 

Hometown Buffet in Oklohomo City. After on enioyoble 

meol ond good conversotion, John Thomoson, WBSSYI 

spoke to us obout ARRL octivities. At the time, John wos 

our Oklohomo Section Monoger, but since then he hos 

become the West Gulf Vice Director. 

We hove ihree locol nets thot ore reloted to QCWA 

Chopter 63. The W5AS Net meets every Sundoy morning 

ot7:30 o.m. locol time on 3.845 MHz with eorly bird 

check-ins os eorly os 5:00 o.m. Iocol time. Our W5HXL 

Memoriol Net meets every Thursdoy ot 7:00 p.m. locol 

time on 147 .1O5 MHz. 

We hove o new net ond mentoring progrom, colled 

the K5DLE Memoriol "Elmering" Net, which meets ot Z:00 

p.m locol time every Tuesdoy on 147 .'105 MHz. This net 

wos formed to help new omoteurs become more fomilior 

with on-the-oir proctices ond leorn obout the vorious omoteur 

octivities ovoiloble. This progrom is designed to help 

introduce the newcomer obout hom rodio. The new homs 

run the net, but it is overseen by members of Chopter 63. 

After the roll coll ond check-ins, there is o Q&A Session 

for oll to porticipote in. There ore no "dumb" questions, 

with the exceptions of those not osked. The net hos hod o 

surprisingly good response; ond os o result of the interest, 

o new "technicion level" closs is now being tought by 

Skip, N5CFM, the founder of the K5DLE Memoriol 

Quarter Century Wlreless Assoc ation 

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"Elmering" progrom. 

Meetings for Chopter 63 ore held quorterly ond dotes 

ore posted on our website which moy be found ot 

http ://www. qcwo.org/qcwoO63/i ndex. htm l. 

Our Treosurer, Rodney Steword, M.D., K5lBi (OCWA 

#303721 possed owoy Wednesdoy, Morch 25, 2009, 

ofter struggling wiih concer for severol months. His survivors 

include his wife of 56 yeors, Bonnie Ruth, four 

grown children, ond seven grondchildren. Besides omoieur 

rodio, Rod belonged to severol flying orgonizotions, 

ond hod other interests including photogrophy, computers, 

electronics, clossicol music, hybrid teo roses, koi fish, 

Mercedes-Benz cqrs, booting, ond trovel. He continued to 

octively proctice medicine os o Senior Avioiion Medicol 

Exominer until his deoth. He will be missed by the mony 

people who knew him. 

Lyeol Amos, W1SIC 

Chopter 64, El Pqso (TX) 

Howdy omigos from Chopter 64 in El Poso, TX ond southern 

NM! Our Chopter recently instolled Officers ond 

Directors tor 2OO9 including President, Bob Rogers, 

K5HRI; Vice-President, Bob Corroll, Sr., K5lE; 

Secretory/Treosurerr Monny Gonzolez, W2BFI; qnd 

Directors, Bob Smith, K5VRF; Rick Rumbough, W5PIE; 

C.W. Hiett, NSHRD; ond Kermit Schouer, KM5W 

Recent Chopter news includes presentotion of QCWA 

Anniversory Awords by President Bob Rogers, KSHR|. A 

7O-Yeor Certificoie wos presented to Vosco Rhoden, 

W5NPI ond o 5O-Yeor Ceriificote to Bob Smith, K5VRF. 

Congrotulotions guys! 

A very speciol birthdoy coke wos presented to o very 

speciol member of Chopter 64. Pollord "Bill" Rodgers, 

KSWAE, 94yeors young, shored his coke with oll in 

Chapter 1fficers, lst row L to B - Kermit, KMSW; Bob, KSHRI; and Bob, KSVBF. 

2nd row L to R - Bick, WSPIE; Manny, WZBF| and Bob, KslE, 

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CHAHIER reports 

Left - Bob KSVBF (50 years). Bight - Vasco WSNPI (70 years). 

ottendonce. Bill is very octive on the oir os well os within 

our Chopter. He serves os Chopter Historion ond mointoins 

severol volumes contoining Chopter events, phoios, 

ond informotion on post ond present members. Bill con 

often be found Sundoys ot 1 500-17002 on 2B.44OMhz, 

honding out contocts for the coveted Worked All El Poso 

(WAE) Aword which he directed on beholf of the El Poso 

Amoteur Rodio Club (WSES) for mony yeors. Hoppy birthdoy, 

Bill, ond mony morel 

Our Chopter hos q monthly luncheon meeting ot Furr's 

Cofeterio locoted in the Sunrise Shopping Center in 

Northeqst El Pqso on the third Soturdoy of eoch month. 

We olso enioy o weekly net on Soturdoys ot 0B:30 

Mountoin time on 3.933KH2. Net control vories using our 

Chopter Club Stotion collsign, W5RO. Out-of-iown checkins 

ore especiolly welcome! 

Rkk Runhaugh, WiPlE, Director 

Chqprer 65, Niqgqro (NY) 

The bod news iust keeps infecting Chopter 65. Bob Jones, 

W2OZT, possed owoy on Februory I O ot the oge of 94. 

Just lost yeor, he wos oworded the Z5-Yeor Service 

ploque. He ls survived by Chopter member Lorroine, 

K2ZYS. Our heortfelt condolences to you Lorroine. 

We hove been wondering why Morv Hess, W2WKU, 

o regulor otlendee of our luncheons, wos no longer showing 

up. So for, oll we know is thot he hod follen ond wos 

hospitolized for o bit. His phone is disconnected, ond he 

hos moved to on unknown locotion. We will continue our 

ottempts to get in conioct with him. 

Our Vice President/Treqsurer, Tom Wholen, W2Ql, 

hos suffered o mild stroke ond hos been hospitolized ond 

undergoing rehob, ond is now in on ossisted-living focility. 

We ore hoping thot he improves enough so thot we con 

tronsport him to our monthly luncheons. He hos decided 

thot it is best thot he turn his duties over to me. 

Tom hos been our dedicoted net control operotor for 

our weekly Z5-meter net for mony yeors. I hove tried in 

voin for mony yeors to encouroge check-ins, if onything, in 

grotitude to Tom for his efforts. After ottempts to fill Tom's 

shoes by toking over lhe net, I hove thrown in the towel 

due to zero interest. For the post severol yeors, we hove 

hod only iwo or three check-ins, but lotely there hove been 

none. Alos, club coll, V/2SD, is now silenced. 

It is sod to wotch the downword slide of Chopter 65. 

This wos such o robust group when I ioined the QCWA in 

1998. We hqd on octive bunch of members ond XYLs 

bock then, but mony of them hqve either possed owoy or 

moved owoy, while others simply dropped out due to 

heolth problems or woning interest. Recruitmeni efforts ot 

locol homfests hove been lorgely unsuccessful, so I decided 

"Whot's the use - why bother?" lt's iust too much on 

the bock of one person. Why wos it different in the post? 

Well, it sure helped when there were 4 Officers shoring 

the lood. Now, yours truly will be performing oll 4 Officer 

duties. Common sense dictotes thot I connot ollow myself 

to be in this situotion for very much longer. Whot is left of 

the Boord of Directors will be contocted for the purpose of 

either correcting the situotion or putting into motion the dissolution 

of Chopter 65. 

Lony Ryhacki, WA2AR+ President, Secrelary 

Chopter 67 Trovis County (TX) 

Chopter 67 is continuing to rebound from its low membership 

during the post few yeors. We ore holding our meetings 

ot the IHOP on US Hruy I 83 in Northwest Austin. 

ln Jonuory, we presented SO-Yeor pins ond Certificotes 

to Bob McCord, W5ATA; Stuort Rohre, KSKVH; Jim Rudd, 

WSSIO; ond Honk Belopovolich, WASZLI. Our Awords 

Hank, WASZLI presenting to Stuart, KSKVH 

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Curt, W4QBU, presenting to Hank, WASZLI. 

Duie, K5KZ0, making presentation. 

presentotion wos followed by o technicol presentotion 

given by Milt Crom, W8NUE. Milt tolked obout 

"Operoting PSK3I without o PC". He described the development 

of the NUE-PSK Modem ond o brief demonstrotion 

of its operotion. 

At our Februory meeting, Duie Roth, K5KZQ gove on 

excellent presentotion obout some of the high power 

broodcost stotions iust ocross the border in Mexico 

(Remember Wolfmon Jock??) 

Kees Tolen, K5BCQ, discussed kit building using 

todoy's components (e.g. SMT) ond tools ot our Morch 

meeting. Some of the kits thot Kees discussed were for 

hom rodio (CW Troiner/Keyboord) while others were for 

generol interest (Electronic Borometer, Electronic 

Thermometer). 

Stuort Rohre, K5KVH wos elected Vice President of 

Chopter 67 ot ovr Morch meeting. 

Milt Cron, W&NUE, Secretory 

Chqpter 70, Notionol Cqpitol Region 

Otfqwq, Ontqrio, Cqnqdq (ON) 

Doug Leach, VEZXK, presents 71-Year plaques to Bill Bafiie, VE3AAS (upper 

left), Barc Dowden, VE3TT (upper right), and Joan Powell, VE1ZC, on behatt ot 

her father, Clawle Bailey, VEIHU (lower centre). 

During the first quorter of 2009, in oddition to our regulor 

weekly breokfosts, Chopter 70 held o dinner meeting on 

Februory 1Zth. 

Before the dinner, Director Joon Powell VE3ZC reported 

on octivities of QCWA Notionol. She informed members 

thot the forthcoming QCWA boord of directors meeting 

will be held ot Doyton this yeor. She olso noted thoi 

the ARRL will be holding its conyention there os well. The 

OCWA 2009 Convention on Hollond Americo's - MS 

Eurodom will be soiling out of Ft Louderdole Florido, 

October 24 - 31. 

The highlight of the meeting wos the presentotion of 

7S-Yeor ploques to three Chopter 70 members. Bill Borrie, 

VE3AAS, ond Borc Dowden, VE3TI were present to 

receive their ploques ond to give brief orol summories 

describing how they become involved in omoteur rodio 

75 yeors ogo in 1934. A third 75-Yeor ploque, for 

Cloude Boiley, VE'lHU, wos occepted on his beholf by his 

doughter, Joon Powell , Y13ZC. 

Following dinner, Dove Goodwin, VE3AAQ, President 

of Rodio Amoteurs of Conodo (RAC), gove o PowerPoint 

presentotion describing the stotus of our Notionol Amoteur 

Rodio Society ond outlined some current threots ond 

opportunities. He exploined why it is essentiol thoi more 

omoteurs support RAC, ond onswered numerous quesiions 

from QCWA members present. 

Chopter Z0 goined two new members, ond there were 

no Silent Keys during ihe first quorter of 2009. 

Ken Pulfer, VE?PU, Seuelary 

Chqpfer 76, Blue Ridge (NC) 

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March guest was Henderson County Sheriff, Rick Davis. 

K4JAB, WqIXX, N4ZA, 

The eorly months of ony yeor in the mountoins of western 

North Corolino tend to be o bit dicey with respect to 

weother. One doy con bring o smoll blizzord followed by 

o bolmy, spring-like doy. With thoi thought, we decided 

to hove progroms in these months thot could be concelled 

on short notice but reployed loter without o greot deol of 

rescheduling or inconvenience. Fortunotely, the weother 

turned out to be o non-foctor. 

Our Jonuory progrom revisiied o recent DX-pedition to 

St. Borthelemy (FJ) down in the Coribbeon. Si. Borts 

become o new entity in mid-December os mony of you 

know, ond hos hod more thon one DXpedition since thot 

time. Two of our members, Dove Anderson, K4SV, ond 

Phil Florig, W9lXX, both well known in DX circles, showed 

o slide presentotion of their operotion (reod "vocotion") to 

St Borts. The entire teom wos feotured on the cover of o 

receni edition of DX Mogozine. lt's olwoys interesiing to 

see whot ontennos were used ond how well they worked 

from ihe people who were there. 

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K4SV and W9LXX. 

Stacey 75-Year Award. 

ln Februory, we received o video from the Northern 

Colifornio DX Foundotion on the 5L2MS expedition to 

Liberio. During the yeors thot I worked for Pon Am, I 

spent o consideroble omount of time flying into Liberio 

qnd West Africo from the lote l96Os thru the eorly 1980s 

ond embellished the video with bockground info on the 

founding, history ond the recent civil wors thot olmost 

destroyed Liberiq. Fortunotely, o tenuous peoce hos been 

restored, o new ond populor presideni elected in 2006 

ond it oppeors thot the country is ogoin on the trock of 

domesiic peoce ond growth. The 5L2MS DXpedition wos 

o three-week operotion in Ociober 2OO7 by four Duich 

homs under ihe ouspices of the "Mercy Ships" orgonizotion. 

You con find oll the info on the 5L2MS expedition ot 

www. I i berio 2007 .con / lib -2OO7 / home. ph p. The "Mercy 

Ships" orgonizotion is on interesting story in itself ond you 

con find much more informotion ot www.mercyships.org/ 

Also in Februory, our Chopter Secreiory, Jeff Kelly, 

K4JAB received o 5O-Yeor Aword ond Post President Phil 

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Florig, W9|XX, received his 55-Yeor Aword. The 

Certificotes ond congrotulqtions were presented by 

Chopter 76 President Al Smith, N4ZA. 

Finolly, our Morch guest wos Henderson County Sheriff 

Rick Dovis. Sheriff Dovis hos been our speoker on severol 

previous occosions ond this wos on updote on vorious 

"works in progress." Most importontly wos the locol 

Sheriff's Office involvement in the federol "287G,' progrom. 

This progrom troins deputies os ICE (lmmigrotion 

ond Customs Enforcement) officers ond ollows them to oci 

in thot copocity to detoin ond eventuolly deport illegol 

oliens who hove committed o crime(s). I con personolly 

ottest to the success of the progrom hoving seen the 

District Court dockets decreose by 5O%l The,,2B7G,, progrom 

works ond hopefully more low enforcement iurisdictions 

ocross the country will ioin the progrom to enforce 

our lows ond internotionol borders. 

We were olso privileged to oword o 75 yeor ploque 

to Fronk Stocey, WAZTH, who gove us o bit of insight into 

his eorly hom operotions ond equipment. Pictured with 

Fronk ond moking the presentotion is Chopter Z6 

President Al Smith, N4ZA. 

Our Soturdoy morning net (0845 locol) continues on 

3.740 Mhz. Since thot's the Extro portion of the bond, we 

olso crossbond to 3.8.l0 Mhz. Some hove osked "why 

not iust use 3.8,l0?'The simple onswer is thot the Extro 

portion of the bond is not crowded ond we hove few 

members who ore not oble to use 3.240. W4LSK is our 

normol NCS ond he uses the Chopter coll of K4HU in thot 

copocity. K4HU you moy recoll, wos held by Horry Mills 

(SK), our first Chopter President. 

Thot's it for the first quorter of 2009.|f you're in the 

oreo, stop by ond breok breod with us ot one of our 

monthly meeting ....first Wednesdoy of eoch month 

(excepi December) ot the "Golden Corrol" resiouront, 

Hwy US64E in Hendersonville. We gother obout I I :,l5 

ond our speoker generolly gets the floor ot noon ofter o 

very short business meeting. 

Duke, W4DK 

Chqpter 85, Ark-lq-Iex (LA) 

We ore sod to report the possing of our deor friend ond 

ACWA member Bud Ports, WSAJS. Bud wos o flight 

instructor in the U.S. Army Air Corps ond flew os o commerciol 

pilot ofter dischorge from the service. Along with 

his lote wife Dottie, he owned ond operoted Port's 

Electronics, which for mony yeors wos o moior supplier of 

omoteur rodio equipment in Northwest Louisiono. He wos 

q member of the Al Operotor Club ond o greot CW 

mon. We will miss him deorly. 

Chopter 85 received donotions of equipment from the 

Curater Ce^tury Wrreless Assocration 

irtrp 

fomilies of Bud Poris, WSAJS-SK ond Ernie Brown ,WSFYZ- 

SK. The club is currently deciding disposirion of the equip- 

ment. The equipment will be donoted ond used to the best 

odvontoge of omoteur rodio in the locol oreo. 

Two members will receive owords ot our next scheduled 

meeting. Jim Howord, K5TC will receive o 5Oth 

Anniversory Aword. Our President Roger Ley,WASPZL 

will receive The QCWA Century Club Aword. 

Congrotulotions to Jim ond Rogerll 

We ore hoppy to hove Dove Dovis, W5WRG os the 

newest member of our Chopter. Dove wos first licensed in 

the summer of 1952 os WN5WRG. He is o life member 

of QCWA. Dove ond his wife Retto (WBSHXD) live in 

Shreveport. Welcome to Chopter 85 Dovell 

Becouse of the closure of the Luby's Cofeterio, the club 

hos chonged its Thursdoy luncheon meeting ploce. Club 

members now gother qt Dorrell's Restouront on Airline 

Drive in Bossier City ot opproximotely 1 1 AM. All members 

ond non-members ore invited. 

tohn Steworl, AASKV Seuetary fireasurer 

Chopter 89, South Corolino (SC) 

The regulor Februory meeting wos held Soturdoy the 28th 

2OO9, ot Ryon's Steok House in Columbio, SC. 

Attendonce wos sporse due to the terrible winter weother 

we were enioying. 

President, Bryce Myers, K4LXF, brought us up to dote 

on the H.E.A.R.T.S. progrom with on in depth study of the 

equipment ond operotions in ond oround the Chorleston 

oreo. 

I gove o short report on our trip io the Convention in 

Virginio Beoch in Ociober. My wife ond I enioyed the trip 

bock ond our detour down the outer bonks wos porticulor- 

Iy enioyoble. Nogs Heod, the Ferry Rides, ond the gourmet 

Seofood wos recolled qnd I would encouroge qnyone 

Mae C. Mott, Ralph's XYL on the left and Chris Johnson, N4WL, on the right. 

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GTCWA 2OOg Cruise Gonvcrntion 

October 24 - 31 , 2OOg 

Fort Lauderdale, FL; San Juan, Puerto Rico; & St Thomas, USVI 

Deta i ls at U RL: http ://wwwqcwa. org/2009.conventi o n ; pdf 

ur Cruise Convention will begin in Fort Lauderdale, Florida as we 

board Holland America's brand new ship the Eurodam on 

Saturday, October 24, 2009. As the cabins, meeting rooms, entertainment, 

food and most non-alcoholic beverages are included, there is 

no need for a registration fee. 

Our first full day, Sunday will be at sea, where you may operate any of the HF stations that ICOM Radio of 

American and Comet Antenna will be providing for your use. We hope to have a weather balloon long wire 

antenna floating above the rear of the ship - weather permitting. I do not know what contacts that will provide 

us, but it should make for some very nice picture opportunities. The HF stations will be operational 24/7 if there is 

a desire from our travelers. We will also offer a slate of Ham Forums for your enjoyment on this day and the 

other sea day, Thursday. 

With the very favorable exchange rate of the Canadian Dollar and Euro to the American Dollar at this 

time; it provides, I believe, an excellent opportunity to use this convention as a family vacation. You 

can enjoy the Ham aspects of the cruise while non-Ham family and friends enjoy all the amenities provided by 

Holland America. Your non-Ham traveling companions will hardly notice you slipping away to operate Caribbean 

Maritime Mobile and be the pile up, instead of trying to bust into it. 

On Monday we'll enjoy a relaxing 8-hour visit to Grant Turk for a little Scuba Diving, Horseback Beach Riding, 

Swimming, Dune Buggy Safari, or float dreamily over vibrant coral reefs. 

Tuesday will put us in San Juan, PR from 10 AM to 1 1 PM to visit the old forts, El Yunque Rain Forest, Old San 

Juan Historical Walking Tour and see the Arecibo Observatory - the world largest Radio Telescope. The 

Observatory is normally closed on Tuesday, however if there is interest from our group, I can make special 

arrangements to have the facility opened for a private tour and take care of the transportation. lt is a trip worth 

taking if you can. 

Wednesday has us in St Thomas, from 8 AM to 5 PM, a most wonderful place to shop - duty free seven-weeks 

before Christmas. Swim, snorkel and feed the fish in the crystal-clear Caribbean water and shop until you drop. 

St Thomas is the place for that. 

For clarification on any of the above information and greater details on the cruise itself - Cabin selection, Air 

Transportation, travel insurance, and radio gear to bring along, please contact me by email at: wa9jmo@wi.net; 

bytelephoneat262-639-7327, and/or U.S. Postal regular mail to: Larry McCalvy, WA9JMO,5400 Six Mile Road, 

Racine, Wl 53402-9741. 

lf you have not been on a cruise before, an adventure of a lifetime awaits you; if you are a cruiser, you know 

what I mean. 

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From left, Bill Horton, W4DDK; Jim Hill, W5A0E Seclfres; and Grover Gaskins 

w4GZ0. 

to sign on the the Convention oboord the cruise ship loter 

this yeor in October. lts going to be o reol fun trip. 

Ralfi Mott, N4RM 

Chopter 91, Vic Clqrk (VA) 

Stories ond photos from oll of our Chopter's octivities ore 

found on our website: http:/ /www.qcwo-91 .org/ , on 

eosyto-remember olios for thot website's reol lnternet 

oddress or universol resource locotor (URL). Whot follows 

ore iust brief sketches. 

Jonuory: Feoiured speoker Bruce Corpenter, W3YW, 

tolked on "Bonding ond Grounding for the Amoteur 

Stotion." Bonding ensures thot metol things which should 

remoin ot the some potentiol for sofety's soke do so under 

oll conditions, while grounding provides on omple currentcorrying 

poth from your bonded things to o grounding 

electrode neorby thot hos been driven for into the ground. 

A list of "best proctices" con be found in the story on our 

website. 

Februory: We ogoin toured the Rodio History Museum 

in Bowie, Morylond. As our lost visit wos in 2002, this 

time qround we sow some new exhibits, including o 

recently-ocquired Collins I KW tronsmitter modified for 

,l60 meter operotion. Docents Tony Young ond Michoel 

Beoghen were our hosts. 

The mqin port of the Museum is locoted in o house 

built in ,l9,l6, while its collection of vintoge omoteur rodio 

geor is now locoted in o cinder-block building neorby. You 

con see some of whot we sow by going to 

http ://web. me.com,/rrucker/cho pter9 1 

-photos-2009/ 

ln the photo (token by Fronk Hoynes, W4NUA, using 

his new comero) ore Phil Poullin, W4PXP; Steve Floyd, 

W4YHD; Lydio ond Mike Huhn, K3IEZ; ond Dick Rucker, 

KM4ML. 

Phil Paullin, W4PXP; Steve Floyd, W4YHD; Lydia and Mike Huhn, K3TEZ; aml Dick 

Bucker, KM4ML, at the Radio History Museum. 

Jim Veatch, WMEUJ, & his TAK-40. 

Morch: Jim Veoich, WA2EUJ, one of the two winners 

of the ARRL's first HomeBrew Chollenge compeiition, wos 

our feotured speoker. Jim told us obout the iterotive design 

process he used to creote his "TAK-40," on innovotive, 

microprocessor-controlled, QRP rig for CW ond SSB operotion 

on 40 meters. As required by the lerms of ARRL's 

chollenge, he built it for iust under $50 in reodily-ovoiloble 

ports, plus o few items from his iunk box. 

Since his orticle on how others cqn build their own 

TAK-4Os wos published in the Moy 2008 issue of QSI o 

lot of interest hos been generoted. There's o lorge group 

now on Yohool dedicoted to building them. Go to: 

http: / / gr oups.yo hoo. com/g rou p/ARRLH BC/ 

"HBCU is short for "HomeBrew Chollenge." 

Thqt's Jim in the phoio holding the version of the TAK- 

40 described in the Moy 2008 issue of aST. A loter version 

is pictured on our website. 

Dkk Rucker, KM4ML (SK) 

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Chqpter 94, Albuquerque (NM) 

Chopter 94 met Soturdoy, Morch 14, ot JB's Restquront 

for our first 2009 meeting. We hod on excellent turnout 

thoi moy be due in port to the foct thqt we hod owords 

for neorly holf of our members. Accomponying snopshots 

show the recipients with their owords. They ore: Emil 

Komorek, W5OQR, 70 yeors; Jock Sprogue, K4AK, 65 

yeors; Chuck Stonion, WSLBU, 60 yeors; Jesse Wright, 

WSADW, 60 yeors; Don Grob, K5BlS, 55 yeors; Roy 

Hill, KB5SF, 55 yeors; Corol Wogemon, WST|K, 55 

yeors; Bill Wogemon, K5MAI 55 yeors. Collectively 

they represenI4T5 yeors of "hom" octivity. Tolk obout 

QRLI 

After the opplouse foded owoy o drowing wos held 

for o number of door prizes generously donoted by Roy 

Hill, KB5SF, ond President Robbie Hill, KC5FT. Chopter 94 

recently mode o donotion to the QCWA Scholorship Fund. 

This is the second such donotion our Chopter hos in the 

memory of this writer. We hod o short discussion obout 

the Fund ond how ond by whom it is odministered. There 

K4AK, WSQDW and KSBIS receiving their Awards' 

W50QR, WSTIK and KSMAT receiving their Awards. 

Quarler Century Wireless Associatlon 

KBSSF and WSLBU with their Awards. 

f; 

p*lt 't, 

ore mony Amoteur Rodio Clubs in ond qround the 

Woshington, D. C. oreo who volunteer their time ond 

effort to mqke the Scholorship Plon work. lt is o greot tribute 

to oll of these "omoteurs". 

Our progrom speoker for ihe meeting wos Dovid 

Robbins, on odministrotor with electric supplier Public 

Service Compony of New Mexico (PNM), who ron for 

ond wos elected o member of the Albuquerque Public 

School (APS) Boord. The APS system is one of the lorger 

school systems in the United Stotes ond gets much public 

exposure, both pro ond con. Dovid gove some insight into 

APS funding ond the rotionole behlnd it. So, Dovid's presentotion 

wos both interesting ond very enlightening. 

Following thot progrom, o motion wos mode ond 

opproved to odiourn the meeting. 

Chuck Stonton, W 5LBU, Seuetary /freasurer 

Chopter I 08, Beover Stote (OR) 

We hod on extro speciol meeting ihis quorter. Among 

other items we hod o super duper tolk on omoieur rodio 

digitol modes by one of our members, Ron, NZHD, ond 

we gove o SO-Yeor ACWA Certificote to two of our distinguished 

members, Del, WZZQN; ond Peie, K7YTM. 

Ron hos been using digitol modes olmost since the 

inception ond is trying for his Work All Counties (WAC) 

oword. He is coming close. All digitol modes discussed 

included AMTOR, PACTOR, PSK31, ond his fovorite JT65' 

This wos on outstonding presentotion. Thonk you Ron! 

Pete hos been ociive in omoteur rqdio for over 50 

yeors. He more then deserves this Aword since he octive 

in RACES, ARES ond ACWA. Congrotulotions to Pete. 

We ore looking forword to our nexi meeting. We will 

be visiting the Evergreen Aviotion Museum, home of the 

Spruce Goose. They hove o new Spoce Museum which

Pete Wehet; K7Y\M, receiving his 10-Year Certificate from our President, Roger, 

W7ruT, 

houses, omong other spoce items, o reol Titon missile. 

Lunch will be served right on the Museum floor overlooking 

oll the WWll ond experimentol oircroft, ond then will 

begin o powerful docent tour full of history snd technology. 

There hos been o greot deol of enthusiosm for this 

meeting ond I hope to see oll of you there. 

Howard Honig WB7O1L Secretoryfireosurer 

Choprer I I l, West Pqlm Beqch (FLl 

Greetings from the sunny Polm Beochesl Polm Beoch 

Chopter I I I held its regulor monthly luncheon meeting oi 

Perkins Restouront in West Pqlm Beoch on Morch 3l , 

2009. There were '14 members & guests on hond for 

good food & fellowship. We welcomed new member 

Norm Alexonder, W4QN, & his XYL, Corol, to the group. 

President, Hugh Connolly, AG4HC, onnounced the upcoming 

cruise Convention in October out of Ft. Louderdole. 

Sodly, two of our members become SKs. Julion Fink, 

KC2QJ, & longtime Chopter member, Stonley 

Wylyczenko, K4HXB. A moment of silence wos held in 

their memory led by Secretory, Jeff Beols, WA4AW. Jeff 

onnounced upcoming hom rodio club octivities in our 

oreo. Chopter Officers for 2009 ore Hugh Connolly, 

AG4HC, President; Tom Thompson, W2TMT, Vice 

President; & Jeff Beols, WA4AW Secretory/Treosurer. 

Should you find yourself in our port of the world on the 

lost Tuesdoy of the month, pleose ioin us ot Perkins on 

Militory Troil in West Polm Beoch ot I l:30 AM. 

tefl Beals WA4AW Seuetory/Treasurer 

Chopter I I2, Yonkee (Rl) 

aCWA Chopter I l2 held their foll meeting ot White's of 

Westport, MA, on October 1 8, 2008 with l5 members 

ond guest present. 

Skip, WB6WA, presented o review of o forum held ot 

the 2008 aCWA Notionol Convention ond videos thot 

were token ot the Convention. 

QCWA Chopter I 12 held their Holidoy Porty ot the 

Choteou Restouront in Norton, MA, on December 6, 

2008. Skip, WB6WA; ond Horry, Wl DGD, opened the 

meeting. Chuck, Kl lGD, aCWA Generol Monoger 

oddressed the group regording ACWA membership. 

After the luncheon, WB6WA rqn the Yonkee Swop ond 

the gift exchonge for the guys ond the gols. Our next 

meeting is plonned for Februory 28,2008 ot O'Connor's 

Restouront in Worcesier, MA. 

The Yonkee Chopter 1 12 held their winter meeting ot 

O'Connor's Restouront, Worcester, MA on Februory 28, 

2009 with l9 members ond guests present. Skip, 

WB6WA, opened the meeting with introductions. 

Pioneer ond Nutmeg chopters ioined us for our meeting. 

Rob Mocedo, WDICY ARES Skyworn Coordinotor gove 

o power point presentotion ond videos of storms during 

2007-2008. 

Our next meeting is plonned for April 18,2009, ot 

the Choteou Restouront, Norton MA. This will be 

our Annuol Meeting. 

tanice Lenlz, K4llK, Seoetary 

Chopter I I5, TAG (fN) 

The Chottonoogo Chopter I I 5 met Februory 27, 2009, 

ot Wolly's Restouront in Eost Ridge ot l2 Noon. A smoll 

but very energetic group discussed woys of increosing our 

membership, ond whot we wonted for the rest of the 

yeor. The Chopter will hove three more meetings in 2009. 

Two of them will be ot Noon ond one ot 6 PM. The dotes 

ore Moy 29 ot 12 Noon, August 7 ot 6 PM, (this is for 

the fomily) ond November 6, ot l2 Noon. All these meetings 

will be ot Wolly's Restouront. 

There wos o short discussion obout hoving progroms 

or not. No conclusion wos reoched on the Noon meetings, 

but the August meeting will hove o progrom. Our 

Chopter hos been hoving only one meeting o yeor ond 

hos suffered in membership becouse of this. When we 

were first chorted we hod quorterly meetings ond thot 

seemed to work out well, but we were oll young ond foolish 

bock then. 

Charlie Curle, AD4t, Secretory /Treosurer 

Chqpter I19, fidewqter (VA) 

The first Quorier of Chopter I l9's Thirtieth Anniversory 

Yeor come off very well. The Chopter initioted o 30th 

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Anniversory Membership Drive with the explicitly stoted 

gool of bringing in 30 new Chopter I l9 members during 

this onniversory yeor. At the end of the first quorter we 

hove lumped iust post the One'Third mork with I I new 

members to dote. From here on out the progress moy be o 

bit slower, but with oppropriote odvertising (Thonk You, 

Director, Joon, VE3ZC - greot ideo, thonks for shoring) 

we hope to inspire the rother lorge contingent of those 

Iocol omoteur rodio operotors who ore eligible for QCWA 

membership to ioin wiih us. President, Ron, WBUL; Vice- 

President, Al, WA4TCJ; ond Treosurer, Borry, KSV|P, hove 

oll ioined with the Chopter Secretory, Vic, W4VIC, to 

'shoke the bushes.' Support from other locol Clubs, who 

hove provided spoce in their publicotions for our recruiiing 

ods, should help to move us toword our gool. Pleose ioin 

us in exiending congrotulotions to our new First Quorter 

members (in order of sign-on): Chris Honslits, W4VX; John 

Reiser, WA4L (olso o member of QCWA Chopter 91); 

John Roberts, WB4AXI Rich Ferguson, N2XQM; Molvern 

Borrow, K4WHN; Lewis Hudgins, W4LMH; Stever Botton, 

W4XQ; Joon Johnson, K4JU (olso o member of QCWA 

Chopter 91); Sol Yorks, WD4NZX (ACWA opplicotion 

pending); Tolley George, W4TVG; ond Don Lynch, 

WAZYT. How exciting to hove these folks ioin in the good 

times ot Chopter I 19. 

Also oiding in the recruitment of new members is the 

plon for Speciol Activities during the Anniversory Yeor. 

Our first such scheduled speciol event wos o Members 

ond Friends tour of the Christion Broodcosting Network 

(CBN) studio ond production focilities. The CBN operotion 

hos been widely held to be omong the finest such focilities 

extont. A speciol odded ottroction during this event wos 

the inclusion of o guided tour through the Hompton Roods 

Teleport - the sotellite eorth stotion focilities ot CBN. An 

CBN Satetlite communications Facility. This is a photo ol several satellite dishes 

used at the facility. 

Quarter Century Wireless Association 

Marshall Nute, Manager CBN Satellite Communications Facility, surrounded by 

Chapter 119 Members. 

expertly guided tour by Mr. Morsholl Nute, the Monoger 

ot the CBN Sotellite Communicotion fociliry whom we discovered 

to be none other thon KAICFB o locol omoteur 

rodio operotor flying somewhot under our rodor, wos 

enthusiosticolly received by 24 members ond friends subsequent 

to our Morch meeting. 

Chopter I l9 is sponsoring on IOTA islond octivqtion 

this summer, putting Tongier lslond, NA-083 on the oir 

during the lost weekend of July. This period coincides with 

the IOTA Contest ond we hope to enter thot contest in the 

lslond DXpedition cotegory. Plons for this octivity ore 

under woy ond we'll be telling you more oboui this exciting 

eveni in our next Chopter Report. 

Additionol plons for this onniversory yeor include o 

ioint excursion (with aCWA Chopter 9,l, Vic Clork (VA) to 

the Notionol Rodio Astronomy Observotory ot Greenbonk, 

WV. We ore olso plonning o big onniversory porty to be 

held loter this Foll. Whot on exciting yeor for Chopter 

I t9l 

I close this Chopter Report with the sod news of the 

possing of o good friend ond OCWA member, Jock Moin, 

W4YCZ, Member # 21769. Jock wos o prominent member 

o[ Chopter I l9 ond olso of the USS Wisconsin (BB- 

64) Rodio Club. 

Vk Culver, W4VIC Secrelary 

Chopter l2O, GICWW 

Our onnuol ond only membership meeting of the yeor will 

toke ploce on boord Hollond Americo's Eurodom during 

the QCWA 2OO9 Cruise Conveniion from 24 to 3l 

Ociober 2009. The ship will deport from ond orrive bock 

in Fort Louderdqle, FL. I will be toking our QCWW bonner 

ond hope to get pictures of our members ot the severol 

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UfirqruUfi reports 

HF stotions thot will be in operotion during most of our 

week long odventure. I will insert severol in the following 

two QCWA Journols ond put the rest on our 

ACWA/ACWW web site. Thonks to our web moster, 

Bob Roske, NOUF, eoch Chopter hos o web site occessible 

vio the QCWA home poge ot www.qcwo.org or 

directly vio http://www/qsl.net/qcwo1 20 . 

I om still trying to updote our Chopter records. I om 

looking for oll our current members, especiolly those thot 

coll Chopter ,l20 their home Chopter, ond onyone wishing 

to ioin our merry bond. As o virtuol Chopter, our 

members ore scottered ocross the world, there ore no 

Chopter dues ond our one meeting o yeor is olwoys in o 

most interesting ploce. I hope to dive into my picture 

orchives ond bring o few from eoch of our post meeting 

for plocemeni on our web poge. When I hove monoged 

to do so, l'll let everyone know vio our Chopter Report. 

As I sit here typing this report, Old Mon Winter hos 

delivered on eorly spring present - 2.8 inches of wet, 

heovy, Wisconsin snow. Why om I not living in Tucson, 

Arizono? 

Lony McColvy, WAqlMO, Secrelory fireasurer 

Chopter I26, Piedmont (NC) 

The Piedmont Chopter #126 held its regulor meeting on 

Soturdoy, Morch 21, 2009 ot McColl's Restouront, 

Cloyton, NC. There were 27 members ond guests present. 

The following Boord members were present: Chuck, 

K4HF; Kent, K4MK; ond Chorlie, WB4DCM. Issues discussed 

by the Boord included the next Chopter 126 meeting 

ot the Clqssic Restouront in Denton, NC ond presentotion 

by John Scott, KBYC, on Homcop, Freewore bosed 

on propogotion Softwore used by the Voice of Americo 

for signol destinotion plonning. The Boord discussed possible 

locotions ond progroms for future meetings, ond the 

Treosurer's Report. 

Following blessing, lunch ond introductions, President 

Chuck, K4HF, onnounced thot our newest Chopter member 

wos Jerry Hoegele, KD2NF, of Roleigh, NC. The 

newest Life Member of the Chopter is Leon Winter, WX6l 

of Woxhow, NC. WB4DCM gove us the I st quorter 

Chopter net report received from W4DGJ. George 

McBride, W4DGJ, wos presented his Z5th-Yeor 

Anniversory Ploque ofter recently celebroiing his 9'lst 

birthdoy. Keni, K4MK, then introduced our speoker, Moc, 

WaBU of Hillsborough, NC. Moc's progrom wqs on 

wortime lEDs ond rodio conirolled mechonisms thot control 

them ond the electronic countermeosures thot ore 

being used to defeot them. lnsurgents, terrorists, criminols, 

ond onti-government groups use lEDs. This is o world wide 

problem. While our cosuolties ore going down in lroq, 

Chapter 126 March 2009 Meeting at Mc0all's Bestaurant, in Clayton, NC, 

Chapter 126 ofiicers Charlie, WB4DCM; Kent, K4MK; and George, W4DGJ; receiving 

his 75-Year plaque, and Chuck, K4HF. 

they ore going up in Afghoniston. The components for 

lEDs ore reodily ovoiloble ond the informotion is on the 

internet. There ore mony items thot con be used to remotely 

set off on lED. For exomple: remote keys for outos; 

poger systems; wireless door bells; GMRS rodios; 

Kenwood ond ICOM H/Ts; goroge door openers ond 

cordless phones ore iust some the items thot ore reodily 

ovoiloble ond pressed into service. N4HHH brought olong 

Lt. Col. Brod Bornhort of Fort Brogg who hod on interest in 

our Progrom. 

Hoving the QCWA - icon on our locol rodio club website 

sending folks to our Chopter I26 locol site hos been 

well received ond occounted for the ottendonce of severol 

guests ot our chopter meetings. We will olso hove o booth 

ot our onnuql rodio clubs homfest. Chopters I '19 ond '126 

will stoff the booth. 

Guest Mory Coudle won the 2009 Possport to World 

Rodio book qnd Dorrel Worley, KA4MSY won the 50/50 

drowing. Thonks to MoryJo, K4MJL, who provided the 

odmin help for our meetings.2009 dues ore due onytime 

to WB4DCM. Remember our Soturdoy morning net. 

Meeting odiourned ot 2:00 PM 

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Chuck Litilewood, K4HF President 

Chopter 134, Pine Tree (ME) 

The QCWA Pine Tree Chopter '134, met ot the Moine 

Stote ARRL Convention (oko, the "Andy" Homfest) ot the 

Romodo lnn, Lewiston, Moine, on Soturdoy Morch 28, 

2009. The meeting wos opened ot opproximotely 1 'l :00 

AM by President, Bruce Rondoll, WIZE. There were l8 

members ond severol guests present. 

The Chopter welcomes two new members, Joe Blinick, 

KlJB; ond Skip Swenson, WB6WA. 

Letters from Kl IGD ond W4YE ocknowledging the 

Chopter's donotion of $ I 00 to the QCWA Memoriol 

Scholorship Fund were reod to the meeiing. 

The meeting observed o moment of silence to reflect 

on the possing of four recent Sileni Keys. We ore soddened 

by the loss of Wl BCA, W2NYU, NWI A, ond 

Wl KUL. lt wos noted thoi W2NYU hod o long ond distinguished 

coreer ot NBC during which he won on EMMY 

Aword. 

All rodio omoteurs ore reminded thot if ihey mode contocts 

with ten different Moine stotions during the period of 

August 1,2007 through August 3'1, 2008, they ore eligible 

for the Moine Shipbuilding Certificote issued by the 

Chopter. For detoils contoct AA4AK. 

aCWA Gold Certificotes were presented to the following 

members of the Chopter: Wl AO (licensed for 50 

yeors ond continuously licensed for 5O yeors); Kl GUP (50 

yeors); W3ZD (55 yeors); ond Wl SCM (60 yeors). 

(Photos courtesy of Michele Briggs, KCTLIF, q friend of the 

Chopter) A 5O-Yeor Certificote for Wl HOW will be presented 

ot o fuiure meeting. A 70-Yeor Certificote for 

Wl NV (who is unoble to trovel) will be presented to him 

ot o suitoble time. 

A7l-Yeor ploque hos been prepored for Dick 

Boldwin, Wl RU, retired Generol Monoger of ARRL ond 

President Emeritus of IARU. ln his role in WARC 79,Dick 

wos lorgely responsible for the ollocotion of the 30, I 7, 

ond I2 meter bonds to omoteur rodio. Dick wos unoble to 

qttend the Morch meeting, but hos indicoted thot he 

expects io be ot the June meeting; he will be oworded his 

ploque ot the June meeting. We invite All QCWA members 

who ore in Moine ot the time to come to the June 6 

meeting ond congrotulqte Dick on his mony contributions 

during his 75 yeors in hom rodio. 

WB6WA hos invited members of the Chopter to porticipote 

in the QCWA Picnic on July 1 1 ot the New 

Englond Wireless ond Steom Museum in Eost Greenwich 

Rt. 

All ACWA members ore reminded thot the Pine Cone 

Net is octive, ond meets regulorly eoch Sundoy ot 1400 

ET on 3942 kHz, September through Moy' 

Quarter Century W reless Assoc ation 

ffHAffirep*r:t$ 

Pine Tree Chapter 134 Golel Certificate winners, lefi to right: Joseph Kozak, 

WlA0, 50 years; Jerry Burns, KIGUE 50 years; Norman l'Heureux, WlSCM,60 

years; and Al Corderman, W3ZD,55 years. 

Our next meeting will be immediotely ofter the Hermon 

Homfest June 6, 2OO9. The meeting will be held ot the 

Hoppy Chino Restouront on Stillwoter Rood in Bongor. 

W3ZD will give o presentotion oboui his fother (W3ZD- 

SK, o pioneer in hom rodio from 19121 ol theJune meet- 

ing. 

Stefien W. Kercel, AA4AK, Secretory 

Choprer l4l, Amqrillo (TX) 

Chopter l4l in Amorillo is o smoll group of homs thot 

enioy rubbing elbows once o month ond porticipoting in 

vorious octivities. Most of us ore olso members of the 

Ponhondle Amoteur Rodio Club in Amorillo. The QCWA 

Chopter tends to be o little more loid bock ond we chot 

with eoch other more ot meetings. We meet ot Z p.m. 

(coming eorlier for the meol) on the 4th Thursdoy of eoch 

month (except November). 

At the meeting thot took ploce on Morch 26th, ot our 

new meeting ploce, Broum's on South Grond Street, obout 

o block south of 1H40, we hod o group of 8 thot included 

Brod Miskimen, N5LUL; Jerry Von Note, WB2UZT; Honno 

Von Note, WA2HUW; Scott McDowell, N5SM; Jim 

Musgrove, KSBZH; Corol Musgrove, WDSDCZ; Chip 

Andrews, N5LTZ (visitor); ond Connor Costonedo (visitor). 

Brod brought o complete pocket stotion ond demonstroted 

o piece of softwore he found thot provides some nice 

enhoncements to pocket operotion. 

The Ponhondle Amoteur Rodio Club is hoving their 9th 

onnuol Picnic/Swopfest in Moy ond thonks to President 

Brod Miskimen, NSLUL, our group plons to hove o speciol 

event stotion there signing the coll W5l. A discussion took 

ploce obout the purchose of QSL cords for the event. 

Hqnno plons to moke QCWA posters for the picnic. 

At the Ponhondle Club's Field Doy event, Chopter 141 

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Jerry, WB2UZT; and Hanna Van Note, WA2HUW listening as a point is being 

made. 

Jim Musgrove, KSBZH; Scott McDowell, NSSM; and Brad Miskinen, N5LUL. N,te 

the glassed-in walls in the corner of Braum's dining area that form a private 

meeting room (a nice place for cluh meetings), 

will hove o disploy of omoteur rodio equipment thot covers 

well over fifty yeors thot includes homebrewed geor 

ond hom rodio kits which is being orgonized by Don 

McCobe, WASYYE. 

This September Chopter 141 will porticipote in the 

"Route 66 on the Air" Speciol Eveni os we hove done for 

severol yeors ensuring thot Amorillo remoins on thoi Route 

66 mop. 

Carcl Musgrove, WDSDCZ, Secretory 

Chopter I54, Leo Meyerson, Greoter Polm 

Springs (CA) 

With profound sodness, we must report Don Doughty, 

W6EEN, died peocefully Fridoy, Jonuory 16,2009. For 

mony yeors Don wos o "shoker ond mover" of the hom 

community here in the Coochello Volley. He is better 

known internotionolly for his oword winning contesi octivities 

ond for the OCWA Donold ond Phyllis Doughty 

Fomily Scholorship. Moy he Rest ln Peoce. 

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Brad's packet station (computer, TNC, VHF transceiver with antenna, battery 

power pack) with Dan Mcaabe, WASYYE, in background, 

Our Februory luncheon wos followed by o field trip to 

the Polm Springs Air Museum. Twenty-two members ond 

guests enioyed seeing ond heoring obout these flyoble historic 

oircroft. Our Chopter member, Dick Clork, K6GLB, 

wos the tour guide. For one ond one holf hours he shored 

his knowledge ond enthusiqsm for the greot oircroft of 

WWll. Our thonks to Dick. 

Celebrotion of Leo Meyerson's 98th birthdoy wos o 

resounding success! Forty members of the locol hom community 

responded to Leo's invitotion. After enioying chicken 

with the usuol trimmings, Leo blew out the condles {two) 

ond wos stortled when, in response to his eorlier request, 

o noked blonde jumped out of his cokel We promised, ot 

his l00th celebrotion, there would be o reol one. 

ln oddition to the blonde, there were severol citotions 

from Officers of the Notionol aCWA Orgonizotion. The 

winners of o contesi, devised by Abigoil, obout Leo's hisiory 

were oworded the onnuol Abigoil Cosino Certificote: o 

$'t.00 bill! 

The omoteur rodio community is indeed privileged to 

hove hod Leo with us for so mony yeors. 

Gene Pentecost, W41MT, Presidenl 

Chopter 160 held their onnuol picnic ond evening dinner 

ot Mesquite Nevodo on April 7, 2009, ogoin os in the 

post few yeqrs. 

Horvey ZILM, ABTUT; ond Michoel ) PEIZ, WZDNI, 

were presented Certificotes of 50 yeors of service to 

Amoteur Rodio. Certificotes for 55 yeors went to Koy Bills, 

KTCKF; Moxine Pinrod, K4KUU; ond Phil Bullock, KZPB. 

Scotties Dining room, locoted ot ihe Beoutiful Folcon 

Ridge Hotel, wos the scene of the evening dinner ond gen- 

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Leo greets every guest. 

Leo gets his birthday wish! 

erol meeting. This yeor's meet wos very successful for oll 

the members ond guests of Utoh Chopter ,l60 of aCWA. 

A big thonks to Chorlie Lum Kee, KH6AB for toking core 

of these orrongements. 

Other octivities of the Chopter included the ARRL 

Rocky Mountoin Section Convention, July 2008 ot Ruby's 

lnn on the edge of Bryce Conyon Notionol Pqrk in Utoh. 

A booth within the moin Vendor oreo wqs set up ond 

mony homs stopped by. One new member wos signed up 

ond o good time wos hod by those who ottended. 

Ongoing Chopter proiects include collecting outobiogrophies 

of members for Chopter history. 

Dave Roah, W7DKR, President 

Chopter I62, Southeqst Wisconsin (WS) 

We ore one week from our spring OCWA QSO porty, os 

I write this orticle; ond os the 2009 Convention host, 

Ouare' Cent --rqy Wire ess Assoc,atton 

*#p,er€$.,",.,r; 

0n the left, Dave Raah, W7DKR, Prcsident, and Past President, Lee Horn, K7NKH, 

staff the booth at ABBL Convention. 

The Salt Lake bunch: ln 0ctober 2008, a dinner lor those who live in and around 

Salt Lake City. Those who met together were (L to R), Ron Lewis, NTBU; Rick 

Seyboldt, K70WZ; & Phil Bullock, K7PB. Maryellen Vaughan, WCKD, Chapter 

Sec reta ry, a I so atten de d, 

Chopter 162 will operote in it os W2MM. We hope to be 

octive on most of the Hom bonds using SSB, CW ond 

Digitol. With good bond conditions ond o greot turnout of 

our QCWA membership, there should be some nice scores 

ond o lot more QCWA octivities then normol. lt seems like 

porticipotion hos fqllen off in recent yeors. Perhops when 

conditions improve, more Homs will ioin in on the QSO 

porty. 

During the some weekend mony of us will be enioying 

the onnuol SuperFest thot Amoteur Electronic Supply (AES) 

hosts in Milwoukee. Mony of better known commerciol 

rodio ond equipment vendors send representotives ond 

obout 45 rodio clubs ioin in for the two-doy event. lt is 

reolly o wonderful indoor odventure with some very interesting 

rodio forums. 

Our Awords Committees hove been tosked with the 

selection of the 2009 Olin Fox, K9AKG Recognition of 

Excellence Awordee, ond with the creotion of the Robert

flS.p ':ts 

Jensen, WOWLN, Lifetime Achievement Aword - nominees 

for thot recognition. We ore olso looking to oword 

our onnuol Spencer Clope, W9LDH, $500 scholorship to 

o college Hom thot lives in the some community one our 

members resides in. I will be osking ot eoch of our upcoming 

functions for nominoiions - written nominotions. There 

ore o lot of deserving individuols for these recognitions. 

Pleose ossist the Committees by providing them with your 

written recommendotions. 

As you reod this report, Chopter 162 is only doys 

owoy for our onnuol Field Doy odventure. We will ogoin 

operote QRP Bottery. A successful outing for our group is 

to set up, moke ot leost one volid contoct; ond to hove 

fun. 

Chopter 162 is busy tweoking its plons for the 2009 

cruise Convention ond the on-boord octivities the trovelers 

will enioy during the week-long event. We will be finolizing 

the Hom Rodio shore excursions on St Thomos ond 

Son Juon ond trying to come up with o workoble plon for 

the HF stotions setups, logs ond operoting schedules. The 

lotter will be determined by the folks operoting ond if they 

wont to go 24/7 or not. The bond conditions ond the 

octivities on the oirwoves, will determine the number ond 

quolity of the contocts. We will enioy o most morvelous 

seo odventurel 

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Chopter 169 meeting presentotions for the quorter were: 

Video obout o tower instollotion on top of the Sutter 

Buttes; Video from the ARRL titled "Emergency 

Communicotions", o simulotion o[ o SET in the New 

Englond oreo; DX-pedition to St. Brondon lslond, 387C, 

ond Robin Alexonder, NX6Z, on his 'spy rodio set', 

AN/PRC-s. 

Service Awords were presented to: Armond Noble, 

N6WR, 50 yeors; Bill King, WZMCC, 60 yeors. 

Robin Alexonder, NX6Z, hos been helping in conducting 

our meetings, Corl Crump, WA6VLS, continues to be 

octive in our weekly net operotions, Bill Eoston, W6UYD, 

is doing o greot iob hondling our meeting roffles, Merion 

Henson, W6NKR, is quite octive in o bowling leogue, ond 

Don Longford, WA6VPJ, is busy hondling our oudio/visuol 

needs ond our E-moil communicotions. 

We meet on the second Wednesdoy of the month ot 

Denny's locoted ol7900 College Town Drive in 

Socromento. The Restouront is iust north of Highwoy 50 

ond on the west side of Howe Avenue. Gothering storts 

oround I 'l :00 om for o no-host lunch ond meetings stort 

oround l2 noon. We iry to finish by l:30 pm. YLs ore 

olwoys welcome. For further informotion, contoct our 

Secretory, Gory Stilwell, Kl6T ot (916) 961-6659. 

Gory St'ilwell, Kl6T, Secretary /Treasurer 

Chqpter 194, Howoii (Hl) 

On Feb l4th, Howoii Chopter ,l94 hod o luncheon meeting 

ot Coqui's Restouront in Hilo, Howoii. 

Photogrophs ore courtesy of t

60-Year Award presented to Bill King, W7MCC. L to R: Bobin Alexandei NX6Z; 

Bill King, WTMCC; and Jim Jolly, W6EW. 

"Spy Radio Set, AN/PBC-1, lwlilll". Discussion and demonstration by Rohin 

Alexandet; NXOZ. 

At the conclusion of the meeting o roffle wos conducted 

with KH6LC gornering most of the prizes. 

Corky, W60R5, Setretary 

Sodly I hove to report thot Bob Rickenbough, WBSKDL, is 

o Silent Key. Bob loved the ACWA qnd he will be deorly 

missed. 

Severol out-ofJown visitors mode ii o point to ioin us 


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for our luncheons. Croft Toylor, VE3CI ond his XYL, 

Elizobeth, spend the winter in southwest Florido. Jock 

Porsons, K3OTY ond his XYL, Ann, ore now full+ime 

Floridions. Upstote New Yorkers Mike Weber, WA2RZJ, 

ond his XYL, Donno, missed lunch but met me ot the 

Octogon \Vildlife Sonctuory where Mike operoted 

WSOWS right on site. Lorry McColvy, WA9JMO, who is 

o QCWA Director, wos oble to ioin us for lunch while 

vocotioning in the Florido sunshine. 

Stello Gurko, WB2FAU, heoded up o speciol event stotion 

for o whole week in Februory ot the Edison Ford 

estotes in downtown Fort Myers. Stello operoted W4X 

ond mode over o thousond contocts during the week long 

celebrotion of Thomos Edison's birthdoy. 

It wos my distinct pleosure to oword Don Kilpotrick, 

WSLBY his 55th Anniversory Aword. Chopter 196 

Secretory Don Cole, WA2JNM, received his 50th 

Anniversory Aword. We sure hove q lot of experience in 

our Chopter. Congrotulotions gentlemenl 

I hove been working with Mott Bush, KA9RlX, ond 

Bill Smith, WA4ZD, for severol months ond the results 

L-fr Clarence Smith, AHTA; Corky Kitk, W60S; Lloyd Cabral, KH6LC; Paul Lieh, 

KHOHME; Dean Manley, KH6B; and John Buck, KH7l. 

ore thot Chopter ,l96 hos o 2 meter repeoter on the oir. 

The coll sign of the repeoter is K4QCW ond the output 

frequency is 145.390 MHz. Progrom your rodios ond 

meet us on the oir. 

Iod Burib K38C, President 

Chqpter 2O3 Gill Crossley (PA) 

Chopter 203 is off to o greot new hom rodio yeor. Our 

first quorter octivities included our winter meeting on 

Jonuory 31. Everyone hod o greot luncheon ot o Stote 

College steqk house where we enioyed o privote room. 

Our guest speoker, Woody Brem, K3YV discussed ond 

demonsiroted on RF Direction Finder prolect ond the 

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Mike Webef WA2RZJ, operating at W80WS, on site at the 0ctagon Wildlite 

Sanctuary. 

WOLBY Iefi K3QC center; WA2JNM, right. W9LBY is Don Kilpatrick rcceiving 55 

Year Certfficate. WA2JNM is Don Cole receiving 10-Year Certificate. KSQC is Tad 

Burik, President of Chapter 196. 

Amoteur Rodio Direction Finding course he wos teoching 

through the locol school district. The meeting ended with 

the troditionol gob fest ond the drowing of the door prize, 

which is olwoys o free luncheon for the winner. 

Our Chopter 203 Sundoy night VHF net is going 

strong. The net meets ot B:30 PM Sundoys on ihe Stote 

College, PA, .l46.85 repeoter. We hove check-ins from oll 

over centrol Pennsylvonio due to the repeoter's regionol 

coveroge. Our net enioys reloxed protocol, ond everyone 

gets to moke their weekly comments. 

Our Chopter 203 website is looking good. Pleose visit 

us ot www.commedge.co m / nillony / /qcwo/. 

Thot is oll for this quorter. Visitors ore welcome ot our 

spring meeting on Moy 9 in Hollidoysburg, PA. Contoct 

k3yv@orrl.net for more informotion. 

Woody Brem, KSYV President 

Chqprer 206. Honolulq (Hl) 

Our supplied photogroph is o typicol aCWA Chopter 

Mike Weber, WA2BZJ, and his XYL Donna at the 0ctagon Wildlife Sanctuary, 

W80WS is the club call there. 

206 breokfost meeting. Members ond guests ore Willy 

Pordue, N6XD; Bill Kendqll, KH6OO; Jim Dovis, WH6Q; 

John Peters, Kl ER; Roy Thompson, KH6IEL; ond Dr. John 

Vorbou, KH6HAM. lnclude ACWA in your Howoii trip. 

Soon ofter the photo in the spring OCWA Journol wos 

token of Ted, KH6GI's, new tower bose; Ted discovered 

he hod on uncuroble form of bone Concer. Ted become o 

SK on Morch 4 before the spring issue wos received. 

lohn Peters, KIER, Secretary 

Chopter 2O9, Helvetio 

This yeor we hod o greot doy thonks io our President 

emeritus Dr. Mox C. de Henseler, HB9RS. Mox decided to 

donote his wonderful Hollicrofters collection to the Swiss 

Air Force Museum in Poyerne. September 22 wos the 

opening ceremony of the new Hollicrofters disploy in the 

museum. The Swiss Astronout, Cloude Nicollier, HB9CN, 

museum foundotion President, wos present ond soid o 

greot thonk you to Mox for his generous donotion represeniing 

o unique collection in Europe. This will help to 

keep in mind whot o wonderful iob our fothers did. As 

(Left) Max, HBSRS and Claude, HBOCN (right) with an impressive Halliuafters 

BC 610 Transmitter 

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Members of Chapter 206. 

speciol guests we could olso meei o representotive of the 

Swiss OFCOM os well os HB9.JOE, Andy, USKA ond 

IARU region I treosurer with his XYL HBgELF, Yvonne. This 

wos reolly o greot doy, thonk you very much Mox helping 

us to keep oll these equipments olive. 

Herherl Aeby, HB9B0U, Secretory 

Choprer 2I2, Mid'Ohio (OH) 

President, Froncis "Frilz" , WDBE, recently underwent heort 

surgery. Fritz is now home ond progressing nicely. He 

hopes to otiend fulure 21 2 meetings when he is oble. 

Fritz is olso the poster boy for weoring your seoi belt. He 

wos involved in o heod-on crosh in his truck on June 1 3th, 

2008, iusi o few feet from his drivewoy. He wos struck on 

his side of the rood by onother pickup truck. Although he 

hod to be cut out of his truck, he didn't suffer ony molor 

inluries in the crosh due to the foci he wos weoring his 

seot belt ond the sieering wheel oirbog deployed. 

Boh Coshdollsr, NR&U, Secrelary 

Our monthly meeiings ore on the 4th Tuesdoy ond Noon 

oi Corrow's Restouront, 4480 N. Blockstone in Fresno. All 

QCWA members ore welcome to ottend if they ore in ihe 

Fresno Colifornio qreo on our meeting doy. Our meetings 

ore very informql with on qveroge ottendonce of 20 mem- 

bers ond guests. Wa6CWA hod the third highest phone 

score in the 2008 OCWA Foll aSO Porty. Our Chopter is 

growing wnh 42 members now. WQ6CWA wos octive in 

the QCWA spring QSO PortY' 

Charles McConnell, W 6DPD, Seuetor y / Treasurer 


#xE&fffi- ?"sp*rts 

WS\M (center) receiving his QCWA 50th Yr Gold Certificate Continuous 

Licensing Award as well as his QCWA 50th Yr. Gold Anniversary of Licensing 

Award, Chapter 217 members, left to right are: WIGDE, Jules Deschenes; WglM, 

Dean Sever; W3GQJ, John Fleming, President Chapter 217; and W40E, Harolel 

Lloyd, Secretary/Treasurer, Chapter 217. 

Chopter 217, The Villqges (FL) 

Our monthly meeting is held on the 2nd Thursdoy of eoch 

Month @ 1030AM EDT ot The Verondo Cofe, Loke Sumter 

Londing Squore, The Villoges, FL. 

Poid Members: Six. Our membership is down by six 

from lost report. 

Awords: WBIM, Deon Sever, received his QCWA 

5Oth Yr. Gold Certificote Continuous Licensing Aword ond 

the QCWA 5Oth Yr. Gold Anniversory of Licensing 

Aword. Congrotulotions to Deonl The Aword wos given ot 

our monthly meeting ot The Verondo Cofe, Loke Sumter 

Londing, The Villoges, FL. The picture wos ioken by 

OCWA guest; KC4FE, Woyne Schieber. 

Harold Lloyd, W40l Secretary /lreasurer 

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The Four Bones 

The structure of an organization is made up of four kinds of bones. There are Wishbones. who spend all their time wishing 

somebody else would do something about this, or something about that. There are the Jawbones, who do all the talking, 

but very little of anything else. Next comes the Knucklebones, who knock everything that others are trying to do. Finally, 

there are the Backbones, who get under the load and do the work. What part of the organization's structure are 

you? lf you are a Wishbone, Jawbone, or Knucklebone, what kind of a Ham are you? Are you happy? 

Take a good look at the Backbones in your radio club. These people are not always the board members, 

but they certainly are the "doers" in the club. lcan well imagine that the Backbones also 

have happy family lives, because it seems that hard work and self-confidence seem to 

extend into family and working partnerships as well. What constantly amazes me is the 

number of Backbones who spend long hours representrng or working for the club. 

They seem to never tire making the Club's activities successful. 

We hear a lot about getting involved. Take it from one who knows, getting involved rs the best 

therapy there is for adjusting to the life of a Ham. You'll see a change for the better not only in 

yourself, but in your hobby and your club. You'll suddenly find people are friendlier, there is no spare 

time to wonder how to fill as there is work to do for each and everyone of us in the club. But, most 

important of all, you will suddenly realize what you are doing for others. What a beautiful example to set for your children. 

So why don't you take a personal inventory? lf you are honest with yourself and find you are a Wishbone, Jawbone or 

Knucklebone, there is no time like the present to make the change so you, too, can become a Backbone. The dedicated, 

hard working Backbones will welcome you joining them. Only in this way can the Club continue to serve amateur radio and 

the community. 

Reprinted from "QUA/HAMnews" March 7991 which is published bythe BluegrassAmateur Radio Society, lnc. Lexington, Kentucky. 

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The Retirement Years 

(continued from the winter 2008 lssue of the QCWA lournal) 

A Journalistic History of The Life and Times in Amateur Radio of George Hart, Wl NJM 

by George Hart, WI NJM 

I have already covered much of this in previous pages, but the 

end of an era in my amateur radio career occurred with the 

passing of my brothet Ed Hart, N4KB, formerly 3NF, W3NF. 

W9NF, W2ZVW K2FB, W5RE. Ed had been a chain smoker 

since age 17. His brand was exclusively unfiltered Camels, and 

he consumed as many as three packs a day. ln our more than 

sixty years of a close sibling association I have never known 

him to be seriously ill, but in his 76th year his health started to 

deteriorate and on January gth, I988, a combination of cancer 

and encephalitis ended his life after an illness of several 

months during which no hope existed. What an amazing constitution 

he must have had to endure all that nicotine poisoning 

for so many years! lf he'd had the will power and incentive 

to quit smoking at an earlier age he might still (in 200'l) be 

alive. 

I have always said that Ed was a much more "compleat" amateur 

radio operator than I have ever been. He was first 

licensed in 1925 after several years of tinkering with radio, 

held the highest class of amateur license available all the rest 

of his life, was continuously active on the air during all that 

period except for the 1941-1945 war years. He was not only a 

highly proficient CW operator, through long experience he had 

also accumulated a great deal of technical knowledge. At one 

trme he held a second class commercial radiotelegraph license 

but never upgraded this because he never operated commercially. 

Wherever he lived, he achieved a high level of prominence 

among amateur radio circles. 

Ed and l, despite being brothers. were never much alike. Being 

the namesake of his famous father much was expected of 

him, more than he was able to achieve, resulting in an inferiority 

complex which was often mistaken for the exact opposite. 

He failed at Lafayette, not so much because of lack of 

ability as of his refusal to be an image of his father; but in my 

opinion he was a better electronics engineer than many a college 

graduate in that field - largely through his experience 

with and enthusiasm for amateur radio. During our adolescence 

and early maturity he was my mentor and my " Elmer, " 

but never my ideal. ln all technical phases of amateur radio I 

acceded to his superiority, but in CW operating proficiency, 

except in the early stages, lconsidered myself his equal. Not 

until I joined the ARRL headquarters staff and achieved a modicum 

of prominence therein did I feel he held me in any kind 

of respect, even grudging. 

While we had several such sibling rivalries. during our later 

years we became ever closer. ln the latter stages of his illness I 

spent many hours at his bedside as we relived our lives together. 

ln all that looking back at happier, more fruitful days, I 

think Ihelped hrm achieve a higher sense of acceptance and 

relaxation, lran a keying line from his backyard 'shack" to his 

bedside and installed both a HF receiver and 2-meter transceiver 

there so he could maintain contact with his many amateur 

radio frrends. The latter. when he was not using it elsewhere, 

remained tuned to 146.49 MHz simplex, our "intercom" frequency. 

On January 9, 1988, the voice of Bonny Somers, who 

was helping take care of him, came over this "intercom" with 

the message, "George, you better get over herel" Ed was 

gone. 

Pauline, Ed s wife, turned over to me every vestige of Ed's 

amateur radio inventory. His son Paul, who was employed as 

an executive for an association of independent telephone 

companies, came down from Washington to help his mother 

handle all other matters. There wasn't a great deal of money 

involved in Ed's lifetime accumulation of amateur radio gear. 

Much of it was obsolete, still serviceable but having little market 

value. I decided to acquire a few items of usable gear and 

conduct an auction for the rest, turning the auction proceeds 

over to Pauline. The activity turned out to be more of a tag 

sale than an auction. The local radio club turned out for it, 

helped Paul and me take down some of the antennas, buying 

some of them and some of the other remaining gear. Most of 

the transmitting equipment in his shack I decided to just leave 

there, with Pauline's permission, until I could dispose of it, 

including the vast amount of unsold items. mostly "junk" to 

be disposed of later. 

I had ideas of setting up the big Barker & Williamson PP813 

amplifier in our Coachmen trailer and using it to send my high 

speed code practice and to participate in NTS, but measurements 

disclosed that it was too bulky. Then Pauline said I could 

continue to use the backyard shack any way I wished, so I put 

up a couple of dipole antennas in the tall pine trees and came 

over from Citrus Park on Sunday and Wednesday nights to 

send the HSCP. 

It was a good arrangement, allowing me to continue the HSCP 

program as Wl NJM/4 with the same commanding signal that 

had been achieved with N4KB, using the same equipment. My 

NTS-TCC schedules, other NTS and local 2-meter activity were 

all conducted from my trailer at Citrus Park, some 7 miles 

away. The weekly TCC schedule was with Cecil,W6EOT. With 

my 100 watts and 2O{oot-high dipole the contact was sometimes 

tenuous, but thanks to Cecil's superior operating abtlity 

and better antenna we usually managed it. When it came time 

for us (Louise and me) to return to Connecticut I would take 

down the antennas and store them in the shack. Returning for 

the next winter stay, I would re-erect the antennas. Despite 

the hot, humid Florida summers, none of the equipment left in 

Ed's shack broke down. When we returned in the fall, it 

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always fired up and operated perfectly. This was a little amazing, 

considering that the shack floor was at ground level and 

often accumulated an inch or so of water during heavy rains. 

lwas able to contrnue this procedure for the winters of 1988- 

89, 1989-90, '1990-91 and 1991-92.|n November of 1992,1 

had quintuple open-heart bypass surgery and our departure 

for Florida was delayed until February of 1993. During the 

summer of '92, Pauline had moved out of her house on 

Windsor St. and took up residence in a much Iargel more luxurious 

house on Sudbury St., which Paul had purchased just 

for her. Allthe radio gear !had left in Ed's old shack had been 

stored pending my arrival in the fall to dispose of it in any way 

I saw fit. 

The principal piece of equipment I wanted to keep was the big 

B & W amplifiet but it wouldn't fit into my little Coachmen 

trailer. lfinally gave it to a local ham. Paulvolunteered to dispose 

of the rest of the stuff, which was mostly junk without 

any market value. I preserved some of the early 3NF logbooks 

for sentimental and historical reasons. 

All fame is fleeting. Ed served as ARRL section communications 

manager in Northern New Jersey and in New Mexico, as chairman 

of the Eastern Area Staff of NTS, as an officer in several 

radio clubs. His was an outstanding and unusual amateur 

radio career. ln the many stories I have told about my amateur 

radio experiences over a period of over 70 years he has played 

a prominent role. He should not be forgotten, but this is the 

destiny of all of us who have not achieved the pinnacle of 

fame, only nibbled at its edges. 

The last two winters of retirement in Florida were not nearly 

so pleasant as the first 14, due mainly to Louise's increasing 

dementia brought about by severe memory loss. We tried to 

treat her at home but in the spring o{ 1996 she was put into 

Avery Heights nursing home and has remained there ever 

since. She is under medication that keeps her calm and manageable 

but she has no memory of the past, little comprehension 

of the present and no concept of the future. I visit her at 

least twice a week, other family members also quite frequently, 

but I think she would never know the difference if we didn't 

show up. She is receiving the best possible care under the 

circumstances, and I have to be content with that; but I keep 

close watch on her condition and query the staff of the home 

closely at times. 

Meanwhile, my preoccupation with amateur radio continued 

apace. I have never regarded it as a " hobby, " and object to its 

being termed as such by others; but to most of its hundreds of 

thousands of participants that's exactly what it is. The technology, 

even the terminology, has gone far beyond me. I am as 

obsolescent as most of the equipment I use. So-called ' digital" 

communication rs a deep mystery to me and lseem to 

have no wish to understand or use it. 

Here it is June, 2001. I am in my 23rd year of retirement, my 

87th year of life. I live alone in the same house I have lived in 

since 1941. Our son Dennis died in 1984, al age 36. Our son 

Fred lives in North Brookfield, MA, a tenured professor at 

Worcester Polytechnic lnstitute, head of the civil engineering 

department. We have 6 grandchildren. all except the youngest 

Quader Century Wireless Assoclation 

fully grown, and she is almost so at age 18. lseldom see any 

of them, they all have their own lives to live, and this is as it 

should and must be. I visit the headquarters of ARRL occasionally, 

only a half-mile away where I was employed for 40 years 

and still occasionally attend its functions as an honorary vice 

president. I am a long-time member of the Quarter Century 

Wireless Association and attend the quarterly luncheons of the 

local chapter, of which I am a charter member. i often check in 

on the Newington Amateur Radro League's weekly information 

net on 2 meters but seldom attend their meetings. I keep 

a regular weekly TCC schedule with KTGXZ to forward Pacific 

Area traffic out of the Eastern Area Net. On Fridays I report 

into EAN to receive traffic for the First Region, then function 

as net control station (NCS) of the late 1 RN session to distribute 

such traffic. Occasionally on Sunday I report into the local 

QCWA net on 75 meters. 

That's about the extent of my amateur radio activity these 

days. I no longer participate in contests, DXing, no longer get 

on the air simply to "chew the rag. " Amateur radio is not and 

never has been a simple pastime for me, I have always felt the 

compulsion to do something useful; if not for the general public, 

at least for somebody or something. To get on the air for 

idle amusement has never been my "thing." 

The story is almost over. lf you count lhe3-1/2 years I was 

active on the air before I was licensed, but don't count the 

four war years from 1942 through 1945,1 have been an 

active, on-the-air amateur radio operator for 72 years. lf you 

count the war years, during which to me amateur radio was 

far from a dead issue, the figure becomes 76 years. My first 

license was dated Feb.5, I930 and has been continuous since 

then, ranging from temporary amateur in 1930, amateur in 

1931 , Class B amateur in 1932, Class A amateur in 1938 and 

Extra Class in 1966. First call letters were W3AMR, which I 

held until 1973, W8EDF from 1933 to 1936, but this call was 

never on the air by me; Wl NJM from 1941 to the present; 

D4ALS in Germany for four months in 1946.I also operated 

extensively from 3NF, W3NF, WSYA and WlAW. A record? 

Doubtful, but in terms of continuous involvement, probably 

close to it. I have no complaints. lt has been a great 76 years. 

Who knows how much longer it will last? (Sept. 4,2001) 

General Manager's comments: This completes the main 

portion of George's Random Recollections. ln November 2004, 

his wife, Louise (Stebbins) passed away. George has moved 

out of his home and at 96 years (!) lives in a senior facility. He 

still attends meetings of the QCWA Nutmeg Chapter when 

health and weather permit. 

The pages, that have been serialized in the Journal, were completed 

by George in 2001 . ln lanuary 2002, George started on 

a series of appendixes, which fill in or supplement the main 

text. Those will be started in the fall issue of the Journal. 

I hope you have enjoyed reading this material; this seridization 

was started by my predecessor Jim Wabh. 

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Novice History ffi# 

Part 6 in a Series for the QCWA Journal 

Novi ce H istorica I Society, www. Novice. ba ppy.com 

by CIiff Cheng, Ph.D., AC6C, formerly WN6JPA (1975) 

Headnote - Many hobbies like amateur radio do not have a well 

documented "history." This "history" was compiled from many 

sources (see endnote); some of them are contradictory. This history 

is incomplete and should be regarded as a work in prooress. 

There is an absence of YL, minorities, disabled hams and hams 

from the U.S. territories in this history for they are historically 

under-represented in ham radio. 

Thanks in advance for reading this, our sixth article, in a series of 

articles on the history of the Novice era of amateur radio. The 

Series started in spring 2008 with an overview of the structure 

of the license. Subsequent articles dealt with the 1951 Novices, 

the Novices of the early-1950s, mid-1950s and late-1950s. The 

Series is based on the stories and photos shared by hams who 

started as Novices on the website of the Novice Historical Society 

(The Society), www.Novice.bappy.com. Please visit and share 

your own Novice story and photos. This article is a departure 

from the typical article in the Series. ln this piece of writing, we 

shall look at a special topic of the late-1950s. 

For many, the biggest prize in the history of the Novice era 

(1951-2000) was the historical achievement of being the first 

Novice to earn the American Radio Relay League5 (ARRL) DX 

Century Club (DXCC) award. Working and confirming at least 

'1 00 countries was an achievement in itself. Most DXers took 

many years to earn this award. Usually they had stations that 

were far more substantial than a typical Novice station. DXers 

often had much better rigs, big amplifiers, big antennas and tall 

towers. Even then the DXCC was often a mix of both phone and 

CW on several bands. 

A Novice did not have the luxury of mixed mode, big amps and 

antennas, several bands and many years. The first Novice DXCC 

had to meet the criteria of having worked and confirmed 100 

countries within an additional set of challenges Generals and 

higher did not have. fhe 100 countries had to be worked within 

the 1 year non-renewable time limit of the Novice /rcense. lt 

should be noted all thatwas required to working at least 100 

valid countries with one's Novice callsign. One could get the confirmations 

after one's Novice license expired/upgraded. 

Unlike most DXers, Novice DXers had only CW. On top of this, 

Novices had to earn the DXCC while under crystal control. 

Usually an American station had to go to the DX stationb frequency. 

The rarer DX stations did not need to tune around and 

see who was calling them. They certainly did not need to go into 

the American Novice bands looking for a QSO. They had too 

many stations trying to work them, especially if it was a rare 

country and/or DX-pedition. And Novices had to use 75 watts 

input (50 watts output) or less. Even with highly favorable propagation 

this was simply un-doable for almost all Novices. ....but 

it was done and this article will tell by who and how. 

The Novice with all its technical constraints was not a DX license. 

The license was intentionally designed so Novices could learn to 

become competent operators and technicians. Both the FCC and 


the ham community did not want beginners to cause interference 

on the ham bands. The FCC designed a license that would 

have little chance of Novice signals making it much beyond the 

North American continent. lf a beginner caused trouble it would 

be contained and manageable. Earning a Worked All States 

(WAS) award would be a major DX achievement for a Novice. A 

DXCC would have been unthinkable had it not been for the outstanding 

propagation of Cycle 19. 

lnitially the Novice license had a one year time limit and could 

not be renewed. /t is an error to think a Novice had a whole year 

to earn the DXCC. For most of its history, there was no immediate 

indication whether someone passed or failed the Novice 

examination. One had to wait for several weeks if not months to 

find out if they passed. Many Novices did not build or buy their 

Novice station until they had the license in hand; which took 

time from their one year in which they could have been working 

more countries. An added complication was many Novices needed 

to save up money to buy a Novice station. 

Presumably a Novice capable of earning the DXCC would have 

no trouble passing a 13wpm General code exam. However passing 

the theory exam while trying to DXCC may have presented a 

problem for some Novices. Keep in mind, the Novice probably 

would had to go to school or work at the same time while chasing 

DX. 

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1958 QSL card fot Bill Tippett, KN4RLD. 

tance just under 

the limit needed to 

qualify to take a 

Conditional 

(General) exam by 

mail and that FCC 

circuit examination 

city only gave 

exams once or 

twice a year, the 

Novice had to 

spend his/her time 

preparing for the 

examination oppor- 

tunity rather than chase DX. Of course a Novice could have 

adopted a strategy to not prepare for their General exam and 

spend all their Novice year DXing, let the Novice expire and then 

start studying for the General. 

lf a Novice was going to be the first to work and confirm 'l 00 

countries with the aforementioned confines, s/he need favorable 

propagation. 1958 (the peak of Solar Cycle '19) is generally 

regarded as the year of the best band conditions in the history 

of amateur radiol A talented Novice who was licensed at this 

time had the best chance of becoming the first Novice DXCC. lt 

would not matter how much talent a Novice had, if the bands 

were not open, no DX QSOs would be had. 

Another facilitating factor was that Novices were granted i 5M 

privileges. This was a controversial allocation. Some Generals 

and higher simply did not want to share 15M with Novices. 

There were also hams who did not like the Novice license period. 

Being on the same band with DX was important for Novices 

DXers. However being crystal controlled meant the DX had to go 

to the Novice instead of the Novice going to the DX. A Novice 

had to call CQ on the frequency of the crystals s/he had and 

then tune their receiver up and down from the transmit frequency 

to see if anyone came back to his/her CQ. A rare DX station 

would not likely answer CQs if they were rare enough to create 

a pile-up. They certainly did not need to tune far away from 

their transmit frequency into the American Novice band to find 

someone to QSO with. Not having a VFO and trying to DX was a 

major constraining factor. 

As the stories on the Novice Historical Societys webpage 

www.Novice.bappy.com, attest, most American Novices did not 

work any DX; not even Canada or Mexico. The lack of DX contacts 

was mainly because they had antennas which did not 

match their desire to get out beyond the North American continent. 

lt is unlikely the first Novice to DXCC could have pull off 

such a feat with a low slung (cloud warming) dipole, which is 

what most Novices had. A directional antenna fairly high up 

would increase a Novice's chances of working DX. 

The Novice's QTH was also very important. lf one was on the 

east coast, one was in a more favorable QTH than the Midwest 

or West Coast. lt is easier to work Europe and Africa, where 

there are more countries, from the east coast than other parts of 

the continental U.S. lf a Novice was elsewhere, and was a serious 

competitor to be in on the chase to be the first Novice 

DXCC, then s/he might have had a compensating factor, like 

having a very high directional antenna or being on a very high 

mountain top. 

Novice transmitters were pretty generic and simple. The competitive 

advantage came in receivers. Many Novices until about the 

late-'1 970s used receivers which were marginal. Very few could 

afford a Collins. 

The challenge of being the first Novice to DXCC required someone 

who wanted it. Ambition alone was insufficient. S/he had to 

be a skilled operator. Back in the 1950s there were plenty of 

skilled Elmers who had been military or maritime radio operators 

who could help a teenager starting out as a Novice. QST's DX 

Editor Rod Newkirk, W9BRD speculated the first Novice DXCC 

would more likely be a skilled DXer at the start of their Novice 

year and perhaps a former military operator, SWL familiar with 

15M (Nov. 1957, pp. 71). Obviously a Novice who DXCC'ed 

would have a good working knowledge of propagation. Rod 

thought the first Novice DXCC might be high on the WlAW 

code proficiency ladder (Nov. 1957, pp. 71). 

A strong Elmer was needed. The Elmer needed to be encouraging 

and helpful but not to the point where the Elmer was doing 

too much for the Novice. A major concern in 1951 and 1958 

was that the first Novice to DXCC would have earned the honor 

by themselves. The DX community wanted to see a talented selfstarter 

earn the DXCC by their own effort. 

Finances were an obvious constraint. Hams for most of the 

Novice era hams were encouraged to be resourceful. While the 

Society, www.Novice.bappy.com, has recorded several stories of 

resourceful Novices; scrounging a station capable of earning a 

DXCC in less than a year on CW, crystal controlled, and 75 

watts was very unlikely. lt is more likely this feat could be accomplished 

with financial backing. lf a Novice was young, it likely 

meant his/her parents needed to be supportive (financially and 

otherwise). Many parents were indifferent to ham radio. There 

were many families who could not afford to finance an effort to 

achieve the DXCC. 

Even if the aforementioned factors were in place, the final components 

were human. Above all, remember that, most Novices 

were teenagers. The task required maturity beyond that of most 

teenagers. ln fact, Rod doubted a teenager could earn a DXCC 

as a Novice (Nov. 1957, pp.71). Rod went so far to speculate 

the first Novice to DXCC would probably be an adult with a 

night job so he could work band openings during the day. 

Another important set of factors were personality traits and values. 

Unless the Novice had a self-confidence and a strong work 

ethic, they would be unlikely accomplish this feat. 

One Novice overcame all these technical challenges, had finically 

supportive parents, had the skill and maturity to be the first 

Novice DXCC. He achieved what OST (Nov. 1957, pp.7'1) called 

the biggest unattained first in DX history, up until that point; the 

{irst Novice to earn the DXCC. Rod asked "Who - and when?" 

His name is Bill Tippett, KN4RID in 1958. At the time he earned 

the DXCC, Bill lived in Greensboro, North Carolina. Bill earned 

the first Novice DXCC award at age '13" The DXCC list of 1958 

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1958 DXCC award lor KN4R|D, Bill Tippett. 

published in QST (Nov. 1958, pp. 93) lists Bill as a new member 

with 102 countries. Today Bill is W4ZV ln the next article we 

shall discuss how Bill did it and then in the article after that who 

his known competitors were. 

We have a big tent approach to in the history of the Novice era. 

We invited all American Novice to share their stories and photos. 

ln a subsequent issue of OCWA lournal we will look at other 

Novice DX stories. We invite more Novice DX stories, as well as 

stories about contesting, Novice Round-up, WAS, WAC, CW 

homebrewing.... Further articles in this series will cover the 

early-'l 960s, early Novice callsigns, the mid- and late-1960s, 

early-, mid- and late-1970s, and the 1980s to 2000 when the 

FCC stopped issuing Novices altogether. 

References - See the disclaimer in the headnote" Most of the 

history in this series is based on stories told by Novices of the era 

on the website of the Novice Historical Society, 

www.Novice.bappy.com. Steve Melachrinos, W3HF's callsign history 

research has been invaluable in documenting historical facts 

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that have shaped this series. The background information in this 

series comes from several sources. One of the main background 

sources is Bill Continelli, W2XOY's "The Wayback Machine" 

http ://ha m-shack. com/h istory. html a mateu r radio h istory series. 

Rodney Dinkins, AC6V's (sk) outline was helpful, 

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on ham radio in the 'i 950s in October 1995 issue of QST and a 

similar piece in 2006. ln May 1994 issue of QST, Phil Sager, 

WB4EDT and Rick Palm, KlCE wrote a history of ham radio 

licensing which was a helpful reference for this history. ln the 

back of his licensing manuals, Gordon West, WB6NOA provided 

specific details about the history of licensing requirements. 

Cliff Cheng, Ph.D., AC6C, has been a happy ham since 1975 

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WB6JXY (sk), was a ham radio teacher for 35 years and grew a 

large and rich ham radio culture at school by teaching 6 novice 

c/asses a year, plus another 6 Novice c/asses a year for the San 

Fernando Valley Amateur Radio Club, W6SD. Ted's memorial site 

also contains Novice history, www.TedRyan.bappy.com . Cliff 

started the Novice Historical Society so hams could share their 

novice stories and pictures, wwwNovice.bapplt.com. Please visit 

Cliff's personal ham site where he has a whole section on the 

fun he had as a Novice, http://ac6c.cliff.googlepages.com. Cliff 

recently put up a webpage to honor Lenore Jensen, W6NAZ (sk) 

who historically was one of ham radio's most significant YLs, 

www.K|6CM.bappy.com. Cliff is a QCWA (33455) and ARRL life 

member. July 2008 OST. (pp 65) named Cliff to the top of the 

Public Service Honor Roll, under his old callsign WW6CC. Please 

visit Cliff's Novice history website and share your Novice story,' 

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