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

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
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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