ASHLAND, MA PEBMIT NO.7 - Quarter Century Wireless Association

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
al QCWA Journa . Summer 2OO9 r w\ \ /.qcwa,org