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

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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
QCWAJournal . Summer 2049. wM/w,qcwa,org