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

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*5€&ffiffiffi r#pc}rt# 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. 26 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
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 equipment. 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 <strong>Century</strong> 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. lcontinued on poge 30)
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Page 25 and 26: John Thomason, WBSSY| West Gull Wce
Page 27: Curt, W4QBU, presenting to Hank, WA
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Page 33 and 34: Chqpter 94, Albuquerque (NM) Chopte
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Page 37 and 38: Chuck Litilewood, K4HF President Ch
Page 39 and 40: Leo greets every guest. Leo gets hi
Page 41 and 42: 60-Year Award presented to Bill Kin
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