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www qcwa org . SUMMER 2007 Volume 56, Number 2EditorDouglas WalbridgeP.O. Box 251Hudson, MA01749qcwaeditor@gmail.comContributing AuthorsJohn B. iohnston; W3BEGeorge Hart, WlNJtt/lBill Pasternak, WA6ITFBusiness OfficeQCWA, lnc.P.O. Box 3247Framingham. MA U7 A5-3247508-405-1 930FAX: 508-405-1 955qcwagm@rcn.comWebmasterBob Roske, NOUF993 Hassan Street SEHutchinson, MN 55350-3215320-587-3890broske@hutchtel. netOCWA 0n The Web:'e-mail address:qcwagm@rcn.com,, QCWA NationalNetsSSB -Sunday at 20002 on 14347' 2O00Z"on 7035 'QCWA TOURNAL is published four times a year(quarterly) by the Quarter Century WirelessAssociation, lnc. Membership in QCWA, includinga subscription to the Journal, is available to individualswho qualify in the United States and itspossessions at the following rates: $25 for oneyear; $40 for two years; $55 for three years; and$375 for life. For Canadian & foreign membershiprates, please contact the business office.POSTMASTER: Please send change of address toQCWA, lnc., P.O. Box 3247,Framingham, MA017A5-3247.REPORTS:Presidents Mggsage - John B. Johnstory W3BEGenerql rUqnggqLs Rgpof!_ Chuck Walbridge, KIIGD5ChepteJ Reports- 1,6New Members42F E AT U R E 52007 QCWA Awards6pelermining Ihe ASe9f [ad1os Bo...b Scuptr1, KISEP775-Year AwardsqEs-gay: Chapters On The Air - "Baldy'' Baldwin, WOOFY't5QCWA's 6oth Anrr iversary39Passing of lhe Co{9 - lvlark Cheek,4BtxB40Random Recollections - George Hart, Wl NJM44To-ol Definitions18GJEI(S - Bill Pasternak,ry46l]!49COLUMNSQ&a The Rules Say-. - &hn q.Jchns_ton, W3l! 12DEPARTMENTS'Me4lorial Sqholqrship EUnd _-Classified AdsSilentl(eysClryrpterlol r[g nL13852__ s!4!ThiS mOntlrts COver! A montage of Colorado Phoios pfovided by Duane S.Thompson, KBGCC, and the Colorado Tourist Bureau, Top row from left to right: Garden-of-the-Gods, AntiqueDevils Gate ph0t0 and the Pavilion. Mrddle row: Royal G0rge with train, Washington Park and Echo Lake.Bottom row: Georgetown railr0ad ride, a hike at lndran Peaks and a Panoramic View of Denver, A specialthanks to KB6CC for supplying these fabulous photosl QCWA members, remember to head over io:hftp://qcwa-58.rmhcn.org/conventiorV for more rqlormation ano see lhe ad on oage 28ror nore 0etalls.How can you pass up this wonclerlul trip?Contents of this Journal are 02007 QCWA(Quarter Century Wireless Association)

Past PresidentsPresident: John B. Johnston, W3BE17701 Bowie Mill Rd., Derwood, MD 20855-1608Phone: 301-869-8286, johnston.johnl@att.netVice President' Leonard Nathanson, WSRC29203 Lake Park Drive, Farmington Hills, Ml 48331-2661Phone. 248-553-81 1 1, email: radioamwSrc@gmail.comSecretary: Walter Supina, N3WS525 Ridge Avenue, State College, PA 16803-3442,Phone: 81 4-238-37 98, email : n3ws@arrl. netTreasurer: Frank Harris, WA4PAM512 E Pasadena Ave, Clewiston, FL33440-3207Phone : 863 -902-3645, e-ma i l. f char ris44@ earth I i n k. netGeneral Manager: Chuck Walbridge, KIlGDPO.Box 3247 Framingham, MA 01705-3241Phone: 508-405-1930, FAX: 508-405-1 965,email: qcwagm@rcn.comQCWA home page - http://www.qcwa.orgLeroy Baldwin, WOOFY645 Mentzer Road S, Robins, lA 52328-9703Phone: 319-395-7 183, email: lqbw0ofy@aol.comVal Erwin, W5PUT1419 Latigo Lane, Flower Mound, TX 75002-6588Phone : 81 1 -490-61 22, email: da I lasqcwa@aol. comCarolyn Harrison, WBOOUMPO. Box 467, Bolivar, MO 65613-0467Phone: 411 -171 -7777, email: carolynwbOoum@alltel.netTony Hirsch, WSRSH6229 Olentangy River Road, Worthington, OH 43085-3469Phone: 61 4-880-4466, email: thirsch@ameritech.net. 36to n- lasi,rW2-FX(SKl ,, ,';,,1947 - 1964,,,,'', Earl,:R;-, Thomas;,\rV2MM (SK).'1965 - 1968: Clar.,ened:Seid,: W2KW,',(SK),'.: :,1959 - 1971Barry Goldwater, KTUGA (SK)1972 - 1973Frank A. Guntheri W2ALS (SK)1974 - 1977Harry S. Gartsman, W6ATC1978 - 1981Stuart Meyer, W2GHK (SK)1982 - ',t985.- Leland,Smith,rWSKL,(SK)'i :,'1986 - 1989Harry Dannals, W2HD1989 - 1994,, Lew:McCoy,,llUJJCP (5K) ,',1994 - 1996John Kelleher, W4ZC (SK)1996 - 1998Gary R. Harrison, K@BC1998 - 2002Croft Taylor, VE3CT2002 - 2004Executive SecretarlGeneral Manager,,Ralph,Barrber,,W2ZM,(SK),1955 - 1964Gus Gironda, W2JE (SK)1965 - 1973Ethel Smith, K4LMB (SK)1974 - 1976Ted Heithecker, W5EJ (SK)1976 - 1991Jim Walsh, WTLVN (SK)1991 - 2003Larry McCalvy, WA9JMO5400 6 Mile Road, Racine, W153402-9741Phone: 262-639-7327, e-mail: wa9imo@wi.netWilliam Pasternak, WA6ITF28197 Robin Avenue, Saugus, CA 91350-2066Phone : 661 -296-1 180, emai I : wa6itf@arnewsl i ne. orgKenneth 'Ken' D. Oelke, VESAFO729 Harvesi Hills Drive NE, Calgary, AB, T3K 4R3, CanadaPhone: 403-226-5840, email: ve6afo@3web.netEd Yoder, W3YMB9 Lakeridge Dr., Greensburg, PA 15601-9799Phone. 7 24-850-4462, ema i L edyoder@comcast. netQCWA Journa . SummeT 2aO7 . w\\w,qcwa.org

:.,'i:,l.r ii.:tiil.:John B. Johnston, W3BEAll-Star Presidential Honor Awards!n our winter Journal, the call went out for our Chapters toI nominate OCWA members for our FCC Rules Section 97.1 All-I Star Presrdentral Honor Awards for 2006. We pause annually toreflect upon just who it is among us that we admire as our rolemodels in helping to fulfill each of the five principles establishingthe very basis and purpose for the type of amateur service ourFCC expects us to provide in return for being allowed to usesome highly valuable radio spectrum. Here are our reciprents:Section 97.1(a): For service to the public as a voluntary noncommercialcommunication service, particularly with respect to providingemergency communications - Jim Cross, Wl3N, for hlswork as Maryland-DC ARRL Section Manager.Section 97.1(b): For continuing and extending the amateuroperator's proven ability to contribute to the advancement of theradio art - Walt Maxwell, W2DU, for his many technologicalcontributions.Section 97.1(c): For advancing skills in both the communicationand technical phases of the radio arls - Rol Anders, K3RA, forhis outstanding work in teaching amateur operator license preparationsclasses for the Historical Electronic Museum AmateurRadio Club,Section 97.1(d): For expanding the existing reservoir within ouramateur service of trained operators, technicians and electronicexperts - Rob Rose, AA3RR, for his outstanding work as a TeamLeader with the Laurel Amateur Radio Club VEC.Section 97.1(e): For continuing and extending the amateur operator'sunique ability to enhance international goodwill - AliceKing, Al4K, for her outstanding accomplishments in DX operatingIt is also a great pleasure to announce the recipients ofSpecial Presidential Honors Awards for 2006:Woody Brem, K3YV, for his work in re-energizing our GilCrossley Chapter #203.Pete Hansen, W8TWA, for his outstanding contributions toour Michigan Chapter #10.Chip Morgan, N3lW,Ior reactivating the Steinman Station SB1915 train station/telegraph office recreated at the RailroadMuseum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg.Ken Simpson, W&EK, for his work in collecting and providingmeeting information about our QCWA Chapters in the State ofFlorida.Paul Turner, WlDLP, for his exceptional contributions toQCWA Citrus Chapter No. 45 as a loyal and dedicated memberand long-time Secretary.Congratulations to all of our award recipients. Thanks for makingamateur radio the greatest hobby in the World. Thanks alsoto everyone who submitted a nomination.2OO8 ELECTIONThe very first thing that had to be done upon taking office lastSeptember was set into motion the process for selecting themembers for our next election to our Board of Directors. Past-Secretary and former Director Alan Pickering, KigN, was namedChair of our Nominating Committee along with former President,former Vice-President and former Director Croft Taylor, VE3CIand former Director Harold Chase, Wl EES. They have beensearching for candidates to run in our election in the spring of2008 The Committees slate is due to our General Manager byiune 15, 2007, at which time the Committee will be dismissed.The slate will be announced in our Fall JOURNAL. You may alsobe nominated by a petition signed by at least 25 members ingood standing. lt must be submitted to our General Manager byDecember 15,2007All of the candidates on the ballot will be invited to attend andobserve our Board of Directors Meeting in Denver. lt will begin at8:00 am MST on Thursday, October 41h,2007. The requirementsfor running are that you must have been a member in goodstanding continuously for more than two years immediately precedingthe nomination. You must be able to use e-mail. Onceyou meet those requirements, it will be necessary to get elected.How you do that is up to you. Serving on our standing committeesapparently can help. All of our current Officers and Directorsdid just that. Once you are elected, moreovel you must servefaithfully in carrying out your duties. These are all-volunteer, unpaidand uncompensated positions. lt is your golden opportunityto grve back a little something to amateur radio.DRIVE-THRU EXAMSSeveral members have asked for my thoughts on the issue ofno-code and easy exams. OK, so here are my two cents: For me -and probably most other hams who mastered the onerous challengesof self-study and code practice for those former meaningfulexaminations; taking time off from work; traveling to thatimposing federal building and qualifying under the icy scrutiny ofthat professional examiner - it is disturbing to observe our hobbybeing stripped piece-by-piece of the mystique that has made oursuccesses so very special to us. lt is difficult to contemplate howlicensees currently qualifying by drive-thru examining will evercome to respect and appreciate our hobby as much as we do.ACTIVITIESln January, our QCWA banner was flying highly at two hamfestsin Maryland, and our Vic Clark Chapter #91 entertained my"All About Our QCWA" PowerPoint presentation. ln February, itwas a pleasure to join with our Citrus Chapter #45 in meetingand greeting many members and prospective members at the2007 Orlando Hamcation. lt was a World-class gathering and ourQCWA booth was the best ever. ln March, our Baltimore Chapter20 held its annual "Welcome Sweet Springtime Banquet" wherethe guest of honor was the legendary Hugh Turnbull, W3ABC,who received his 75-year award. Our speaker was DianeZimmerman, AA3OF, Chair of the Foundation for Amateur RadioScholarship Fund Committee that administers 56 scholarshipawards, including our 16. Among other things that we didn'tQCWA Journa . Summer 2OO7 . w\\\vqcwa org

iFrom The Presidentknow, she told us about some of the hams who have received scholarships in the past.We all learned that it is a magnificent program that is a lot harder to administer than itsounds. We came away elated with a greater sense of pride in our Association.Let's keep our QCWA banner flying!DE W3BEThe Quarter Century WirelessAssociation, lnc. was foundedDecember 5, 1947 , as a noncommercialassociation of radio amateursorganized for the promotionof interest in Amateur Radio communicationand experimentation,{or the establishment andadvancement of the radio art andof the public welfare.Hugh Turnbull, W3ABC, (right)receives 71-year award. BobZimmeman photo..QCWA is an incorporated associationwithout capital stock charteredunder the laws of the Stateof New York, and is a tax exempt501(C)3 organization under thelnternal Revenue Code of 1986.Its affairs are governed by aPresident, Vice President,Secretary, Treasurer and a Board ofDirectors, whose voting membersare elected every two years by thegeneral membership.Diane Zimmerman, M40E Chat ot the Foundation lot Amatew RadioSehotarohip Committee, addresses Baftimote Chapter lt20 atWetcome Sweet Springtime Banquet. Boh Zimmerman photo.ln order to qualify for membershiPin QCWA one must have demonstrableproof of having been firstlicensed as an Amateur Radiooperator at least 25 years Prior toapplication for membership andmust be currently licensed.Membership inquiries and generalcorrespondence should beaddressed to the business office atPO. Box 3247, Framingham, MA01 7 05-3247 U.S.A. TelePhone:508-405- 1 930FAX: 508-405-'1965WSBE (teft) and Ritey Holtittgsworth, K4ZtlH (right) with Joh,, Chadavon teenter) FCCChief,'spectrum Management Resources & Technology Division, (ticensing) whoretired after 38 years of government service, Some 180 FCC enployees and triendEwere in attendance at the retiremenl luncheon held in Gettysburg, PA,Send your questions by e-mail to johnston.johnl@att.netQCWA Journa . Summer 2aO7 . w$/w,qcwa.org

Chuck Walbridge, KIlGDSUMMER 2OO7DAYTON SUMMARY - Dayton was the noisy, crowded, confused, "live entertainment" event that it always has beenl ltwas a pleasure to meet many old and new QCWA members who stopped by the booth. I want to thank all who contributedtheir time to "booth duty"; helping to enlist new members and renew memberships for many more. We were thrown acurve ball- when our booth reservation was confirmed, we were moved from 410 (our site the last three years) to 420.Thats the way it goes!For your information, the numbers of new/renewal(s) for this year are:NEW - 34RENEWED - 29We enjoyed the Friday night QCWA banquet and our thanks to members of Chapter 9 for their attention to the details oforganizing the event. Congratulations to Bob Heil, who received the QCWA Hall of Fame Award for his many contributionsto Amateur Radio and the communications community.HAM RADIO lS ALIVE AND WELL! - Sure, we all know that. But Headquarters was pleasantly surprised this past week by avisit from the father of twin boys carryrng applications for a FAR scholarship. These two boys have found amateur radio (theyrefuse to use the word "ham" until they have operated for a few years and have "earned" the term "ham"). Amateur radiohas provided the incentive for furthering their education. Both will be entering RIT (Rochester, NY) this fall as electrical engineeringstudents. Neither boy had any idea what they wanted to do career-wise, until the bug bit. Because of their enthusiasm,a local high school ham radio club was re-activated and new members added. Both are looking forward to theirinvolvement with local amateurs when they enter college this fall. There enthusiasm is inspiringlThere has been much written and spoken lately about the lack of new hams. I personally don't believe itl These twoboys are examples of young students who, by being exposed to technology, have found a perfect match for their interest.They, by their enthusiasm, have brought others into the "ham" radio environment and intend to continue the hobby oncampus. Reports in the Journal, and through personal knowledge, indicate to me that many of our QCWA members areinvolved in this educational activity Elsewhere in this issue, you will find a report about the Roy Neal Amateur RadioMentoring Program, which the QCWA Board of Directors has chosen to support, in conjunction with the Amateur RadioNewslinerM. The program's goal is to expand the enlistment and training of new amateur radio operators. I encourage allmembers to participate when and where possible in these types of programs.DIRECT DONATIONS TO QCWA - Tony Hirsch, W8RSH, Chairman of the Finance Committee, researched the followingdetails of the new Pension Protection Plan recently enacted by the US Congress and signed by President Bush.The Pension Protection Act (August, 2006) allows taxpayers over 70.5 years of age to donate money to a charity (those qualifiedas 501(cX3), such as QCWA) directly from their IRA account. The distributions will be tax-free and avoid the penalty onearlywithdrawals. Taxpayers are allowed to donate up to $100,000 for 2007 onlyfrom their lRA. Since the distribution willnot be included in taxable income, individuals will not be able to claim a tax deduction for the charitable contribution. Thisprovision is effective for the year 2007 only.To qualify, the donation must be made directly to the charitable organization. For QCWA, donations can be specified for theQCWA Endowment and/or Scholarship Funds. Please obtain full details from your accountant or tax advisor.OSO PARTY - The Fall QSO Party scheduled date is 9/15 - 911612001 . Log sheets are available on-line or from Headquarters.Be sure and check out details of the 20OZ Convention on pages 28-28Thank you for your participation and cooperation in QCWA activitres!Have a great summer! !73, Chuck Walbridge, KIlGDGeneral ManagerQCV\A Jourrnal . Summer 2OO7'\\,\Awqcwa,org5

QCWA and Amateur Radio Newsline ToPartner ln The Roy Neal, K6DUE, AmateurRadio Mentoring ProgramBy Bill Pasternak, WA6ITFhe Board of Directors of the Quarter Century WirelessAssociation (QCWA) has voted to affiliate with and co-sponsorwith Amateur Radio Newsline lnc.rM (ARNewslinerM) the RoyNeal, K6DUE, Amateur Radio Mentoring Program. This ts an ongolngpost-licensing educational peer program first created in 2003 in honorof the late NBC newsman and ham radio devotee Roy Neal, K6DUENow in 2007, both QCWA and ARNewslinerM believe that thedecision to join together in expanding this project comes at a crucialtime for our hobby/service. This is because thousands of previousVHF/UHF-only operators are expected to have their f irst real experienceson the HF bands as a result of the latest round of restructuringof the United States Amateur Radio Service. That change occurred onFriday, February 23rd when the new rules abolishing Morse testingcame into effect.With the Morse test no longer a prerequisite for access to theHigh Frequency bands in the USA, most experts believe that the lureof international contacts in the spectrum below 30 MHz will be thecatalyst that will entice many to take and pass the needed theory elementsto become General class operators. Once they do they will likelypurchase all-band transceivers and take to the airwaves. And it islrkely that...o mdflV will have questions regarding HF operation.. some will require assistance with antenna and station set-up.. A need to learn the protocol of international contacts, etc.ln other words, a lot of new people with new radios in need ofguidance. The belief is that by using the already in-place organizationalstructure of ARNewslie's mentoring program database in conjunctionwith the expertise of the membership of QCWA, that the transitionto High Frequency operation can be made easier for those whoare seeking such guidance.The program is not however limiied to HF operation, albeit that islikely to be rts center of focus for the foreseeable future. VHF/UHFenthusiasts will have access to assistance in such areas as building andoperate a repeater, talking by bouncing signals off the moon, andanything else that makes a ham a ham.WHY IT STARTEDRoy Neal, K6DUE, was a driving force within the structure of AmateurRadio as well as a member of the Board of Directors of ARNewslinerM.From 1973 until the time of his death he produced, directed and/orappeared in almost a dozen ham radio related films and videos. Theseinclude "Movinq Up to Amateur Radio," "The New Word of AmateurRadio" and "Ham Radio in SPace "Roy Neal is also credited with convincing NASA to permitAstronauts who are licensed radio amateurs to take their ham gear tospace. The first in 1983 was Dr. Owen Garriott, W5LFL, on-boardSpacelab-1 flying in the cargo-day of the orbiter Columbia This flightand the subsequent STS-51F mission of Dr. Tony England, W0ORE,-the first time SSTV was taken into space resulted in the creation of-the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX) and Amateur Radioon the International Space Station (ARISS) programs.Those of us who had the honor of knowing Roy were keenlyaware of his willingness to help anyone better themselves. He wasalways willing to share his lifetime of knowledge in many areasincluding news gathering, science, space exploration and of coarseAmateur Radio. Sadly, Roy passed away on August 15, 2003 due tocomplications arising from heart valve replacement surgery a few daysearlier.I'UHERE THE IDEA CAME FROM"The Roy Neal, K6DUE, Amateur Radio Mentoring Proiect" is looselybased on a similar program created by Tony Award-winning Broadwayperformer/choreographer Ann Reinking. For those of you not aware,Ms. Reinking was a student of, and performer with the legendarychoreographer and director Bob Fosse. She is now carrying on the"mentoring" traditton in the art of dance through her own educationalfoundation known as the Broadway Theater Project This is aFlorida based training program connecting siudents with seasonedtheater professionals. lf we may quote Ms. Reinking:"lts sort of an un-written law or rule in the world of dance thatyou pass on what you know. This particular craft is at its best when itspassed from one person's hands to the next."Now, if you think about it, what Ann Reinking says about"dance" applies equally to our world of Amateur Radio. Maybe moreso, because, for decades the knowledge and tradition of ourhobby/service was passed down from seasoned operators to newcorners,one to one.Unfortunately, in the ham radio of today, this art of mentoringthat we call "Elmering" seerns to be disappearing. lt seems for themost part to have been replaced by "weekend cram-class training,"the more tedious world of "on-ltne home study" and now the availabilityof "written-only" upgrades. While these paths may provide lotsof "technologically trained" hams, they do not turn out "skilled operators."Nor can any of these methods turn out hams who reallyappreciate the "art of Amateur Radio." Only one-on-one "mentoring"or "Elmering" can do that."The Roy Neal, K6DUE, Amateur Radio Mentoring Prolect" is asimilarly structured to Ms. Reinking's Broadway Theater Project in thatit fosters those one-on-one relationships that go well beyond theknowledge necessary to pass a ham radio exam. Rather, it "kicks in"after a person is licensed and puts an emphasis on our traditionalham radio values by pairing new hams with skilled operators who arewilling to teach them such radio art-forms. ln essence, to pass alongthe living traditions that make Amateur Radio what it is to all of us"old timers" regardless of our chronological age.-HOW IT WORKSTo make this work, two groups of hams are needed First are the newor upgrading hams to come forward and say: "lwant to learn more."With the recent restructuring it is likely that there will soon be a lot ofthem.Also needed are the skilled operators who are willing to donatetime to assist those in need of training. The ideal mentor is a hamrryith a several decades of first hand experience, a love of the hobby, awillingness to share his/her knowledge with others and some sparetime to devote. Retirees iookinq for ways to serve the hobby are idealcandrdates to become mentors.To get the project underway Joe Eisenberg, K0NEB, has createdthe necessary databases and begrn the process of matching volunteermentors to those wishing instruction. All that is missing is Y-O-UlllHOW TO GET INVOLVEDlf you want to become the guiding hand for a new or upgradingradio amateur, or, if you are a ham in need of assistance, we are alsoasking both groups to send us an e-mail at mentor@arnewsline.org.ln your note please state if you are offering to be a mentor or are inneed of trainrng. Please include your name, call, address, e-mailaddress with zipcode, phone number, best time of day to call and anyother pertinent information.OUR PRAYERIt is our hope that the nation's Amateur Radio community will joinwith QCWA and ARNewshnerM to make "The Roy Neal, K6DUE,Amateur Radio Mentoring Project" a part of the traditions of thehobby. We also hope that it will become a lasting memorial to theradio amateur who gave so much of his life to making Amateur Radiothe best hobby and service in the universe.Amateur Radio Newsline is a 50'1 (c)(3) non-profit charity.Contributions to Newsline and the Roy Neal, K6DUE, Amateur RadioMentoring Prolect and to Amateur Radio Newsline, lnc are taxdeductrble. Details on how to contribute are available by e-mail fromnewsline@arnewsline.org or on-line at http://www.a rnewsline. orgQCWAJournal . Summer 2Oa7 o w\\wqcwaorg

L)nruu.l ingth., Mgstery O{ Sou rce Date Code s orDete rmini"gThe"Ag.b{ An Antique Ra CioBy Bob Scupp, KSSEPt ,t f hen we obtarn an antique radio, one of the firstV V ; ffiT : fi J' IrY,.? i ii J'i^:i ;,:xI?:: il,:?l i:BJ;how long was this model/chassis number manufactured? Canwe somehow more precisely determine the year our new findwas produced? The answer is YES, YES and YES for manyradios manufactured after 1945 when manufacturers of electroniccomponents began printing Source Date Codes onthem! ls this helpful in determining an antique radio's age?You bet it doesl Let's take a better look at how it works.The Electronic lndustriesAssociation was found in 1924.Source Date Codes were usedfrom that date on especiallyduring and after the late1920's. However, EIA did notestablish Source Date Codes asindustry standard until after1945. They were used onpotentiometers and speakersand gives us a more accurateage of the device they wereused inl Sometimes manufactur-ers of electronic products would buy upcomponents lasting them in their productionfor one, two or even threeyears, Sometimes comparing the SourceDate Codes of potentiometers andspeakers in the same electronic productmay help. I am using a median of oneyear as a general but not accurate measurein this article. Some manufacturermodels and chassis were made for severalyears or more, Source Date Codesmake getting an approximate age of theelectronic product, like the antique radioyou have, more accurate but not precise!Source Date Codes during the1940's through the 1950 s have six digits.The first three are the code for themanufacuturer and the last three are forthe week and year of production. SourceDate Codes starting 1960 and mostrecently, have seven digits. The first threeare the manufacuturer and the last fourare the week and year of production.I recently purchased several items at theAlbuquerque Tailgate Swapfest on April 23. One of them wasan Emerson model G-'1 705a Lifetimer ll AM/Clock radio. lt wasnot listed in my collector's guide to tell me the original productionstarting year. I queried the AWA and Nostalgic Air lnternetmessage forums and asked if anyone could tell me the firstproduction year. I also requested a copy of the schematic andSource Date Code on a Potentiometer 137 is CTS or Chicago TelephoneSupply 6630 is the 30th week of 1966.Source Date Code 285 is Rola 709 is the gth weekof 1957.parts list. One person answered and told me it was in Sams61 5-6 issued February, i 963. Therefore the first year of productionfor this model was 1962. But how many years didEmerson manufacture this model number? In the scheme ofthings, in what specific year was the one I had made? Was thisasking too much? Apparently not. Another who respondedgave me a hyperlink to research Source Date Codes on electroniccomponents. lt was there that it became clear to mehow to unravel the mystery of Source Date Codes.The first three or four digits inthe SDC tell who the manufacturerwas. For example, anyelectronic component beginningwith 106 is Allen-Bradley. Acomponent beginning with 137is CTS Chicago TelephoneSupply. CTS was a major electroniccomponent manufacturerand sub-contractor for manyother companies including TRWI remember while working atElectronic Parts Company rnAlbuquerque, our line of TRWproducts. Many of their resistor products.such as trimmer potentiometers andvariable potentiometers had CTSstamped on them. The stamped partnumber began with 137 Of courseTRW had their own part number as well.lnoticed on the Emerson G-1705a thatthe tone control had a 1 376404 numberseries stamped on its back. The 137 isthe code for the manufacturer CTS(Chicago Telephone Supply). The 6404 isthe code for manufacturing date of thefourth week of 1964. Since it would behighly unlikely that Emerson would havestocked parts for a year, I determined itwas made during the year 19641 Thespeaker had a part number of 180263,but it turned out to be Emerson's partnumber, not the SDC. By the way, thespeaker according to Sams 615-6 wasmanufactured by Quam. Can this SDCsystem be used elsewhere? ABSOLUTELYYES! These electronic components arecommon to many other electronic devicessuch as guitar amplifiers, TV's, etc. Thewebsite on the lnternet for reading these SDCs ishttp ://www. provide. neV-cf h/pots. html. Enjoy the abi lity to dateelectronic products through the Source Date Code systeml Iwill follow up this article with more Source Date Code researchas it becomes available to me.QCWAJournal . Summer 2aa7 ' vvww',qcwa,org

Congratulations tothe following rnernberswho received a75-Year Award in2007Thomas Jones, K4JN/lGeorge Seibert, K4KVDDonald Camren, KTETMorton Jacobs, N0AWJohn Erickson, VE6NBLee Bergren, W0ARCharles Dewey, W0CDHarold Chase, Wl EESRobert Curlis, Wl EXZEdward Nowak, Wl FAJJohn Huntoon, Wl RWGerard Scarano, Wl ZMCharles Florig, W2AKGoodwrn Bretnin, W2EKDMilton Taffet, W2EBJRobert Jones, W20ZIMarvin Berstein, W2PATHugh Turnbull, W3ABCLawrence Weintraub, W3ANVGlenn Moltrup, W3BPAJames Headrick, W3CPManuel Botelho, W3NNAArthur Monsees, W4BKAndrew Letson W4BTFrank Fugle, W4FFHoward Bullock, W4LBMHugh Pulliam, W4SEMGeorge Guill, W4VANBarney Moffatt, W5CJZWilbur Crumbaker, W5DWEdward Falls, W6FTVJohn Aiton, W6HAGWarren Simmons, W6MlKenneth Macleish, WTTXRalph Turner, WBHXCMerle Lawrence, WBLUINash Walters, WBSELJoe Keese, WBVSKDuane Hass, W9BCVThe 7l-Yeair Awards!TornJones. K4JMMy earliest ham memories are of such various things-"A" and "8" Batteries, TNT; Hartley, 201A;199; UV and UX tube sockets; single wire off-center Hertz (later Wrndom) detector and one-stepregenerative receivers. Since being reactivated after WW2, I have enjoyed contestingltraffic handling,experimenttng, and rag chewing. During WW2, I conttnued operating as a flight radiooperator for the Army Air Force in North Africa and Middle East. My call changed from W3 toW4BZA when Virginia was changed from the 3rd to 4th District. ln 1968, I upgraded to Extraclass and K4lM. I am still active, and am a regular on the Virginia Traffic Net. (Cw, Of Course)Gerard Scarano. WIZMGerard Scarano, ")erry", WlZM, received his 7S-Year Award from Joyce Anderson, K4EER,President of the Treasure Coast Chapter 48 at the Oilando Hamfest in February 2007. Jerry firstlearned about electrical circuits from old Popular Mechanics magazines. He learned to send codeusing the buzzer on his front door, and built up speed copying ships and ham radio operators. Hisf irst xmitter was built from old battery sets people had thrown away. lt used a single 201A transmitterand a 2 tube receiver on B)m,'later on, a pair of 245's in PPTNT allthis during his early years inConnecticut. All his early transmittersand amplifiers were home-brew. Gerardmoved to Washington D.C. with theNavy in 1939, where he attendedGeorge Washington university Schoolof Engineering. He started working DXconfests from a brick townhouse inGeorgetown with a KW station andbeams. He started a teenaqe RotaryClub at his church with a club radio station,W3CLF. Gerard joined thePotomac Valley Radio Club, of which heis a past president. He became involvedwith Navy MARS in the early 60s andAerard Scarano, "Jerry", WIZM, received his 75'Year Aurard lromJoyce Anderson, K4EEB, President of the Treasure Coast Chapter48 at the oriando llamtest in February 2007.retired [rom the Navy Department in1972 with 34 years service. Afterreturning to Gales Ferry, Connecticut,he set up a Multi-op station with 6 tow'ers, running home-brew finals. Theseactivities resulted in walls of his shack covered with certificates and plaques! He is a member ofthe ARRL, PVRC, QCWA and the Yankee Clipper Conresr Club. Jerry took charge of the NavyMARS station K755/V/l'i,ry1/01'/BL at the Submarine base in Groton, CT ln 1972. He served asGovernor of Rotary and President of the Navy League. ln 2007 he and Ellte moved to New PortRichey, Florida, and he checks into the MARS nets and the Connecticut Mobileers,Net onl4.257mHz 1330utc daily. With his technical expertise, enthusiasm, and personal drive, "lerry"has been a wonderful asser to the Amateur Community.Goodwin Breinin. M.D.. W2EKDlwas very pleased to receive your notice of my 75th year in ham radio. lwas active until a fewyears ago when my antenna was cut down by the Super of my apartment house after a tenantcomplatined of TVl. Since t am 88 years old and have become very hard of hearing, I didn't feellike protesting. I no longer can understand 558 or full band audio but I can still copy CW. I got mygeneral ticket in 1932 when twas 13 years old. My first rig was an ARRL 199 peanut tube bread'board with which t contacted a station in New )ersey. That had all the excitement of the mostexotic DX. I was most fortunate in becoming the mascot of the old Bronx Radro Club run by FrankFrimmerman, W2FZ in his basement. lt was a marvelous venue for a beginner rn Ham Radio.What a great bunch of guys Some were pioneers of the spark gap days and many becameprominent in Ham Raclio. t can no longer recall names and calls, and some migrated to sunnyclimes-florfia and California; t lost my old tog books after WW2. But I still recail with nostalgia,Ralph Cabinitlas, Nat Bernstein, Nat Pfefter, Dave Talley and others, whose calls were notable onmany bands. Nat Bernstein was a CW master who hovered around the world record and heworked with me until t copied about 45 wpm t can still copy CW at more than 30 wpm- it stayedwith me like riding a bicycle. The inner ear hair cells respond to pure frequencies, whereas audioQCWA Journa . Sur-nmeT 2Oa7 . w\&\ / qcwa,org

is gibberish. I should tell you that I am a medical doctor and aspeci a I ist i n O phth a I m ol ogy.I served in the Big War as a battalion surgeon in the combatengineers in the Pacific where I discovered I could copy the signallights on Navy ships as well as, or better, than the navy signalmen.I ran an aid station in the Philippines where I had a view of a bigharbor loaded with ships. I commandeered a 12-inch searchlightfrom a navy CB detachment and shot the breeze with ships. Igave myself the call of GBI and quickly learned the naval gab. Igot a bit nervous when a suspicious Shore Patrol vehicle turned alight on me, but continued on. I decided to quit when a big shipcalled GBl with a huge arc light, mistook me for harbor control. ltwas fun while it lasted. I had many fascinating experiences in thewar which I incorporated in a life memoiC as yet unpublished. Ihave trained many .)apanese investigators in my lab and I haveoften reflected on the ironies of war when their fathers and Imight have wished each other dead. lndeed, on a lecture trip inJapan, one of my trainees referred to me as his "father."My interest in Ham Radio had a powerful effect on my professionalcareer. I have devoted much of my professional life to medicalresearch involving electrophysiologic studies of eye and brainwith neurons communicating by chemical and electrical codes.Deciphering these codes is a lifetime task for scientists all over thewoild and has led to major medical advances. My own accomplishmentshave been very minor but they have provided me greatpleasure and satisfaction. I have published a few hundred medicalpapers and two books, and I am currently working on a novel.lhave a photo of me and my station at age 74 which lcouldhave duplicated. The rig used an 81 1 tube and drew an inch-longflame off the plate. I worked the world with it. My subsequentrigs were the Collins 5 line and the Drake C line with an L4B linearamplifier. The rig sits idle but I still listen on the bands and ticklethe old vibroplex with stiffening fingers.Marv Bernstein. W2PATThank you very much for your letter of 5 January 2007 regardingmy 75th year anniversary of ham license. lwas first licensed in1932 with the callsignWBDLU, living in Buffalo,NY then in the 8th callarea. I was attending theBuffalo Technical H.5. atthat time. ln 1933 lwashired and worked at theColonial Rad io Corporationthat prod uced Silvertoneradios for Sears Roebuck.Eight days after PearlHarbor, I received atelegram from theCommanding General atFort Monmouth i nstructingme to report to CivilianPersonnel at 0900 hours,Matv Bernstein, W2PAT (lett), receives his75th Anniversary Award from MarconiChapter 1 38 Vice President Bernie Ricciardi,WB2EJT (right).which I did. ln January1 972, after 30 years ofemployment, I retired. Ihammed it up for just overa year, but at age 56, I wastoo young to retire, so in 1973, lioined the Hecon Corporationand worked another 1 0 years, retiring in 1984. I was a member ofthe Army Amateur Radio System in 1940 to December 1941. Ijoined AF Mars in 1951 but dropped out in 1953 due to travelworking for the Signal Corps. I reioined AF Mars in 1972 and havebeen active ever since.QCWAJourna . Summer 2407. wryvwqcwaorgI have been very lucky in many respects and enjoyed workingat all of those three positions. We have four children and all arealive and well. My wife and I married in 1939 and at 88 years ofage, she is still living. I was born June 6, 191 5 and will be 92years of age this year. I bought my first computq an OhioScientific 6502, 1 meg processor and 8 k of static ram, in 1978after the Chief Engineer at the Corporation told us we shouldbecome familiar with microprocessor slnce the product line wouldbe changing from TTL and CMOS chips to software and processors.Larr), Weintraub. W3ANVThank you for your very nice letter informing me of my 75thanniversary of amateur radio license participation. lt has shapedmy career as a CW operator and Broadcast technician for manyyears, working for NBC and then for many years for the Voice ofAmerica as a master control supervisor.I received my first /rcense as a young ham of 13 years, W2ECL.Five years were spent as a ship radio operator; 3 years with NBCas a studio tech and master control; 38 years with VOA mostly asa master control engineer. I am honored to be a Life member ofQCWA and I want to thank you for your consideration.Jirn M. Headrick. W3CPThe 75-Year plaque you sent looks great on my wall as does fheLife Member Certificate. The QCWA certainly rs a c/ass organization,this recognition all came about without me doing anything,no requests, nothing (except be a ham a long time). I want you toknow that receiving this recognition made me feel good and istruly appreciated.Hsward Bullock. WaLBMGrowing up in lllinois on a farm, my interest in radio started withlistening for DX on my grandparents battery-powered AM radio(gooseneck speake). My mentq the only ham in the area and ashipboard radio operator, helped spark my interest when he washome. I took my first license exam by mail and was issued a conditionallicense. lmagine the difficulty for a ham with very littlemoney living out in the country without AC power lines available.There are several chapters to that story. I started out using batteriesto get on the air. After several years, the electric lines wereextended and I was really in my glory. Exciting experiences withantennas included erecting a V beam with 550 ft. legs, a JohnsonQ antenna (anyone left that remembers the Johnson Q?) with a500 foot 600 ohm feed line.Along came WW2 and I read a short paragraph in QST statingthat the WAR Dept. needed high speed radio operators at stationWAR in Washington, DC. ln Decembet 1941, lapplied and washired as a civilian operator. After 3 months, as a civilian employee,I enlisted in the Army and was stationed at WAR in the Pentagonin various capacities. During that time, there was a continuousadvancement in communications technology. This was an interestingperiod and a great opportunity for me, especially since manyof my co-workers were also hams. Among the better known wasBob Denniston, WOWX, (later President of ARRL, and President ofthe IARU) and Rod Newkirk, WgBRD, later (QST DX Editor formany years).Upon discharge from the Army, I was asked to stay on as acivilian employee and continued in the operations area. WAR wasNet Control of the worldwide network and I served as Chief ofRadio (Facility) Control for several years. During the early years,while working full time, I was able to complete college under theGl Bill. That resulted in my becoming a CPA, howeve7 I elected tocontinue my communications career. ln the late 1950s lwas pro-I

moted to a staff position in plans and programs of the Office ofthe Chief Signal Officer. lretired as a civilian in 1972.Through all these years, and on a limited basis, I continued myinterest in ham radio. tt has had an amazing and beneficial impacton my life. t couldn't complete a resume without a tribute to mywife, a former naval officer in WW ll and later, a professionalemployee in the early years at ClA, mother of our two sons, one agenetic engineer and the other a Clinical Psychologist.5he a/soexhibited a great deal of patience with a husband that spent a lotof his spare time at the ham rig!Andrew B. Letson. W4BTI was originally licensed as W4BGO, in 1932 in Auburn, Alabama.ln 1935, I joined the CCC and spent two years building andinstalling sites for the CCC and training cw operators for CCCcamps in Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. ln 1937, I went to seaas radio operator on the 5.5. Lehigh. fhe transmitter was a 5 KWspark unit. I may have been the last operator to use spark. TheLehigh was in Hamberg, Germany when spark was outlawed. Wereceived special permission from the Federal Radio Bureau to usespark on our return voyage. I received 8.5. degree from L.S.U. in1940. I spent five years as Naval Aviator in Woild War 2 as a Lt.Commander. After the war, I started my career in radio broadcastingwhich lasted for forty years. I was owner of WCNH, Quincy,FL; WMOP Ocala, FL; and WBIX, Jacksonville, FL. ln 1966 (or1967) I won the QCWA QSO Party. I was the first station to everoperate 160 meters from Guatemala. Callsign W4BT was obtainedin 1976.Barne), Moffatt, W5CJZBarney Moffatt, WSCJZ, one of the few surviving charter membersof Chapter 41 , is celebrating his 75th year as a licensed amateurradio operator, still possessing his original call. He maried LilThomas in 1936 and in 1940 ioined Mid-Continent Airlines inKansas City as a Radio Operator. He later transferred to theMaintenance Department where he designed and built electronictest equipment useci on the carrier's then state-of-the art aircraft,the Lockheed Lodestar. Following the hectic demands upon thecarrier during WW ll, he was transferred to California where heparticipated in the airline's postwar transition to an all DC-3 airline.At the time of the merger of Mid-Continent into BraniffAirways in 1953, he was Radio Shop Foreman in Minneapolis andwas transferred to Dallas, Texas where he took charge of theRadio, lnstrument, Accessory and Hydraulic shops for the combinedairline operations. tn addition, he was put in charge of theairline's South American communications system. When Branifflater acquired Panagra Airlines, which operated extensively inSouth America, he was given additional responsibility for its SheetMetal, Machine, Wheel, Brake, and Trre shops.Bamey retired in 1979 but was subsequently called out of retire'ment, finally retiring after having worked 40 years in the airlinebusiness. Through those and succeeding years, he has managedto amass a total of 328 countries confirmed on CW.ln almost a century of life, Bamey has experienced manychanges in both the airline business and amateur radio, and utilizedthe opportunities provided. Not surprisingly, he is today asactive and enthusiastic in life as ever.Al Sirnrnons, W6MIYou people keep excellent records to recognize the date membersobtained theirfirst license. I received my first ticket at age 16 atthe sub treasury office in lower Manhattan in 1932. I live inBen Letson, W4BL receiving his 75-Year Plaque'Stamford, CT and used to roam around radio row, the site of thefuture World Trade CenteL destroyed later. I was surprised to readin the QCWA Journal that the FCC had a station on the Oregoncoast involved in submarine detection, since that would be a militaryoperation. I was one of the 500 hams that received atelegram one December 7, 1941 from the FCC offering a iob. Iignored that request for personal reasons. The draft board caughtup with me in June 1942 and had to reenlist in the Navy and continueas an intercept operator which I had been doing in theOrient before the war. (My call belonged to the Rl in San Diegobefore t got it from Washington in 1968. Hl!)Bamey Moffatt, W\CJZ, one of the few surviving Charter members of Chapter41, is celebrating his 75th yeat as a licensed amateur radio operator, still possessinghis original call.note: some material was edited for space considerations.10 QCWA Journal . Summer 2aO7 . w /vrlv,qcwa,org

I started a new area on theGICWA Website and I need Your helP!It has become more and more apparent over the past several years that QCWA is losing history rightbefore our eyes. This was driven home again when I received notice that Dwight, W2ATM, had become aSilent Key. Dwight was QCWA Member # 2117.All I received was a copy of his obituary which was very sparse concerning his amateur experiance. After aGoogle search on W2ATM I was able to pull together more information on Dwight and add it to his QCWA SKwebpage. l've had the honor of posting 158 SK pages thus fat and it's time to take the next step. lt's time westart honoring our members while they are still among us.I'd like biographies and pictures (high school or college graduation, and current would be nice) of QCWAmembers that have membership numbers lower than 3500, are over 9O-years old or are in failing health. Youmay also include QSL cards, pictures of your stations. almost anything that pertains to your Ham experience.l,d like the bios as a word doc or a text file. lt would be nice for the pictures and QSL cards to be in digital format,but I do have a scanner. lnclude a SASE if you want the pictures returned.ln the future, we'll seek out the next group of younger members'Submrt everything to me at broske@hutchtel.nethttp ://www. q cwa. orgls i I e nt-keys-d ate. htmhttp ://www. qcwa.orglou r-l ivi ng-herita ge-qcwa-n um ber. htmtnx es 73.Bob, N0UFQCWA Webmasterffig fu;kr e r il:r)z'";,ffrr*,ffi,;s:l,lQCWA Belt Buckle ORDER FORM'Name:Call:Address:zip.State:QCWA Chapter # National Member #Email:QuantityBrass/Gold?-- QuantityPewter/Silver?Buckle size is 3'/,"Each buckle is $24.95 (US) plus $4.00 (US) Shipping and HandlingMail your order to: QCWA, P.0, Box '1641 , Pottsboro, TX 75076Phone: (903) 821-5072 o email: qcwa@texoma.netAllow 4 weeks for deliverY via USPS...tC)CWA Journal . Summer 2OO7 'v\\\\v.qcwa org 11

MAX TENQ.Williust one; station lD every 10 mlnutes alwaysA. Not in every instance. The station identificationannouncement must always be transmitted at the conclusionof a QSO or other communications When it continuesfor more than 10 minutes, obviously, the lD must alsobe transmrtted at least every 1O minutes.Q. A local ham lodged a complaint with our clubpresident about'an upcoming club programanin9uncement that t made on.aur 2 meter repeater.The announcement included the following descrip-1.lt,'was to be about RF broadband wireless teehnology.2. The name anid call sign of the presenter.3. The name af the hroadband company with whichthe piiresenter:has a pecuniary interest, but he doesnot refleet:that'w,hen operating on the ham.radiobands.I have no connection with the company, but theapparent perception was that mentioning the nameof a'eompany over the air as part of a'radio club pro'gram;wal- a violation of Seetion 97.11i. (Comment?)A. Based on what you've explained, and if it passes the 11point smell test, there should be no the legitimate basisfor that complaint. You can obtain a copy of the test by e-mail request to john@lohnston. net.Q. t,have seen "Bed light Review Completed" oniome FCC Admin pagZs where thiere ii a pendingapplication. Whiat does this'meanlA. lt means that the applicant may have been assessed amonetary forfeiture (fine) by the FCC and it has not beenpa id.This "Red Light" rule implements the Debt Collectionlmprovement Act codified at Section 1.1910. lt says thatanyone seeking a benefit from the FCC who is delinquentin debt owed to the FCC will be unable to obtain a benefituntil there is resolution of that delinquency.Q. How can a club abtain the call sigr't of a fofiner'member, naw deceased, who'has no living relatives?A. Unless the deceased left a written statement of consentin accord with recently revised Section 97.19(c)(3), theycan only try for it under the first-come-first-served, by-listprovision.Q. Could a transmitter that has been certifie,d forPart 90 be modified and used on our ham bands?A. Yes. The modification, howevel would de-certify it foruse under Part 90, Private Land Mobile Radio Services.Q. Can an Amateur Radio vhf transceiver be modifiedta transmit,outside the hgm band and,then used'ona public safety channe,l such as fire'or law enforce'ment?A. No. See Section 90.203. ii says that certification ofequipment is required for "...each transmitter utilized foroperation under this part and each transmitter marketedas set forth in 52.803. " A transmitter for our amateurservice would not have that certification.W3BE-O-GRAM: The issue here for us is the threat thatsuch activity carries. Obviously, our highly accommodatingrules are irresistibly tempting to those who would misuseour privileges as the loophole whereby non-FCC-certifiedamateur service transmitters wind up being used in radioservices where only certified transceivers are authortzed.This could bring on unwanted regulatton as the only practicalsolution to curtailtng such shady practices.Q. I was told to "Consult a VE" by both the Leagueand the FCC when I inquired if a ham from Uruguay -but now a US citizen - was eligible for reciprocalprivileges here. What is the answer?W3BE-O-GRAM: You are in luck: ljust happen to be aVE with the Laurel ARC-VEC!A. The answer (no way) is in Section 97 .107 . lt says, inpertinent part, that no citizen of the United States is eligiblefor reciprocal operating authority.12 QCWA Journal . Summer 2Oa7 . w\\\ /.qcwa org

Q. I got a e-mail from a gentleman wbo is cominghere from lndia. He hias a ham license in tndia, anddoesn't know if that's valid in the 1J.5. t know uSlicenses can be used in other countries as long as youfollow their radio rules. I figured maybe the samewas true in reverse, but not.every country has thesame agreements. HW?A. He is good to go. Access http://fcc.gov and search on"amateur reciprocal. You will see that India is on thereciprocal list. His authority is FCC Rules Section 9t .107 ,Reciprocal operating authority. For the latest rules, searchon "GPO e-CFR". Then access fitle 47, Volume 5 and Part97.Q. I know a lot of CW ops and digital ops who arenot happy campers. Look out for the fallout. The CWnets and digital guys will be arguing over space.(CommentT)W3BE-O-GRAM: Many years ago, our amateur servicecommunity was led down this rocky "let's have the governmentdivide up the bands into sub-bands for us" pathwith-no-endthat we are now traveling. No such plancould ever possibly satisfy anyone all of the time or everyoneat any particular time. lt can be but a compromisewhereby someone is always unhappy.That's exactly what I predicted would happen in my filingagainst all such nonsense in the lncentive Licensingproceeding over 40 years ago. The justification: to encouragehams to upgrade - doesn't cut it. Sub-bands do notcause hams to upgrade. Just ask any ham who hasn'tdone so. lt is class-related call signs that cause hams toupgrade. Just ask any Group A call sign holder. Those whodon't learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeatthem. Someone is probably working on a still sillier plan.The other justification: to segregate emission modes, alsofails miserably. Our loss of flexibility is way too high a priceto pay for regulattng the otherwise uncooperative few.Q. Anyone thinking that it vtas a good thing toremove the]requirement that the administering VEsor the VE session manager give pubtic announcementaf the location and time of each exam sessrbn rs askingfotr corruption. (Camment?)W3BE-O-GRAM: That remains to be seen. As long asthe VEs do their job correctly, we'll be OK.Q. I have set up a Novice Historical Society webpageat www.Novice.bappy.com. I really enjoyed my yearsas a Novice. I have noticed when I get together withhams that they remember their novice time with asmile on their face. We need more smiles about hamradio. lf we are happy and showing it, we willattract new hams. I see the site as a way to celebrate(and strengthen) ham radio.W3BE-O-GRAM: Congratulations on the nice site. Mytime as a KN2HHR durtng the Spring of 1954 was a veryexciting experience. Sometimes I wlsh that I could rewindto that point and enjoy it all over again.Q.We reside in South Florida, but spend our summersin New Jersey where I sign,,t'W4{suffixlportable 2." Can t dispense with this?A. Yes. The indicator "portable 2" is optional. Yourassigned call sign is always required, of course. Section97.1 1 9(c) says:One or more indicators may be included with the callsign. Each indicator must be separated from the callsign by the slant mark (/) or by any suitable word thatdenotes the slant mark. lf an indicator is selfassigned,it must be included before, aftet or bothbefore and after, the call sign. No self-assigned indicatormay conflict with any other indicator specifiedby the FCC Rules or with any prefix assigned toanother country.Q. There is confusion created by the Canadian operatorswhile'operating in the llSA. unlike Eurape, theuSA requires the visiting Canadian to use their caltexample, VE4XXX operating in New York would useVE4XXXNII2 (and also give the location/QTH). l"hisapparently does cause confusion when the visitingCanadian station is Maritime Mobile and gives theadditional MM suffix without an intervening "l' asVEAXXXAIII2MM. Since "W2MM" is an issued USAcall, this causes an identification conflict. The visitor,should prabahly use VEAXX)OIOI2/MM in thisinstance. Comment?A. Yes, to the /W2 part; Yes, to the multiple indicators;No, to the iMM part. The prefix "MM" is assigned toScotland and fails the "prefix assigned to another country"test. See www.ac6v.com/prefixes.htm.Q. I say that any idle repeater that gives an tD periodicallyis broadcasting. What do you say?A. lsay, "Read our rules and heed our rules." First off,"broadcasting," as used in our rules, is defined in Section97.3(a)(10) as "Transmissions intended for reception by thegeneral public, either direct or relayed." No one is goingto swallow that the repeater lD is transmitted for receptionby the general public.Section 97 .119(a) says that each amateur station, withexceptions not relevant here, must transmit its assignedcall sign on its transmitting channel for the purpose ofclearly making the source of the transmissions from thestation known to those receiving the transmissions. Whenthe repeater transmits its statron identification announce-QCWA Journal . SuTnnrer 2aO7 . www qcwa org 13

ment during periods that it is not simultaneously retransmittingthe transmission of another amateur station on adifferent channel or channels (definition of a repeater inSection 97 .3(a)), it is obviously engaged in transmitting aone-way communication.W3BE-O-GRAM: Catch 22 - The lD announcementitself is the one-way communication.Q. What is the maximum transmitter power authorized, far, Earth. Mod n;|a rth,,,t1an 1m issions?,,::A. There are no special accommodations for E-M-E in ourrules. See Section 97 .313 for our transmitter power standards.No station may transmit with a transmitter powerexceeding 1.5 kW PEPQ.,,,a u 7.',V E: :Te.am', ltas bee n'a:sked i f ' t h ey c a n a d m i I i s -,7s r, 2 6. e x atn t d a : c s n -v.i ctei'd t el a n, ;e a, n t h e y ?ed terminal is not available at the test site, a recent printoutof the grant should suffice. The VEC should verrfy thegrant, however, before the filing is made.APPRECATIONOur R&R Superham-of-the-Month s Rol Anders, K3RA.Rol is our very excellent instructor for the Iicense examinationpreparation courses given at the Historical ElectronicMuseum in Linthicum, VlD. http.//www.qsl.neVw3hem/Thank you, Rol, for your dedication in bringing to bearyour valuable expertise in increasing the number of trulyqualified operators in our amateur service community. Bestwishes on your election to the NCVEC's Question PoolCommittee.Read our rules - Heed our ruleslSend your questions by e-mail to john@johnston.netA. There is no rule that would prevent your VE team fromadministering the examinations.Q. When our VEsessions are announced, it is always' *enti:ane.d,Ii::,bri,ralOy::CSeEs:oi#c-ensei 2e,: pvd6l afcieilk,for-: ecrliiih' elertents:,paised;', l 1s1fis,ponderi6g' :,,ibat:a:;pfi ant tr m, the, feC, database,,6r ABRL'd ata-'barg,,sht.wiog. lhe: lieense:,beld, artd,' expiratioio date,::wiatda,h avA' the& {tkiC nt: l o r matia.. r to,, p va;v4,16e,,, lieeri:;e,hel d;.:IMhat do, thq,.lfules: Say?, : :,, :A. Section 97.505(a) says that the administering VEs mustgive credit as specified to an examinee holding any of certainlicense grants or license documents. Your license grantis shown on the FCC ULS database. lf an lnternet-connect-Rol Anderc, KsRA, Superham-of-the-month!Trying to s$equipment?)COMMITTEECHAIRPERSONQCWA Journai . Summer 2OO7 . w\\w.qcwa org

CHAPTERS ON THE AIRn E s s a By "Baldy" Baldwin, WOOFYI first became aware of the QCWAas a teenager in Minneapolis,Minnesota in the late 40s. My dadwould bring home Popular Mechanics,Popular Science and Mechanics lllustratedmagazines and give them to me when hewas done with them. One time he broughthome a magazine called QST. A friend ofmy dad was Leonard Foard, W0NYO, andhe must have told dad about the magazine.I studred every page many times over andstill remember the QCWA ad with its logowith the old man pounding the key and thead with the neat Harvey Wells Band Mastertransm itter.My next introduction to the QCWAwas in the early 60s while working in CedarRapids, lowa. John Dinter, K0JJA (SK), oneof the local 6-meter gang came in my officeat work and asked if I would join theQCWA as he was going to activate or starta local QCWA chapter and needed members.I remembered the QCWA ad that saidyou had to be licensed for 25 years to join.I told John that I had been licensed for only10 years and not eligible. He must havethought I had been licensed longer becauseof my W0 call as most of the 6-meter ganghad K0 calls. A few had a W0 prefix andthey were old timers licensed before theWW2. I don't know what happened aboutstarting a local QCWA chapter. lt must havebeen the start of lowa Chapter 123,The third time QCWA came to mynotice was in fall of 1991 at the ARRLSouth Dakota State Convention inWatertown. I was to meet with an oldMinnesota friend, Everett Hoard, NONVQ.Everett was now living in Lehr, ND and wasW0HPS in the early 50s but let his licenseexpire and wanted to take the general writtentest in Watertown. He passed the 13wpm code and technician test in Phoenixand then was issued a technician class calland wanted to use the 13 wpm CSCEbefore it had expired. He passed theGeneral test and was to meet the wife andI at the Saturday night banquet in front ofthe banquet room in the headquartershotel, The wife and I were staying about ablock away.The wife and I got to the banquetlobby early and found an empty room witha portable bar. We each got a drink and satdown in the nice stuffed chairs. The lobbywas still empty when the wife asked meabout my WOOFY call as she had only seenK0, WAO and N0 calls on the name badgesin the indoor flea market. I explained thatwhen the WOs and KOs were used uP theFCC then went to WAO, WBO etc. the N0calls were issued to technician class licenses.Just then two old timers walked in,looked around and then got their drinks.The pair looked like Laurel and Hardy. I toldthe wife that these two fellows must haveW0 calls. I invited them over to our areaand introduced myself and my wife.These guys were from Sioux City, lowaand soon joined by a Big fellow fromMinnesota wrth his wife. All had W0 calls.My friend, Everett arrived as the lobby wasgetting full. Another fellow joined ourgroup and was the ARRL Dakota DivisionDirector. The ARRL Director had a W0 callbut was a W6 a few years before. Thesefellows must be ARRL big wigs.The banquet doors were opened andthe mad rush was on. I told Everett and thewives that I would get in as fast as I couldand get a table for the four of us I did findan empty table far away from the headtable. When Everett and the wives arrived Isaid I had better use the restroom and tosave a seat for me. As I walked out I sawLaurel and Hardy walking around near thehead table. When I returned the room wasfull and with everybody seated and foundmy table full. Yes Laurel, Hardy and the Bigfellow were seated at our table. This wasquite a pleasant surprise that they joinedus. Everybody introduced themselves andthis time I found out just who they were:LAUREL- Al Smith, WOPEX (SK)QCWA C hapter 1 23, Secretary/Treasurer,HARDY Dick Pitner, W0FZO (SK)-3900 C I u b, Secreta rylTreasur rer.Big Fellow from Minnesota Bill Ogden,-WOKHG, QCWA Chapter B net control.AI, WOPEX, asked me if I knew John Dinter,KOJJA, at Col[ns. I said "yes I knew John. "Al then said that he and John startedChapter 123 along with other old timers.He also said that Dinter and Al were bothpart time salesmen for a Radio/Electronicsstudy course company. I remember thatJohn was invoived and must have been theEastern lowa representative in Cedar Rapidsand Al, W0PEX, must have been theWestern lowa representative in Sioux City.Al asked if I was interested in joining theQCWA and I must have said yes and asked"what do they do?" He told me about theQCWA and Chapter 123 and said to listenin next Saturday morning at 7:30 am.WOKHG then gave me his Chapter B frequencyand invited me to listen in at Bam,right after Chapter '1 23. I never heard of"Chapters On The Air" before Dick ,W0FZO, also invited me to join in the 3900Club activity at 8 am on Sunday mornings. Ididn't have a working HF transmitter yetbut was working getting my Collins KWS'Ioperating and didn't have a 75-meterantenna. I did have plenty of receivers andlistened in to Chapter 123 and Chapter 8the next Saturday using my tower by shuntfeeding it as the antenna.Both Chapters On The Air nets wereinteresting and the people were interestedin the net controls reports about theWatertown activities, I was very impressedwith the Chapters On The Air activity and Itwas my first real introduction to the QCWAand its activities, The Chapters On The Airprogram is a very nice way to get to knowhams. I was born and raised in Minnesotaand the people at Collins said I had aScandinavian accent. The hams on theChapter 8 net also had the same accent. Amonth or so later WOPEX sent me theQCWA membership and Chapter 123 applicationforms. I joined the QCWA andChapter 123 in late 1991 or very ear:ly.1992.1 finally got on the air some time in1992 with the KWS1 and an inverted Vee. antenna and then joined Chapter 8 becausethe Chapter Treasurer, WOTHM, Doug (sk),was on the net and invited me to join, ltwas good hearing the news from the "oldcountry" and they were very interested inmy activities at Collins Radio.Chapters On The Air is a very importantactivity in the QCWA club. lt keepsmembers together with common interests.It is the way I got started in the QCWA. Allactive members have contact with theQCWA activities via the Journal and somecheck into their local chapter net.My son Frank, N05FF, takes me and hisfriends to Dayton every year. I started goingin 1994 and have been there every yearsince. I make the crew attend the DaytonQCWA Chapter 9 banquet since I startedgoing. I hope the crew will join the QCWAwhen they get to the 25-year mark. I maynot be around to see them joiri but I amtrying to get these kids introduced to the"Old Timers". Frank has about 12 years togo.I have been the net control of Chapter8, Upper Midwest net since W0KHZ had astroke a few years ago. We meet at 8 amevery Saturday on 3909 kHz plus or minus1 kHz.QCWAJournal . Summer 2OO7 . \ ^\ /,qcwa,org 15

CHAPIER WP. SATTENTI0N! QCWA Ghapter Report Guidelines: All Chapter reports will need to follow these timits set by the pubticarions StandingCommittee: 500 words and two photos maximum. When taking photos group together those receiving awards rather than individual photos Those canalways be posted on a Chapter webpage. When a Chapter report is submitted, please include the Chapter number in the title and with any photos submitted.Preferred formats for reports are: Word (.doc), rtf or plain textChqpfer l, Clevelqnd (OH)ARRL Greot Lokes Division Director Jim Weover, KBJE, wosthe guest speoker ot the Clevelond Chopter April I4thmeeting, qnd discussed o number of issues focing AmoteurRqdio ond the Leogue. Among them: chonges otHeodquorters, relotionships with the FCC, the Federol legislotionogendo ond internotionol issues.We thonk John Popoy, KBYSE, for his interesting tolk oiour lost meeting covering his porticipotion in the Swoinslslond DXpedition, o new DXCC entity. lohn workednumerous stqtions on SSB, including aCWA members.Horry Winfield, KBLXH, is omong severol Chopter memberswho hove volunteered for the new "Elmer Corps."He's been working with young people through the FoirfoxRodio Club in Clevelond in which he serves os trustee.A welcome to new Chopter member Ted Knyszek,KCBCUJ, of Pormq Heights.Devere "Dee" Logan, WlHE0, SecreloryChopter 6, Pittsburgh (PA)The first meeting of 2007 for Chopter 6 not only usheredin o New Yeor, but it ushered in o new venue os well.Notorious for closing down restouronts (five so for), theChopter 6 gong settled on Rocky's ll in McKees Rocks, PA.Despite the cold ond snowy weother conditions, o dozenheorty souls mustered for the meeting, ond QCWADirector Ed Yoder, W3YMB, ond his wife, Corolyn, troveledthe longest distqnce to qttend.After the usuol breoking of breod ond swopping stories,the meeting wos brought to order by Presideni RoyRepp, W3TZW. Roy meniioned the worm response hereceived os o result of his letter thonking the Steel CityARC for moking the club repeoter qvoilqble for ourSundoy morning nei. Thot net, incidentolly, is hosted byBruce Murroy, N3GHl,on Sundoy mornings ot OB3O pre-President Boy Repp, W3TZW; and our Net Control 0perator, Bruce Murray,N3GH|, discussing some finer points of the Chapter's Sunday morning net,voiling time on the Steel City repeoter 147.03/63. All orewelcome to ioin us.A presentotion wos given on oliernoie hom communicotionsvio the internet using VolP (Voice over lnternetProtocol). Operoiionol ospects were presented for bothECHOLINK qnd the newer QSONET methods. Both progromsprovide worldwide communicqtion copobiliiy tolicensed omoieurs who hqve qccess to the internet, ondthe lotter provides both CW ond voice modes. This newformot mokes it possible for those omoteurs who ore inossisted core focilities owoy from home stotions, bound bycovenonis, building or ontenno restrictions, or even bodbond conditions to remoin octive in the hobby. lt wosnoted thot in mony respects the VolP operotion is preferobleto onihe-oir operoiing os there qre no problems withnoise levels, interference, or odverse propogotion.Toking note of wintery conditions, the meeting wosodiourned with the expectotion thqt the spring meetingwould be onnounced with the orrivol of more hospiiobleweother ond the return of our snowbird contingent.Brian Roherts, K?VKY16 QCWAJournal . Summer 2Oa7 . w\&t,rl,qcwaorg

Chopter lO, Michigon (Ml)April 1 9, 2007 , morks the 48th onniversory of Chopier,l0, ond our Chopter continues to grow os we welcomethese new members to QCWA ond Chopter lO: AlonDuncon, NBDQU, Oscodo, Ml; Robert Poul Cook, NBIZF,Petoskey, Ml; Joy P. Hoppe, WBBSQJ, Dorr, MI; WilliomGietzen, WABHDG, North Shores, MI; ond Ronold M.Sovelo, W8lLS, Columet, Ml.It is with deep regret thot we musi report the possingof Merle Lowrence, WBLUI, who went Silent Key onJonuory 29, 2007. Merle wos to receive his Z5thAnniversory of Licensing Aword this yeor, ond it will nowbe presented posthumously to his fomily.Our onnuol meeting will be held on Moy 5, 2007, olthe Woterfront Restouront in Codilloc, Ml, beginning ot12:00 noon. There will be o luncheon followed by ourbusiness meeting, election of officers, ond the presentotionof QCWA service owqrds. This event is being held in coniunctionwith the Wexoukee Amoteur Rodio Club's swopond shop, which is held thot morning from B:00 AM untilNoon, ot the Codilloc Junior High School. We thonk thotorgonizotion for providing aCWA wiih o toble, free ofchorge, so thot we moy spreod the news obout QCWAond recruit new members. Further detoils ovoiloble on ourChopter 1O webpoge on the OCWA Notionol website.Congrotulotions go out to Chorles Dewey, Jr.,Yt/ACD,upon receipt of his 75th Anniversory of Licensing Aword,ond Honorory Life Membership. (see photo this issue).Donold R. "Von", VonSickle, KBGOU, received his 5OthAnniversory of Licensing Aword, ond 50 Yeqrs ofContinuous Licensing Aword. [see photo this issue). Weore proud of their mony qccomplishments ond coniributionsto Amoteur Rodio ond to QCWA. Detoils of the othernine 2007 oword recipients will be feotured in futureissues of the Journol.The Chopter summer picnic will be held onWednesdoy, August 15, 2OO7 , qt the Kenwood Pork, inCodillqc, Ml, storting oi l2:00 noon. All QCWA membersore cordiolly invited to oitend, os you need not be o memberof Chopter l0 to ottend ony of our functions or to porticipotein ony of our nets.Our CW net hos chonged to Sundoy qfternoon ot2:30 PM, locol time, ond is held on 3.530 MHz. This is oslow-speed, nonJroffic net. Net control operoior will vory,ond oll aCWA members ond non-members olike ore invitedto porticipote. Our Sundoy SSB net is still held onSundoy morning, with o pre-nei storting ot Z:30 AM, locoltime, followed by ihe regulor net ot B:00 AM. Everyone isinvited to loin us on thot net too.As this orticle is being written, spring is iust orriving,ond by the time it is published, it will be oround the firstdoy of summer. We wish everyone o sofe ond hoppyCharles E. Dewey, Jr W0CD, receives his 75th Anniversary ol Licensing Awardand Honorary QCWA Life Membership, February 2007,Merle Lawrcnce, WBLUI (1915-2007) eamed his 75th-Anniversary of LicensingAward on January 01, 2007, and became Silent Key on January 29th.QCWAJournal . Surrnrer 2Oa7 . www.qcwa.org 17

,$*AXi.X:,:r&,:*r*;*&&.*rztr'*7.,.:**.*,:X*r*rr.{r*'r6*t*;,?*t**,\--:i:i"--r':.1 n. :I:: \-':I i- ,t a'h -;,% *. xr*,?a"a: . . *:a*8* *:: ..)?*.*:$.**:: .rr& *t,,,r. .*. ?t*.lndependence Doy on July 4th, ond Lobor Doy onSeptember 3rd. To our Conodion members, o HoppyConodo Doy on July 1 st. Drive corefully, ond hove o sofeond enioyoble summer 2007.Jomes F. Bishop, WBIFB, Seuetory/TreosurerChopter I l. NORCAT (CA)On December 2006 our onnuol Chopter 1 1 meeting wosheld on the third Wednesdoy of Dec. 2006 ot Horry'sHofbrou, Redwood City, CA. We hod 26 members present.We hod o follow-up presentotion by Brod Wyott,K6WR, who updoted the group on his use of the YIgDXXInternet Remote Bose stolion locqted in Boghdod, lroq,since it come up in mid.Jon. 2006. Brod lives in ocondo/townhouse complex with CC&Rs prohibiting outdoorontennos, so this is how he hos been octive on thebonds using the vorious stotions throughout the worldinvolved with this system. See www.wZDXX.com ondwww.w4mq.com for detoils ond progroms. Also seewww.iroqi-ors.com for the websiie of the lroqi AmoteurRodio Society.Terry Finn, 446l ottended the 2006 OCWAConvention in Colgory, Alberto. He hod o greot time visitinghis former homelond. He presented the Conventionofficioldom wilh o gift of Colifornio wine on beholf of ourChopter.The monthly meetings of Chopter I I - NORCAL- oreheld the third Wed. of eoch month qt noon ot "TheCorvery" - Horry's Hofbrou - in Redwood City on ElComino Reql one block north (toword Son Froncisco) ofthe intersection with Hiwoy 84.The 2007 Officers ore Al Montoyo, WB6|MX,President; Peie Vqn Putten, WA6UDU, Vice Pres.; ondBrod Wyott, K6WR, Sec./Treos.Our Morch 2007 meeting wos on "After St. Potrick'sDoy" lunch on Morch 2l , 2007 , ot the Sequoio YochtClub in Redwood City feoturing corned beef ond cobboge.Eorlier in the month, we were pleosed to oword JohnCorter, W3ELO, his 70-Yeor ACWA Aword.We continue to welcome new members to lhe Chopterond its nets. About 25 members usuolly ottend eoch meeting.At eoch meefing we ore pleosed to welcome newmemberslPleose come ioin us for the sociol hour sioriing oboutI I AM with lunch storting o holf hour or so loter.Brod Wyatt, K6WR, Secretory /TreosurerChopter 2O, Bqltimore tMD)PresidentJohnston, W3BE, opened our Welcome SweeiSpringtime bonquet ot Hellos Restouront ond Lounge inMillersville, Morylond with the pledge of ollegionce.Friend of Chopter 2O Russ Tenhoff, KB3OPE, then goveihe invocotion.Russ is o new Hom ond iust hoppened to ioin us forone of our Mondoy lunches. John introduced those ot thedinner qnd then the Officers of Chopier 20. There were30 in ottendonce including Hugh Turnbull, W3ABC, whowos presented with his Z5-Yeor Aword.Chopter 20 member George Asoki, W3MPN, wososked io come forword with hls XyL Nobie, ond wos presentedwith his SO-Yeor Aword.After the Aword presentotions, dinner wos servedwhich included greot Crob Cokes.After dinner, Dione Zimmermon, AA3OF, Choir personof the FAR Scholorship Committee, gove her tolk on thedifferent scholorships ovoiloble qnd how they were oworded.The tine folks from Chapter 11L to R: Joe, KSJIS; Ed, KBSIKD (friends of chapter 20); John, W3BE; Les, WB3X;George, W3MPN (receiving the s0-Year Award); Bruce, W3YW; Nobie, (George'sXYL); Ken, WSBFQ, and Befty, NSPKX.io ]OQCWA Journai . Summer 2OO7 . w\\\ /,qcwa,org

Next outing will be determined ot q future doie.lf you ore in the oreo, pleose ioin us ot one of ourMondoy lunches ot Coctus Willies Ritchie Highwoy, GlenBurnie, Morylond.Les lomison, WR3X, Secretary/Vice PresidentChopter 28, CNY & EMPA (NY & PA)Hello Addo, W3QBZ, ond other ACWA Chopter 28Members.The chonge in tiile of Chopter 28 hos been discussedfor o number of yeors, with on intention to expond toinclude "Endless Mountoins" in ihe tiile.The Chopter Officers ogreed losi Sundoy, meeting ofterihe regulor net, to chonge the title io "Centrol New Yorkond Endless Mountoins". I hove so informed aCWAHeodquorters.We olso hove chonged the NCS listing in the QCWA.Journol's Nets toble from K2MFB to stote thot the NCS"Vories". We greotly miss our recent Silent key, K2MFB,Williom Volky.Bill Thonpson, WzMl+ SecreloryChopter 29. Finger Lokes (NY)Chopter 29 meets the lost Fridoy of every month qtWeber's Restouront, B2O Donforth Street, Syrocuse, NY.The Chopier hos recently hod the pleosure of preseniingaCWA Anniversory Awords to the following recipients:50 yeors: Jim Mollette,W2PFD; Jim O'Keefe,WZSY ondKen Blume, Jr ,K2UP|;60-Yeor Aword: Von Compbell,W2RDC; 65-Yeor Awords to Jim Mozley, W2BCH ondLou Agresti, W2OPF; 7}-Yeor to Al Obrist, N2AO, ondGeorge Cook, W2RBK; ond o7S-Yeor Aword to ChorlieFloring, W2AK. W2AK hos been continuously licensedsince 1932.1* you knew him "bock when", he wosWBEBR. The Chopter decided to honor Chorlie by mokingo donotion to the QCWA Scholorship Fund in his nome.Our honoree ihen decided to odd o contribution of hisown to the Fund.lf you would like to view pictures of our smiling Awordreci pients, pleose see www. qcwo. org/cho pterO2 9. htm.Our Chopter newsletter, which is prepored by SteveAuyer, N2TKX, is ovoiloble ot thot site.The weother qnd turnout were equolly good.Our next meeting will be ot Jockson's Mill ond theWest Virginio Stote ARRL Convention. This will be the 5OthAnniversory for the Convention ond will olso be theRoonoke Division Convention. Our Chopter is mokingplons to host other ACWA Chopters from the RoonokeDivision for the weekend. Mork your colendors for theweekend of August 26th. There will be o Chopter meetingon Soturdoy ofternoon.Looking oheod, it is time to stort thinking oboutOfficers for our Chopter. We will be selecting o President,Vice President, ond Secretory/Treosurer loter this foll. Theterm our Officers serve is for two yeors. lt would be goodio find volunteers for these positions. Does onyone wont tostep forword to serve? Does onyone hove suggestions forsomeone who would be willing to serve?We welcome new members Robert Brown, WBARC,from Weirton; Lonnie Moynord, KYBB, of Logon; ChorlieDotson, WBBNSL, in Pennsboro; ond George Current,KBHHV in Foirmont. lt's good to hove you oboord, fellows.I do not hove o dote ot ihis time for our foll gotheringond election. lt should come in lote September or eorlyOctober. Wotch our Chopter newsletter for the dote to beonnounced.Dove Moys, W$UI, Secretty /freosurerChopters 32 & 128, Gotor & Pelicon (FL)The Jonuory ioint meeting of the Gotor ond PeliconChopters wos o lot of fun. It wos greoi io sociolize withmembers from both Chopters PLUS visitors from the Ocoloond the Orlondo Chopters. We hod o very interesting progromthonks to Pelicon VP Ron Holl Sr., KP2N whoorronged for our Speoker. Ellen White, WlYL/4, gove olohn Rouhie, KZLDD, SecretaryChqpter 3O, West Virgulrq_0a {)I om hoppy to onnounce we hod o very good spring gotheringApril 28th with o Dutch treot luncheon in Weston.L-B Nita, XYL of NSNN and WIYL's travel companion, Veronika, KC YAW; Dave,KB4U; Ron, KP2N; Eddy, NSNN; and Ellen, WIYL.QOWA Journal . Summer 2OO7 . v\\&w,qcwa.org 19

&uL.: .ia:*r'# ;-*" ''"?'- 11.- 'i. rJ-:-l; -'1,:4'ii:.* -l r- r-:' !_--,::-1-,' I . I ---- "--tr-\Pa--rl?.-)t?,f r. a-aa 2-- - -: '-_a :r3 i ir'? / it a/.. -spirited tolk obout her visit to lndio ond Nepol. She reinforcedher tqlk with on excellent visuol presentotion usingo computer ond proiector. Now...if she hod only oddedsome ethnic music for the bockground....iust kidding. Theioint meetings ore proving to be very populor ond providefor o lorger oudience for the speokers.Wolt Supinq N3W5, SecretoryChopter 41, Dollos (TX)Borney Moffott, W5CJZ, one of the few surviving Choriermembers of Chopter 4'1, is celebroting his Z5th yeor os olicensed omoteur rodio operotor, still possessing his originolcoll. He morried Lil Thomos in ,I936 ond ln I 940loined Mid-Contineni Airlines in Konsos City os o RodioOperoior. He loter tronsferred to the MointenonceDeportment where he designed ond built electronic testequipment used on the corrier's then stote-o[ihe ort oircroft,ihe Lockheed Lodestor. Following the hectic demondsupon the corrier during WWll he wos ironsferred toColifornio where he porticipoted in the Airline's postworlronsition to on oll DC-3 oircroft. He wos olso chosen toloin o teom of representotives of other oirlines of the worldto meet in Europe severol times in the formotion of o systemenobling member oirlines to borrow or procure portsfrom one onother on short notice to keep plones flying.At the time of the merger of Mid-Continent into BroniffAirwoys in .l953, he wos Rodio Shop Foremon inMinneopolis ond wos tronsferred to Dollos, Texos wherehe took chorge of the Rodio, lnstrument, Accessory, ondHydroulic shops for the combined Airline operotions. lnoddition, he wos put in chorge of the Airline's SouthAmericon communicotions system. When Broniff loterocquired Ponogro Airlines which operoted extensively inSouth Americo, he wos given odditionol responsibility forits Sheet Metol, Mochine, Wheel, Broke, ond Tire shops.Borney retired in 1979 but wos subsequently colledout of retirement, finolly retiring ofter hoving worked 40yeors in the oirline business. Through those ond succeedingyeors, he hqs monoged to omoss o totol of 328 couniriesconfirmed on CW.ln olmost o ceniury of li[e, Borney hos experiencedmony chonges in both the oirline business ond omoteurrodio ond utilized the opportunities provided. Not surprisingly,he is todoy os qctive ond enthusiostic in life os ever.Boh Olney, NSNT, Recording SecretoryChopter 48, The Treosure Coosf (F[)On Morch 12, 2OO7 we held our onnuol meeiing to elecinew Officers. The meeting wos held ot the MondorinGordens Resiourqnt in Sebostion, FL. ln ottendonce wereI2 members ond iwo spouses. Visiting from VA were JoeKolb, W4VL, ond his wife, Glodys. PresidentJoyceAnderson, K4EER, opened the meeting ond we discussedlost yeor's octivity, including the very interesting trip to theUDT/SEAL Museum. The problem with our bonk occountwos discussed ond resolved to everyone's sotisfoction.Trips were proposed to the Velocity Aircroft Foctory ondAlumo Tower for the coming months. Elections were heldond the incumbents were reelected. President, JoyceAnderson, K4EER; Vice President, Dick Kesler, NSBTU;ond Secretory,/Treosurer, Woody Anderson, K4EBK.Our Chopter, ond especiolly our President, Joyce,K4EER, were honored ot the Orlondo Homfest by therequest of Jerry Scorono, WlZM, to present him with his7S-Yeor Aword. Jerry is o member of ihe ConnecticutMobileers Nei, os is Joyce. Jerry is o member of iheNutmeg Chopter ond is now living in New Port Richey, FL.On o sod note, we honor Stonley Bittner,W4JKK; ondMerle Lowrence, WBLUI, who become Silent Keys in thepost yeor.Woody Anderson, K4EBK, Secretory /TreasurerChapter 4l Charter member Barney Moffatt is shown celebrating the TSth yearof making his call, W1CJZ, known around the world. CW operators in S2B countrieshave acknowledged it.Annual meeting on March 12,2007 at the Mandarin Gardens Bestaurant inSebastian, FL.20 QCWAJournal . Summer 2aO7. w\,\wqcwa,org

Ben Letson, W4BT, receiving his 7,-year ptaque.Jerry Scarano (B), WIZM, receiving his Z1-year Award from Joyce Anderson (L),K4EEB.Chopter 53, Suncoqst (FUWe hod 25 members ond guests in ottendonce ot ourJonuory 3rd luncheon/meeting. Following o short businessmeeting, Bob Avruiik, Nl RA, ossisied by Hons Nopfel,WB2ZZB, told of his personol experiences during WorldWor ll, estoblishing on effective Armed Forces Rodio stotionot the oir bose in Agro, lndio. Bob exponded the formeriury-rigged, one-mon operotion inio o completelyequipped stotion, with o stoff thot included onnouncerswho hod been professionol onnouncers in civilion life.Although ihis stotion wos intended for only locol coveroge,Bob received reports from other oir boses oround lndiq,complementing him on his siotion's fine signol. Bob hosbeen on ovid DXer ever sincelIt wos olmost Stonding Room Only when 3B membersond guests turned out for our Februory Zth luncheon /meeling. Stew Hoog, W4MO, wos elected to ossume the positionof Vice President, which hod been vocont since thedeoth of Bob Siff, K4AMG, in December 2006.We were proud to be ihe venue for lhe presentotion ofo QCWA 7\-Yeor ploque. aCWA Secretory, WoltSupino, N3WS, come to our meeting to present thisAword io Ben Lefson, W4BT. Ben hqd been o Chqriermember of Chopter 53, ond hqd served os President,when he lived in Sorosoio. Loter he moved to Costo Rico,but is now living in St. Peiersburg. Ben offered some commentsobout the founding of our Chopter by members ofGotor Chopter who then lived in the Sorosoto oreo.548 Years of Amateur Radio! Following our February meeting, some of theold Timers got together for a photo. From the left, Art, WSWM (66 years);Stew, W4M0 (60 years); Bob, NtBA (66 years); Jack, W4JS (i3 years); Ben,W4BT (75 years); Bernie, W4G0 (70 years); Croft, VEJCT (EZ years); Lee, K4GCY(68 years); and Walt, NSWS (31 years). A lot ot ham radio experience therefor sure!Hons Nopfel,WB2ZZB, then offered on integrotedvideo qnd PowerPoint presentotion. Hons storied off comporingrelotive iower heights, going from o yogi ot B6' too formolly ottired soloist singing from 200' up on histower. Going even higher, Hons took us olong on o hoioir bolloon ride, then o brief visit to Gibroltor (where thefree-rooming Borbory Apes like to eot cooxiol coblesl),ond we ended our visuol tour ot the US Militory Cemeteryin Normondy, Fronce.Once ogoin, 3B members ond guests were of ourMorchTth luncheon/meeting. On beholf of our Chopter,QCWA Post President, Croft Toylor, VE3CI presentedaCWA Service pins to our following members: BernieHoltmon, W4GO (7O-Yeor); Lqmqr Grohom, W4FKR (65yeors); Lee Dorby, K4GCY (65-Yeor); Bob Avrutik, NIRA(65-Yeor); Siew Hoog, W4MO (60-Yeor); Hons Nopfel,QCWAJournal . Summer 2aa7 . w\A A/,ocwa.orc 21

3!. Y 1 q.':'l. i), l.l) :., .-"" -' : .:"'-.WB2ZZB (55-Yeor); ond Andy Durette, KBI HIP (SO-yeor).Joe Thiel, WAIVNP then gove o very informotivePowerPoint presentotion on "Spoce Junk," describing someof the multitude of both useful equipment qnd discordedmoteriols flooting in orbit oround the Eorth.From October through Moy, Suncoost Chopter 53meets ot Denny's, 370'l Bee Ridge Rood, Sorosoio, FL, otI l:30 AM the first Wednesdoy of the monrh. We olsohove informol lunches, on the some schedule, June throughSeptember, ot the Pondo Povilion in Venice, FL. All OCWAmembers living in, or visiting, the Florido Suncoqst oreoore olwoys welcome. Pleose contoct the undersigned otw4is@iuno.com if you would like to ioin with us.la* Sproal, W4t5, PresidentChqpter 58, Colorodo (COlPlons qre proceeding for QCWA's 6Oth AnniversoryConveniion to be held in Denver next October (see informoiionelsewhere in this issue). ln oddition to the tours ondoctivities ovoiloble, we ore olso excited obout the scheduledseminors ond presentotions including the QCWAForum, Operoting from the Antorctic (Skip Withrow,WBOBBE), ond on IARU Updote (Dr. Lorry Price, W4RA).Detoiled informotion is on the web ot http://qcwa-5 B. rm hcn.org/conveniion/ i nclud ing the downloodobleregistrotion form (now being occepted).Chopter 5B is olso developing o ioint proiect to creoteo "live" working Amqteur Rodio siotion with The WingsOver The Rockies Air ond Spoce Museum, Denver,s firstAerospoce Museum, ond the Offlciol Air qnd SpoceMuseum of the Stqte of Colorodo. Opened in '1994 in thehistoric l93O's-ero Air Force Honger No. I ot the formerLowry Air Force Bose, it hos on exiensive collection ondorchive, including o rodio room ond q full-sized mock-upof o mqnned spoce stoiion crew module (perfect for oworking OSCAR/Spoce Stotion/Shuttle rodio stotion).The museum is Denver's newest historicol ond educotionolfocility, ond is dedicoted to educqtion, science,mothemotics, technology, the rich history of flight in theRocky Mountoin region, ond to teoch ihe younger generotionobout the science of oviotion ond spoce trovel. Withover 3O oircrqft ond other speciol exhibits, there is somethingof inleresi in the Museum for everyone. Militory oircroft,from o B-lA Loncer to o vintoge B-lBA Bolo, plusvorious home-builts, soil plones, restorotions, ond reproductionsqre the centerpiece of this educotionol venue.With the exception of the Museum's 8-528, which hos oploce of honor qt the front door io greei visitors, oll oircroftore disployed indoors in o climote controlled environment.ln oddition to the oircroft on disploy, the Museum isQCWA Member Scott Thompson, KB6CC, poses at a controt pane! in the fuilsized,Martin Marietta mock-up of a space station crew module at Colorado,sWings 0ver the Bockies Air & Space Museum.The Wings 0ver the Bockies Air & Space Maseum has an actual Russian spacesuit on exhibit (shown approaching an airlock), Can you say ',SuitSat',?home to other historicolly significont disploys. PresidentDwight D. Eisenhower esioblished his "summer WhiteHouse" in the Denver qreo, ond the Eisenhower StoteDining Room exhibit disploys the octuol furnishings, ortworkond lifestyle of thot importont ero.The Avionics ond Rodio Exhibit is o wonderful collectionof beoutifully restored exomples of period rodio, telephoneqnd ovionics technology from spork-gop to sotellites.More informotion is ovoiloble othttp://qcwo-5B.rmhcn.org/wings/ which includes o link to theMuseum's web site.Chopier 5B is pleosed to hove the Wings Over theRockies Museum included os one of the octivities ovoiloblelo lhe 2OO7 Convention ottendees this coming October.Scott fhompson , KB6CC22 QCWAJournal o Summer 2Oa7 c w\A\ /,qcwaorg

. : *?;4.: *a rg* ar,:t' tara*?,*:, A. * :.*:r;;?a7r.rr;9, *4":" .,n::::E ? *,*t .:.' **i:*,t.*r{ Y,:.*irr/.4.','L*:..:, 4t ,r?r'*r,1.?:,*'.:..,.rr..:.*.&.,&.:..,::.:8,&&,i:;t:.,..::rt*r:;r..e,.:$r.:.-&r,Chqpter 63, Oklqhomq (OK)The Quorter Century Wireless Associotion CentrolOklohomo Chopter 63 held their onnuol meeting ot I l:OOo.m. on Mondoy, Jonuory 29, 2007, ot ihe HometownBuffet. Following on enioyoble meol ond good conversotionbetween the fifteen members ond guesls present, onelection of Officers for the coming yeor wos held. TheNominoting Committee report wos mode by GeorgeLegoly, W5NTL. Then nominqtions from the floor wereopened. The result of the election, including those retoiningoffice from previous elections were os follows:Joneses - Bob, W2OZ|; ond Lorroine, K2ZYS, - long-timeChopter members. They ore both on the mend from heolthproblems, so ore currently unoble to oiiend our functions.We were proud to present Bob with his ZS-Yeor Awordploque, ond Lorroine with her 5O-Yeqr Certificote, ondhod o thoroughly enioyoble visit. We congrotulote thislovely couple ond onticipote seeing them regulorly ogoinot our lunches.We meet every second Soturdoy oi noon of Brennon'sBowery Bor ot Moin ond Tronsit in Clorence, NY. Weencouroge out-of town visitors to ioin our friendly group.Join us olso for our weekly net on Sundoy ot I 330 locoltime on 3900 khz.Lwy Ryhacki, WA2ARA, President /SecretaryShown left to right are Harold Hall, KASAGM, retiring Chaptil 63 President, andSkip Amis, newly-elected Chapter 63 President.Presideni: Skip Amis, N5CFMVice-President: Lorry Wotson, W5EIUSecretory/Treosurer: Norm Wilson, W5FLODirectors: Elmo Block, W5JCB; Morlyn Cohen, W5KOU;George Legoly, WSNTL; Rod Steword, K5IBFLorraine Jones, K2ZVS, and Bob, W20ZT, in their QTH with their ,0-Year and 75-Year Certificates.Lyeal Amos, WSSICChopter 65, Niqgqro Frontier (NY)Tom Foley, WA2EYF, hos ioined ihe Niogoro FrontierChopier. We welcome Tom io the foldlSteve Heider, W0LUB, ond his wife, Arvelo, shoredtheir experiences ond pictures with us of their recent trip toAustrolio ot the Februory luncheon. Steve wos quite odeptot importing little-known focts of this exotic lond thot fewof us will ever get to enioy firsthond. Thonk you, StevelVP Tom Wholen, W2Ql; ond Pres. Lorry Rybocki,WA2ARA, "disployed ihe flog" ot the homfest inLoncosier, NY in Morch. Greoi woy to breok up theWestern New York winter!Tom, Lorry, ond XYL, Kothy, troveled to the QTH of theTom, W2Ql, mans the QCWA table at the Lancaster, NY Hamfest. AIso picturedare Marv, W2WKU: ancl John, MCF.QCWA Journal . Sunrmer 2Oa7 . w\\w,qcwa.org 23

,t .',' rt;X 7,,&,r X. {/,} : *) 7}* . eZ 7t:. :&-'t f, * 7.: :*::rt' "rr:..Chopter 7O Nqtionol Copitol RegionOnowo (ONlThe Chopter's first dinner meeting {or 2OO7 wos held on20 Februory with 3'l members in ottendonce. The turnouifor this dinner wos lower thon usuol due to some 'snowbirds'resting in wormer climotes. President Dove Porks,VE3AV choiring the meeting, extended thonks ond oppreciotionfor service to the Chopter to retiring executiveboord members Ernie Brown, VA3OEB, ond Jim Deon,vE3ra.The guest speoker for the evening wos Rick Bondlo,VE3CVG, o Chopier Z0 member, whose topic wos thenew D-Stqr (Digitol Smqrt Technologies for Amoteur Rodio)digltol rodio communicotion system originolly developedby the Jopon Amoteur Rodio Leogue. Along with his monyyeors of professionol work experience in ihe telecommunicotionfield, Rick's omoteur rodio experience olso encomposseshis present endeovor ot the Ottowo Amoteur RodioDigitol Group (OARDG) os o proiect leoder for ihe implementotionof D-Stor in Ottowo.There qre severol D-STAR repeoter instolloiions inConodo ond in the USA, ond o ropidly growing numberof users. The Ottowo D-STAR system, collsign VA3ODG,includes digitol 1.2kb doto/digitol voice repeoters on 2m,7)cm, ond 23cm os well os o I 29kb/s digitol doto rodioon 23cm. The OARDG implementotion teom expecis tohove their repeoters operoiionol in April 2007. The gotewoyequipment, which will enoble network connectionbeyond the Ottowo oreo, will be operotionol in Moy2007.D-STAR uses less bondwidth thon FM voice repeotersond includes o simultoneous doto streom. D-STAR rodioshove numerous feqtures thot moke use of the doto. Someof these feotures include collsign disploy; collsign octivotedoudio, emergency ond breok-in colling, lotitude/longi-Chapter 70 Executive Board members - back rotil, trom the left: Director, DougLeach, VESXK; Vice-President, Gus HolE, VESVK; President, Dave Parks, VE3AV;Secretary, Tom Bartello, VESELM; Treasuref Bryan Rawlings, VESQN - lront row,seated, from the left: Past President, Joe Parkinson, VE3JG; Directo7 MargHeaslip, VE3EQE, Directot; Bobert MacKenzie, VA3RKM,tude disploy of the fqr stotion. The D-STAR Gotewoy permitsworldwide connectivity vio the internei ond qlso oddsfeoiures such os digitol APRS ond short messoge service.Applicotions will be odded os ihey become ovoiloble. D-STAR systems con be built using commerciol or homebrewequipment ond softwore.D-STAR uses o codec known os AMBE@ for AdvoncedMulti-Bond Excitotion ond the voice signol is tronsmitted ot3600 bits/second (3.6 kbps). Terminol emuloiion softworeor o web browser con provide qdditionql processing(beyond the rodio feotures) of the dotq portion of the D-STAR signol qt ihe rodio end. Other feqtures con be developedond instolled in the gotewoy computer normollyossocioted with one or more repeoters. Assisting Rick inhis presentotion wos Chopter member Ken Asmus,VA3KA, olso o member of the OARDG.Prior to concluding the evening, the drow(s) for thedoor prizes ond the 50/50 drow were conducted withseverol lucky winners toking home the vorious prizes.Ton Bortello, VE3ELIYL SecretaryChopter 76, Blue Ridge (NC)Bick Bandla, VESCVG, giving his D-Star presentation.!n terms of weother, we were fortunote this yeor here inthe Blue Ridge Mountoins. Our overoge snowfoll of iustover I I inches turned out to be iust over 1 .5 inches (sofor). We hove hod roin so the only people who coreobout the difference ore those who own skislChopter 76 is probobly one of, if not the most octiveChopter in QCWA, with two monthly meefings. At our firstmeeting, we hqve o guest speoker on ony one of o wideronge of topics. The second meeting of the month is gener-24 QCWA Jcurnal . Summer 2Oa7 . w\\w,qcwa org

Sheriff Davis making his presentation.(L) Al Abercronbie, W2GJS, receiving a Meritorious Award from Jeff Kelly,K4JAB.olly o friendly geFiogether, i.e., o meet, greet ond eotoffoir.ln Jonuory, our new Chopter Secretory, Jeff Kelly,K4JAB, gove us some insight on digitol communicotions.At the Februory meeting, we hod iwo stock brokers whoexploined the mony [ocets of investing to us. However,they foiled to tell us thot in the next 30 doys or so, theDow would be down qbout 700 pointsl For our Morchmeeting, we hod o second visit from our new sheriff whohod visited lost yeor but os o condidote. Public servicecommunicotions ocross the stote were exploined olongwith the mony problems encountered in our mountoinousterroin. Sheriff Dovis brought his Detention Center chiefwith him, Coptoin Greg Cochron. Turns out thot CoptoinCochron is olso o hom (KF4FLL) ond is holfwoy to QCWAmembership since he wos licensed woy bock in 1994A new yeor olso brings new QCWA Service Awords.We were pleosed to present o 5O-Yeor Certificote toRonnie Porhom, K2SSI ond o 55-Yeor Certificote to.JimHorrison, W4TFT. Our Chopter Secretory, K4)AB, did thepresenting. We olso hod o 60-Yeor Certificote for longtimemember Herm Fobert, WSFHW who now resides onihe west coqst. The Ceriificoie will be moiled.Finolly, Post President, Al Abercrombie, W2GJS, wospresented with o Meritorious Aword from the Chopter forupdoting our Chopier roster os well os bringing us into the21st Century ond sending oll our communicotions vioemqil. Certoinly soves us money! Al hos been o diligentsupporter of the Chopter ond this Aword is well deserved.Thot's it for now. We meet on the I st ond 3rdWednesdoys of eoch month except December ot theGolden Corrol restouront in Hendersonville. lf you're iniown, stop by ond visit.Duke Knief, W4DKChopter 8l , Long lslond (NY)The members of Chopter 81, Long lslond, NY held theirregulorly scheduled bi-monthly meeting on Februory 20 otMory's Bockyord Resiouront in Bethpoge. The highpoint ofthe meeting wos presentotion of the QCWA 7S-YeorPloque to Milton Toffet, W2ERJ. Our new ChopterPresident, Hugo Londerer, W2lGH, did the honors.Congrotulotions Milton! (see pholo for Bl ot the top ofnext poge on left - Editar)lohn E. Reiser, WZGW Secrelary(L) Jim HarriEan, W TFT, receiving a 1,-Year Certificate from Jetf Kelly, K4JAB.Bonnie Parnham, MSST receives a 5o-Year Certificate.QCWAJournal . Surnmer 2Oa7 . w\\w,qcwa,org 25

Milton Taffet, W2EBJ (L) receiving his 7s-Year Award from Chapter president,Hugo Lander, W2IGH (R).Group photograph, Chapter 89 Dinner in Columbia, SC, Feb 24,2007.Chopter 89, Pqlmetto (SClThe Februory meeting of South Corolino Polmetto Chopier89 wos held ot The Fire Mountoin Grill dining room onBower Porkwoy in Columbio, SC. On Soturdoy Feb. 24,2007. This is o very good locotion for our get-togethers osthey hove privote dining room focilities ond the food isvery good. The buffet style service is quick ond eosy ondpleoses most everybody.23 members, wives ond visiiors were present includingtwo new ottendees, Bill Lemmon, KA4TWK, qnd RolondAkre, K4ZZ. We welcome them ond hope they will be regulors.We hoven't hod o group picture lotely so it wos decidedto line up ond see if we could get everybody together.See the ottoched picture os proof of our efforts. Therewere too mony to nqme them oll so everyone con pick outtheir own picture.Kenneth Ferguson, K4KXO, received his PostPresident's Ploque hoving served os President for the posiyeor, presented by Bill Pennekomp, WA4WGP, Presidentfor 2007.Bryce Myers, K4LXI brought us upto-dote on the progromlinking the stote through o series of VHF repeoters.The progrom is oimed ot giving the vorious civilion emergencyprogroms the communicotions coveroge thot will benecessory in times of disoster ond/or emergencies ofwhotever noture.As of now, the plon to link repeoters in the Chorlestonoreq is neorly finished ond is up ond running. The plon isto locole ihe vorious links in the hospitols in the stote primorilybecouse hospitols ore mqnned qround the clockond oll hove emergency power. The need for emergencymedicol foculties will be of poromount importonce.A progrom is now in ploce to troin hospitol personnelio use the equipment ond hom rodio closses ore ongoingoround ihe Stote. Some hove olreody gotten their homtickets through this progrom. While this is not o QCWAoctivity, our Chopter members ore very octive in the progromoround the Stote.Ralph Mott, N4RMChqpter 9I, Vic Clqrk (VA)Since the stories ond photo olbums covering oll of ourChopter's recent events ore found on our website:Kenneth Ferguson, K4KX0, receives Past Presidents Award from BillPennekamp, WA WPG.http ://homepo ge. moc. co m / r r u cker / cho pterg 1 f , only ocopsule summory of eoch recent event follows..Jonuory; We held our Annuol Meeting ot NeighborsRestouront in Vienno, VA, qnd instolled our new Officersfor 2007. Our new President, Len Hook, KG6ZR, recognizedthe ochievements of the outgoing Officers ond presentedhis oblectives for the coming yeor. Our new VP26 QCWA Journal . Summer 2aa7 . w\&w qcwa org

t ia* 3i-(i-u:Yg,'BIr fr.r,*:iXl {\,ff#,,,%i...; .1-l''. : S... i i ' :'r.'; .- ,, -,X l , \"Sond Progrom Choirmon, Tim Donovon WA4CLK, introducedJohn B. Johnston, W3BE, who told us obout QCWAfrom his perspective os President.John onswered these three questions in on entertoiningmonner ond using well-chosen photos of interestingACWA members ond ortifocts: (1) Who mokes QCWA ogreot orgonizotion? (2) How did OCWA get storted? (3)How is ACWA monoged? John's lovely XYL, Betty, K3PKX,ioined us for the occosion.Februory: We toured the Historic Electronics Museum(HEM) in Linthicum, MD for the second time. Our first tourwos in Morch 2002, ond significont chonges hove beenmode since. Docent John McCorty took I B members ondguests through the vorious golleries, telling us stories oboutwhot he thought importont. Members Rolph Albers,W4ER, ond Moury Shumqker, W4HYB, hod interestingpersonol stories to relote obout two of the exhibits; thethird photo shows me recording Moury's story using myrecording iPod.The stories of John, Rolph, ond Moury ore told on ourwebsite. Also feotured is the story of o rodio-controlledLen Hook, KGOZR.Maury Shumaker, W4HYB & Dick Rucker, KM4MLmodel oircroft thqt broke two internotionol records on itsflight over the Atlqntic Oceqn in 2003. After the tour, wehod o greot lunch ot the neorby G&M Restouront, iustlyfomous for its crob-coke sondwiches.Morch: We were bock ot Neighbors Restouront forlunch followed by o storytelling session. Member BillLeovitt, W3AZ, who holds QCWA member #04875,\edoff telling obout Vic CIork, W4KFC, os o top-flight contesterond pronkster before ond ofter WWll, the foundingof the Potomoc Volley Rodio Club (PVRC); ond otherschimed in with their fovorite stories qs well. Other wellknownhoms remembered were Jerry Mothis, W3BES;Prose Wolker, W4BW; Bill Grenfell, W4GF; ond FronkKrotokvil, K4RE.Bob Fosulkey, W4BBQ, remembered his Elmer os omon he never met, ond Nelson Seese, W4BHD, recolledhow he mode out os o hom while monoging the WeqtherBureou's wireless links. We ron out of time long before weron out of stories to tell, so I suspect we'll be doing itogoin whenever we con find ihe iime.For more obout these events ond the photo olbums coveringthem, pleose visit our website.Dick Rucker, KM4MLChopter I 08. Beover Stote (OR)Our first quorierly meeting ol2OO7 wos held on Jonuory2Oth ot ihe Yoquino Boy Restouront in Albony, Oregon.We hqd o good turnout with sixteen members ond wivesin ottendonce. Dr. Dovid Hqcklemon, WZQH, presented oprogrom on olternotive fuels with on emphosis on hisnotionwide trip to promote the use of biodiesel. His tripused hom rodio to mointoin communicotion with friendsocross the country.Tim Donovan, WA4CLK.(continued on page 30)QCWA Jourrnal . Summer 2OO7 . w\&tv,qcwa org 27

of the Quorter Century Wireless AssociotioninDenver, Colorsdoo* the2gg7 lnlernstionol QCWA Convenlion4-7October2€97http:. / /qcwa-S8. rmhcn. org/conventi-on/g EADaUARTERS HOTEL: The Doubletree Hotel, 3203 Quebec Street, Denver, CO 80207 - A block of singte or doubleI lroomsareavaitablefor$113.70($99.00+taxes). Forreservations,cailtheHotettoll-free ai1_BAA-222-TR:E(g733)or303-321-3333 (locally) and meniion QCWA2007 for this special rate. The hotel has a complementary airpori snui;e,restaurant, litness center, high-speed internel, as well as many oiher amenities to help make your visit an enjoyable one,1 CTIVITIES: lnformational and ente*aining presenlations and seminars on Friday and Salurday, including: SlationFl Grounding Procedures, the QCWA Forum, Health and SafetyTips forthe Shack, Amateur Radio Operations from the SouthPole, an IARU Update, and much morel Friday night's Meei & Greelwillfeatlre The 4th U.S. Artilte ry Regimentai Brass Bandfor your listening pleasure while you mingle. Check the web site to see the schedule as it develops.arrrOURS; An exciting variely of lours and aclivities are available here in ColorfulColorado. Although dif{icult to choose whatI to highlight, your host Chapter has arranged an impressive seleciion for you including:IThursday: Bus tours io lhe Black Hawk and Ceniral City Gambling Casinos, shuttle buses for shopping galore at oneof Denver's newest shopping ceniers as well as the famous 16th Streei Mall in downtown Denver,Friday: The Denver Mint and Wngs Over ihe Rockies Air & Space Museum,Saturday: the famous Georgetown Loop Rail Road, andSunday: A visit to the United States Air Force Academy, lunch al Colorado Spdngs' Garden of the Gods, topped(lilerally) with a tdp to the summit of 14,1 10 fool Pikes Peak via ihe world famous Cog Railway (check your heatth andaltitude precaulions).TTRACTlONS: lfourscheduledtoursdon'tinterestyou.Coloradocertainlyhasmuchmoretooffer...museums,zoo,parks,Flshopping,RockyMountainsMa.iesly,...waytoomanylolist. Checkourweblinksforjustafewofthemanyactivitiesyoucan easily find and enjoy on your own.qt OUVENIRS: Be sure to get your QCWA 60th Anniversary commemorative pin, available NOW (see web site), or at ar) discount with your Convention registralion. Many other collectabie items will be available at the convention.gl R|ZES: An assortment of drawings and door prizes are planned. We are gratefulto our many sponsorc and contributorsI who, wlth their suppori, are helping to make the QCWA 2007 Convention a memorable one, and kicking-ofl eCWA's 60thAnniversary year wiih a bang!5pEGISTRATION: Regisiration is available nowi Use the Registration Form in this issue, or download it from the intemetI \ and print out a blank copy 1o complete by hand orfill it in on your computerto print a legible copy to mailwlth your payment.Your form and payment must be received through the mail to confirm your registration.yOUR HOST: Esiablished on 11 November 1S71, COLORADOI CHAPTER 58, is proud to welcome you to COLORFUL COLORADOAnd our ROCKY MCUNTAINS HIGH iaaQCWAJournal . Sunnmer 2OO7. w\&wqcwa,crg

60th AnniversaryQCWA I NTERNATIONAL CONVENTION4-7October2007Denver, Colorado, USAHosted by:Golorado ChaPter 58htto :/lgcwa-58. rmh ctLqlqConvention Headquarters: The Doubletree Hotel, 3203 Quebec Street, Denver, CO 80207 USA$ingle or Double rooms are available for $'1 '1 3.70 ($99.O0+taxes). For reservations, contact the Hotel directly at: toll-free1-400-222-TREE (S733) or 303-321-3333 (local) with the special reservations code QCWA2007. The hotel has a complemenlaryairporl shuttle, high speed internet, fitness center, as well as many other amenities to make yourvisit enjoyable.ReqistrationName:Spouse:Guest / Friend:Youth (under 18):Call:Call:Call:Qall;Address::.:City:Telephone: ( ) ' ;",;:,r., *stayinsratr,Hqtrs. Hotel? fl "*,'[].ruqLocal Contact:CostTotalPre- re$ istration (beforq;t Aug..O7)@ $2o,oo : $Reg i9f{,4:tio,nJaft e r 1 Aqgio.:?}Spouse Registration . . . .Youth Registration (under 18)Friday "Meet & Greet"$aturday BanquetFriday Tour (Denver Mintlr/Mngs Over the Rockies Aerospace Museum)Saturday Tour (Georgetown Loop Rail Road)Sunday Tour (Air Force Academy/Garden of the Gods/Pikes Peak) 'Commemorative 60rh Anniversary Convention Pin . . .@i.@:@@@@@@@@$25.00 .r ,-i:ir$' 5.00"', l.$20;00$10.00$24.00$45.00$17.50$35.00$e5.00$ 5.00TOTAL = $'Make checks or Money Orders payable to "QCWA 2007 Convention" and send to: Jim Lewis WBOVYH,Chapter 58 $ecietaryffreasurer, 747 $outh Dearborn Circle, Aurora, Colorado 80012-3701aCWAJournal . Summet 2aa7' w\\\,vqcwaorga-

(continued from page 27)'t,r,*t:,,,arl r :,,:.r,. *to publish, in book form, reproductions of the eSL cordcollection of o prominent DXer.Other reminiscences included o surprising contoct withGreenlond on I5 meters when the bond oppeored to be"deod."The members ore looking forword to spring inNew Englond ond the Chopter's qnnuol meeting.Boh Smith, KK3P, PresidentChqpter I 19, Tidewqter (VA)Howard Honig, WB70K; and Roger Gates, W7KVT, with the Chapter banner at arecent Hamfair in Rickreall, 0regon,It is with deepest regrei thot we must report the possingof three of our members inio the ronks of the "silent Keys"during 2006: Gene Kelsey, NTEIF; Loyd Sims, KB7JC,ond Chuck Doty, WZRQQ. A donotion hqs been mode tothe QCWA Memoriql Scholorship Fund in their memory.We extend our sincere sympothy to their respective fomilies.On o lighter note, we wqnt io welcome the foilowingnew members to our chopter: Ronold Forkner, NZHD, ofGlodstone, Oregon; ond Terry Weber, KZYTM, o[lndependence, Oregon.Chopter l0B now hos it's own web site, thonks io thetoleni ond creotivity of our President Howord Honig,WB7OK. You con visit us at http:/ /qcwo.honeysoft.tv. Besure io tqke o look ot the lotest piciures of the lost homfoirin Rickreoll, Oregon.Our Chopter weekly Net meets on Wednesdoys ot0800 PDT on 3854 kHz. We welcome onyone whowould like to ioin us to check in.ACWA Chopter I i t hqs hod o lively ond spirired firstquorter of 2007. The Chopter membership yeor ended onDecember 3l st ond the push for renewols begon. Almostoll octive members renewed membership. Only o coupleof out-of-town members did not cotch up to the New yeor(yet) so Chopier membership is in very good shope. Wecontinue to strive to poss the 60-member mork. The firstQCWA Men, March 2007 (L to B) Vern, W4TttN; guest Gary Schuchardt, N1EZH;Vic, W4VIC; Charlie, WIWG; Barry, KSVIB Rich, WA4BUE; Sonny, KASyS. Not pictured:Ron, WSBJL (photographer).Roger Goles, W IKVT, Setretary /TreasurerChopter I 12, Yqnkee (MA)The Yonkee Chopter held its winter meeting ot q fovoritemeeiing ploce: The Yongtze River Restouront in Littleton,MA. After o fine Chinese meol qnd even better conversotion,ihe members held o "QSL Porty." Eoch member wosencouroged to bring q QSL cord from o memoroble QSOond io describe the occosion. Ernie Swenson, WB6WA,described his first contocis with Austroliq ofter trying fortwelve yeors, his coniqct with Pitcqirn lslond ond others.Mort Bordfield, Wl UQ, described on effort he is mokingQCWA Chapter 119 Ladies Day (L to R) Johanna Culvef KE4SBq; Janiee priddy;Joanne Chapman; Harriet Siff; and Judy Young, WAJJy.30 QCWAJourna . Sumr-ner 2aa7 c wM/wqc\ /a,org

ecruiting effort of the yeor wos Februory Frostfest, theonnuql hqmfest ond computer show sponsored by iheRichmond (Vo.) Amoteur Rodio TelecommunicotionsSociety {RATS) ond thot wos o successful event. We welcomethe new 2007 Chopier I '19 members: GoryChittum, WB4DNL; Alon Moe, K4AWM;Judy Young,W4J.JY; Don Snipes, W4PRN; ond new Notionol memberJerry Willioms, Jr, KJ4ll from the Richmond oreo.Congrotulotions on finding your woy to one of the bestomoieur rodio orgonizotions going!Chopier 1 l9 begon the New Yeor with o new meetingploce. The old hount, Hoppy Buffet, iust become too inconvenientos o meeting ploce, olthough everyone enioyedthe greot Chinese buffet ond, I suspect, still do. The newmeeiing ploce is Frqnkie's Ploce For Ribs, qt 5200Foirfield Shopping Center, Virginio Beoch, VA ond it iscertoinly living up to its locol reputotion os being voted theperenniol 'Best ln Town' ploce for ribs. I con personollyottesi thot the ribs ore greotl lf you might betroveling/vocotioning in the oreo on the third Fridoy ofony month pleose do drop in ond ioin us for o wonderfulluncheon meeting.Compeiing events, i.e., the Shomrock Morothon, o troditionolpublic service event iypicolly involves o number ofour members, moking it necessory to hold our FirstQuorter Generol Membership meeting on the regulormeeting dote, which is the third Fridoy of ony month.Becquse severol of our younger members bolonce fomilyond lobs with QCWA ond mosi of our more moture memberstry to bolonce ony number of ociivities with QCWA,we try to hold the quorterly 'officiol' meetings on oSoturdoy when oll con plon to ottend. This iime, eventsconspired ogoinst us, ond the first quorter meeting - honoringihe lodies of Chopter I ,l9, wqs held on Fridoy, MorchI 6th. Phoios of those in ottendonce ore included with thisreport. The photogropher, member Ron, WBRJL, didn't geiincluded, but he hos been pictured in previous Chopterreports, so we don't feel too bod for him.The moior octiviiy which closes out the first Quorter is,of course, the QCWA QSO Porty. The Chopter collsign,Wa4CWA, will be on the oir, ond we note ihot ihere oreother Chopters wiih the QCWA collsign - WQ6CWA,licensed in 2OO4; WA4CWA licensed in Dec. 2006, ondthere were reports thot WQOCWA wos on ihe oir - thismoy hove been q Speciol Events collsign, os it does notoppeor in ihe QRZ.COM doiobose. QSL cords ovoiloblewith SASE to Borry, K5VIP whose oddress is good in theQRZ dotobose. All WQ4CWA HF QSO's ore uplooded toLoTW.Vk Culver, W4VICQCWAJournal . Summer 2aO7 '\,\vvwqcwa.orgWomen, QCWWAs you reod this, it is summer ond Doyton is behind us.We hope thot ihose of you who went to Doyton visited theaCWA booth. Chuck ond Jon put o lot of work into mokingthe disploy member friendly. lt's rewording when youstop by to chqt ond poy your dues or renew. We're oll forsoving the cost of postoge when we con.As you ore owore, to be o member of our Chopter,you must be current with your membership in QCWA. lfyou hoppen to be in orreors qnd still wont to consideryourself o member of QCWW pleose send your dues toHeodquorters os soon os possible.Our next Chopter meeting will be in Denver oi theOCWA Convention. Detoils will be posted on our website,qs soon os they ore worked out. Denver dotes oreOctober 4 to 7, 2007. We hope to see you there.Don't forget to let us know how you're doing. Pleqsesend your informqtion to our editor, Lorry McColvy,WASJMO, who con be reoched ot 54OO Six Mile Rd,Rocine, Wl 53402-9741 P.262.639.7327, or oIwogimo@wi.net. AIso, you con emoil me otve3hoi@roc.co.Until next time, stoy heolthy ond enioy life.Ann Nuller, VESHAI, SecrelaryChqpter 126, Piedmont (NC)The Piedmont Chopter #'126 held its quorierly meeting onSoturdoy, Morch 24,2007 ot the Villoge Tovern - HonesMoll in Winston-Solem, NC. There were 30 members ondguests present.The Boord met ot I l:00 AM. The following Boordmembers were present: Chuck Littlewood, K4HF, President;Jock Emerson, W4TJE, Vice-President; Billy Stewort,WA4PV|, Treosurer; Chorles Swindell, WB4DCM,Secretory; Wes Jones, WJ4DX, Director; ond Joe Brown,W4ONJ,Direcior. .John Covington, W4CC, Webmoster,wqs excused. Membership certificotes for W4YQY ondKD4OM were prepored ond signed. The Secretory con-[irmed with the Treosurer thot the Process of doing bonkdeposits wos sotisfoctory. We discussed doing o duesbilling notice to those thoi hove not poid their dues ondpossible progroms for future meetings.President Littlewood colled the generol meeting toorder. Jock Emerson, W4TJE, wos thonked for putting themeeting iogether. lt wos onnounced thot ACWA memberswho ore olso Mosons hove o Sundoy net on 3865 KHz olB:30 PM. Everyone then introduced themselves ond wherethey were from. George McBride wos presented with the31

*&'*t.t,S, . $- t,:;E{,3${,:Y.if}Left to Bight: Charlie Swindell, WB4DCM, Chapter 126 Secretary; Jack Emerson,W4TJE, Chapter VP; George McBride, W4DGJ, Meritorious Award Becipient;Chuck Littlewood, K4Hfi Chapter Pres.; and Billy Stewart, WA4PV|, ChapterTreasurer.aCWA Notionol Meritorious Aword for severol yeors ofoutstonding service os our Chopter's weekly Net ControlStotion. Chorles Swindell gove the quorterly nei report.The period covered wos 12-2-06 to 3-17-07. There wereI 84 check-ins ond I6 nets. N4UH mode oll the nets qndKIAF, K4HF, ond W4DGJ only missed one session. Thenew net frequency of 3825 KHz seems to be working outwell. lt wos onnounced thot the lote Vol Volentine, K4JO,hqd donoted the proceeds from the sole of his rodioequipmeni to the Chopter. We thonk Chuck , WAWXZ, torossisting Vol ond his fomily over the yeors.A brief review of the issues discussed ot the Boordmeeting wos presenfed: the next meeting will be on June 9ot Denlon ot the Clossic Restouront; mention wqs mode ofthe possibility of hoving ihe September meeting in ihe eosternport of the Stote ond renting o bus,/von to help tronsportmembers from the centrol pori of the Stote to themeeting; dues ot Notionol ore going up 4-1-07; ChopterLife membership is ovoiloble for $70; Honk Montgomery,K4HM, hod Roleigh Homfest 104/Ol/07) tickets ovoilobleot the meeting. Chopter .l26 will hove o booth qtRARSfest heqded up by Dove Ritter, ND4MR. Jock,W4TJE, informs us QCWA members who ore olso Mosonscon ioin o net thoi meets on 3865 KHz on Sundoys ot8:3Opm locol time; Henry Elwell, N4UH, will be workingon o proieci to updote our Chopier history, which is occessibleon our Chopter website. The spring aCWA aSOPorty will be Mqrch 31 April l. See the Notionol websiteor the QCWA Journol for more detoils. lt wosonnounced thot our Chopter member Roy Albers,K2HYD/HR9, would be in Honduros ond operoting QRPon QRP frequencies B-1Opm evenings, the week of3/2s/o7.Kent (Abe) Miller, K4MK, wos introduced to give oslide presentoiion on the erection of his I 3O-foot tower forhis 8O-meter beom in 2OO4. Kent hos on ontenno formthot covers I 60 meters to 440 MHZ. lt includes o towerfor 40 meters ond o tower for 20 meters. Judging fromsome of the photos, towers ore more prolific thon toodstools!Hoving on B0 Meter Beom wos o long-desiredgool for Abe since getting into hom rodio in the I 950s.Abe's son-in-low, Joe, ond Grondson, Tonner, helped withthe presentotion os well os the ontenno project, olong wiihseverol of our Chopter members. Putting up the tower itselfwos o chollenge but reol effort wos required by KAZAond others to gei the ossembled beom up to the top bydisconnecting ond reconneciing the guy wires os it wentup. Joe Owens's SUV wos required to be on the rope tolift the onienno skyword. Abe hos worked '148 countrieson BO Meters with this systemlGeorge McBride, W4DGJ, won the 50/50 drowingond Joe Brown, W4ONJ, won the door prize, "HFAniennos for oll Locoiions" by RSGB/Wes Moon, G6XN.Thonks to Corolyn ond Mory Jo for helping out. This woso record turnout for o recent Chopter 'l 26 meeting - woyto golThe meeting wos odiourned ot 2:l5pm for more fellowshipond pictures.Chulie Swindell, W B4DCllL SecretaryChqpter I38, Mqrconi (NJlMorconi Chopter l3B held their winter quorterly meetingon Jonuory 25 ot the Diono site of the Infooge LeorningCenter. The following Officers were elected lor 2OO7-2008:President: Ron Olende r, WA2HZIVice President: Bernie Ricciordi, WB2EJTTreosurer: Mott Bregoff, W2AOJSecretory: Bob Buus, W2ODlnstollotion of the Officers will toke ploce ot the onnuolowords bonquet in April.After some discussion, the Chopter decided to ioinlnfooge os o corporote sponsor for o cost of $250 peryeor. Finolly, outgoing President Bernie, WB2EJI outlinedsome neorJerm gools he would like to see for the Chopter.They include more octive recruiting for new members ondmore member involvement in our octivities of the lnfoogeLeorning Cenier.Bob Buus, W20D, SecretaryChopter 146, Twin Stote (NH)The Twin Stote Chopter olong with our sister chopter, ThePioneer Chopter, will ogoin host the New EnglondChopiers meeiing ond picnic ot Mt. Tom neor Holyoke,MA off Route 5 on July 28th, 2007. We will hove theQCWAJournal . Summer 2OO7 . www,qcwa,org

overlook ot the top of the mountoin. There is o chorge(minimol) for entronce. The time is lO:00 AM to 3:00 PM.Our Chopter will provide chorcool for this event. This willbe our 3rd yeor ond we ore proud to soy it hos been onexcellent gothering of QCWA members ond guests. Lostyeor, unfortunotely, we were olmost roined oui, but we stillheld the eveni. One of our members drove oll the woyfrom Connecticut up to Mt Tom only to find thot everyonehod left for home due to the weother. Sorry, Horold!Pleose bring your lown choirs, os seoting is limited.We will hove o common toble where you con bring omoin dish or dessert if you would like to shore. Bor-b-quepits ore ovoiloble for thot fine T-bone steok, homburger, orhotdog you moy bring. I con smell it cooking now, yumlHope to see you there!Our Chopter will hold its onnuol Spring Fling inChorlestown, NH on Rte 12, on April 29lh, 2007 ot theHeritoge Restouroni.With deepest sodness, I wish to repori thot W'lUS,Doc Robert Kelemen hos become o Silent Key. Most ofyou might know him os o big contest person. You couldfind Doc ond o lot of his friends doing mony contests fromhis home in the hills in Andover, VT. Doc hod bqttled concerfor 10 yeors, but living eoch doy for those 1O yeorswith onxiety ond curiosity befitting the PhD he held inEngineering. His smile ond loughter will be sorely missed.Resi in peoce deor friend.Don'i forget our 2 nets, one on Sundoy qi B:3OAM on3.912MH2 ond Thursdoy ot Z:OOPM on 146.76MH2, Mt.Cheryl Breuning WAIWEV Secretory fireosurerChopter 149, Nutmeg (CT)The QCWA Chopter '149 meeting wos held on Februory1O,2OO7 ot the Gothering Ploce in Wollingford, Ct. Al,Wl FXQ, colled the meeting to order ol 12:1Opm ond weoll mode sellintroductions. We hod o totol of 45 membersond guests present. We olso hod o speciol guest, ChuckWolbridge [ACWA Generol Monoger], ond his wife, Jon.Gory, K1MQ, gove the Treosurer's report. We hqve oiotol of $ 2,BBB.84 before the expenses of todoy.We hod o very nice buffet with plenty of food ondseconds if onybody wonted ii. Also doggy bogs for thosewho wonied them.Al introduced our guest speoker, Don Henry. Dontolked obout computers ond the numerous octivities ihotcqn be occomplished with the computer. He olsoonswered questions thot some members osked reordingtheir computers. Al informed us thot the QCWA Chopier,l49 Officers would remoin the some. President Al Cohen,Wl FXQ; Vice President, Mork Mokoski, Kl PU; Treosurer,Gory Awsiukiewcz, Kl MQ; Secretory, Tony Perrone,QCWAJournal . Summer 2aa7 . w\\w,qcwa,orgWl CGl. Chuck Wolbridge, Kl lGD, gove oul the Awordsof those who were present. They were: Robert Cohen,KICPJ, SO-Yeor; Eugene Dombrowik, WIQJL, SO-Yeor;Horold Chose, Wl EES, 7S-Yeor; Ed Nowolk, Wl FAJ, 75-Yeor; ond John Huntoon, Wl RW. Ed Nowolk mode somecomments obout the eorly doys of QST. We took q nicegroup picture of oll ihose who received owords withChuck. Nexi we hod the roffle, with mony nice prizes.Mony thonks to Eileen ond Gory for providing them. KoyChoffee will get the prizes for our next meeting. Monythonks to Chuck for presenting the Awords ot our meeting.The meeting odiourned ot l5O0 hrs.Iony Perrone, WlCGl, SecreloryChopter 151. Wild Rose, ALBERTAChopter l5l will hold the spring luncheon meeting,Soturdoy, April 28th, 2007 ol the Germon Conodiqn Clubin Colgory. The progrom will be o tolk by 17-yeor-oldAllison, VA6FLY who visited the Johnson Spoce Centreneor Houston Texos. lt will be entitled "Flying High". OurMoy 8th,2004, meeting feoiured o presentotion by oyoung grode 1 1 studeni, Liz Ferguson , YA6L|Z, who spentiwo weeks ot the Johnson Spoce Centre. Chopter l5'l isqlso involved with encourqging interest in spoce trovel byyouth groups in Middle Schools who study qmoteur rodioond contoct ostronouts in the lnternotionol Spoce Stotion.Chorter Member, John Erickson, VE6NB, is in the hospitolin Lethbridge hoving tests. He wos recently the recipiento[ o 7S-Yeor Service Ploque.lock Amhler, VEd,CAS, SecretaryChopter I52, Royol Polm (FL)Meeiings of th;s Chopter hqve been held eoch monthsince the Chopier Chorter wos issued in Dec. 1984.Mony members olso belong to the lorger Amoteur RodioAssociotion of Southwest Florido in Noples, FL. Efforts orebeing mode to ottroct new members os mony long-termfriends hove become Silent Keys. The fine lunch ot theFeb. Bth meeting wos followed by o presentotion of thehistory of the Morse Code which is now history os orequirement for on qmqteur rqdio license. RobertMontbriqnd, WOOB, Post Chopter President, reloted hisexperiences os o telegroph operotor working for the roilroodiust ofter leoving the Army service in WW2. Hedemonstroted operotion of his collection of roilrood telegrophequipment which is not too different from thoi usedby Somuel Morse. He sent the first messoge "Whqt hosGod Wrought" over wires from Woshington DC toBoltimore in the eorly I800s. We were mqde to under-t)tf

Pictures are current President, Don Hyer, AAIKt and past president and retiredrailroad telegrapher, Robert Montbriand, W008,stond thot the Americon Morse Code used wos differentthon the lnternotionol Morse Code we hove used. Evenmore interesting were stories of the duties of the telegrophoperotors in reloying troin schedules ond other messogesbetween stotions ond olso by monuolly possing them on tofost moving troins. They kept the roilroods operoting sofelyond efficiently. Now our Morse code hos become lorgelyobsolete by new odvoncements in communicotion. Wehope to hove more similor progrqms in the future ond qlsoottroct new members of QCWA.W, Horvay, KUIQChqpfer 154, leo Meverson (CA]At our Jonuory iuncheon, Leo Meyerson, WOGFQ, presenied7S-Yeqr ond 65-Yeor Certificqtes to John Aiton,W6HAG, ond George Underberger, W6WAS, respectively. Both of these omoteur rodio operotors hove devotedtheir professionol coreers to electronics progroms, whilecontinuing their devotion to our hobby. Congrotulotions,Leo Meyerson, W0GFQ, age 96John qnd George.Neil Mqdonick, NY6Z, presented o terrific progromobout the ontique rodio museum in Virginio City, NV. Hisexcellent photos ond descripiions revived vivid memoriesfor mony of us who hod honds-on experience wiih therodios when they were in households. Mony thonks toNeillLeonordo dq Vinci wos o truly remorkoble mon. Afterour Februory luncheon, tweniy OCWA members ondguests troveled to the Polm Springs exhibit ond wereomozed ot how mony of his ideos ore now port of oureverydoy life. Those who received free tickets hod cquseto enioy the field trip more thqn others. But oll ogreed itwos qn enlightening ond well-executed exhibit.ln ploce of our Mqrch luncheon, fifty homs ond guestsfrom oround ihe Coochello Volley helped Leo Meyerson,WOGFQ, celebrote his 96th birrhdoy. Our speciol guestwos Dick Norton, N6AA, ARRL Southwestern DivisionDirector. After o delicious chicken lunch, we song "HoppyBirthdoy", Leo cuf the coke, ond we enioyed it with icecreom. As you con see from the occomponying photo, Leohos not lost his sense of humorlGene Penlecost, W4|MT, FresidentChopter I6O, Utqh (UT)John Aiton, W6HAG; Leo Meyerson, WoGFQ; and George llnderbergef W6ltyAS.Dick Beckhom, WZFVM, received his ZO-Yeor GoldenCertificote ot the QCWA Chopier l6O's breokfost oi St.George, Utoh, on December 7, 2006. Dick wos in theNovy from l9l B to 1934; during thoi time he porticipotedin the seqrch for Amelio Eorhori.34 QCWAiournal . Summer 2aO7. w\\wqcwa,org

President, Lee Hone, K7NKH, presenting the 70-Year Golden Certiticate to DickBeckham, W7FVM.Peter Ferrand, WBZQLL Badio Station WBJN's evening radio perconality, interviewingLarry McCalvy, WA9JMo, on a live call-in program celebrating ARRL''q0-year 1 "Hello" campaign.Dick first become licensed os WZFVM in ,l936. Hisfirsi rig wqs o home-brew regenerotive receiver ond obreodboord oscillotor for o ironsmiiter. His first contoctwos from Los Angles, Coliforniq to Greqt Fqlls, Montonowith 5 wotts. Dick ottended Electricol Engineering schoolfrom l93B to .l940. ln l94O he went to work for CAA,now FAA.After WW2 broke out, Dick wos off the oir os were ollhoms ot thot time. After the wor Dick worked in the Pocificlslonds for the FAA from l960 to .l964 with collsignKH6ENA. When he returned to the Stotes he wos issuedhis old hom coll, W7FYM, which he holds ot the presenttime. Dick hos resided in St. George since I 9BO. He isoctive on 2 meters qnd HF ond qt one time wos veryoctive on .l60 meters. Dick hos hod o long qnd colorfulomoteur coreer ot oge 91.Oiher recent recipienis receiving Golden Certificqtes,were:7)-Yeor - Roy Lorsen, WZNMK60-Yeor - Keiih Anderson, WZLAU55-Yeor - Norm Priebe, WZISD50-Yeor - Jomes.Jocobs, WZDBOSO-Yeor - Boyd Thomos, KGTMPMtryellen Voughn, W 7CKD, PresidentChopter t62, Southeqsf Wisconsin (Wl)Chopter I 62 hos estoblished ond will be odminisirotingthe Spencer Clope, W9LDH, Memoriol Scholorship Fundbeginning in 2007. With the blessing ond support of theClope fomily, ihe Scholorship estoblished in Spencer'shonor by the Chopter ond substoniiolly funded from theestote sole of Spence's Amoteur Rodio equipment will beused to gront o $500 yeorly scholorship to o full+ime (12credits per semester) student who is o licensed Hom ondRon Fox, KgAKH; and Ken Knoft, NqNCB, properly adorned during Chaptet 162annual Christmas pafi.whose fomily currently resides in o County thqt one of ourmembers lives in. The scholorship will be given in Juneqfier the Commitiee selects the recipient from opplicoiionsreceived from Jonuory 1st to Moy 31 st of eoch yeor.Those eligible to opply ore High School Seniors or onyoiher licensed Hom ihot will be enrolled for ot leosi l2credits ot on occredited university or college in Septemberfollowing the owording of the scholorship gront. TheCommiitee Co-choirs ore Gory Erickson, N9GE, ond LorryMcColvy, WA9JMO. Scholorship opplicotions (writien letter)moy be emoiled to wo9imo@wi.net or moiled vioUSPS to Lorry McColvy, WASJMO, 5400 Six Mile Roqd,Rocine, Wl 53402-9741 . Addnionol informotion or clorificotionon ony ospect of the scholorship moy be obtoinedin the some monner.The Chopter Christmos porty wos held ot the MeodowsRestouront in Fronksville, Wl the first Sundoy in December.It wos o morvelous outing. About 20 of us dined, shoredwonderful thoughts of the seoson ond exchonged smollQCWAJournal . Summ-or 2Oa7 . w\\\v,qcwa,org

l,i .:'; i,...,, -,:,].,, .. ,, .gifts. Ron Fox, K9AKG, ond Ken Knoff, N9NBC oppeoredogoin with motching Christmos ties.ln the spirit of community oworeness, the AmoteurRodio Clubs in Southeostern Wisconsin ioined in the celebrotionof ARRL's 1OO-yeor onniversory of the first wirelessvoice trqnsmission of the word: HELLO. On the lostThursdoy in December, Larry McColvy, WASJMO, ioinedPeler Ferrond, WB2QLL, in the sound booth of Rocine,Rodio Stotion WUN to discuss the finer points of wirelesscommunicotion during the ,l00 yeors since the first voicemessoge wos delivered. Port of Peter's nightly rodio progromdeols with community inierests; guests ore inviied tothe studio ond/or the phone lines ore open fo collers withtheir commenis on the topics ot hond.Moy 2007 find oll of you in o very hoppy, heolthyond prosperous environment.Larry McColvy, WAqlMOChopfer 165, York CountL(PAlThe Februory 1Oth meeiing of Chopter '165 wos one ofthe best-ottended meetings in recent yeors. There were I 9members ond guests in ottendonce, We met of the Hoss'sRestouront on White Streei in York, PA.We ore continuing our membership drive by sendingletters to oll eligible homs in the York County oreo. Wehove been inviting new members to ottend our bi-monthlylunches. Three of the guests ot the Februory meeting werefrom this endeovor.After lunch ond o short business meeting, .John JominetW3HMS ,with the oid of Chorlie Heisler, K3VDB, presentedo tolk on the new 2.4 GHZ. beocon they ore puttingon the oir. John hos on existing l0 GHZ. beocon in operotion.The new 24.0,l GHZ. Beocon will hqve on outputof I wqtt into o 3 db. goin Lindenblod ontenno with o circulorrodiotion pottern.This new beocon will be locoted on o tower ot theKeystone VHF Club's repeoter tronsmitter site iust Eost ofYork Pennsylvonio.Our Chopter President Chip Morgon, N3lW, is continuinghis weekend volunieer work os o roilrood telegropherqt the Pennsylvonio Rqilrood Museum ot Strosburg PA. Wemoy hove more pictures of him ot work in the nextChopter report.We continue to hold our meetings ot the Hoss's fomilyrestourqnl ot noon time on the second Soturdoy of evennumbered months. Our meetings ore open to oll homs inthe oreo.Roy Shouh, W3AXC, SecretoryChqpter I66, Coloniol (PA)The spring meeting of Coloniol Chopter ,l66 wos hostedby Jim Fories, W3AOA. Seven members were present tofinolize plons for the Annuol Picnic which will be held otnoon l9 Moy 2OO7 ot the hilltop esiote of Woody Sbei,W3TTW. Reservotions must be received by Woody ot 287Beocon Light Rood, Porkesburg, PA ,l9365 no loter thon1 2 Moy 2007 . All interested Amoteurs ore invited toottend.Following the business meeting, President JohnChromy, K3CNl, presented q lolk on his motor home tourof Germony ond neighboring countries in the summer of2000. Tweniy motor homes porticipoted in the eventwhich covered Belgium ond Hollond to northern ltoly ondAustrio. lohn described his mony experiences ond the visitsto historic ploces. John possed oround two lorge volumesof phoiogrophs.George Godbok, WS|EV Assistonl SecretaryChopter l9O, Reno (NV)The QCWA Chopier l90 of Reno, Nevodo hod their Bimonthlymeeting qt the Block Beor Restouroni. The discussionwos whot it required io become on Amoteur RodioOperotor before the FCC ond ARRL storted odiusting thecode requirements ond the testing. The big issue woswhy drop the code requirements? Most of the membersclossified the code os one of the moior requirements tobecome on operotor, kind of like q milestone, MonyaCWA members were disoppointed in reducing ihe coderequirement from the testing ond now finolly removing therequirement for code oll together. I guess we could hovetolked obout this subiect forever qnd not reolly come toony ogreemeni. Although, there is one subiect we ollogreed on. Who will write this orticle for the aCWA? Iwos lqte so I om the one who received the honors. Othersubiects we discussed: who wos doing whot ond whotwos going on os for os contocts throughout the world. Wehove some dedicoted cw operotor in the club ond this istheir mode for DXing. Also in Reno we hove on extremelyoctive QRP club which hos mony ACWA members ondcw is the only mode of comminotions they use in mokingcontocis locol ond DX. So I guess cw still is the fovoritemode of communicotion with some of the Amoteur RodioOperotors in their senior yeors.My fovorite sublect wos whoi I got for Christmos. Mylovely wife bought me my dreom mochine, o Ten-TecOrion. I hove been on the oir qlmost every night since.First I hod to reod the monuol ond wotch the VCR topeobout 6 times. Rodio hos come o long woy since 1952.Other subiects were in regords io whot wos going on in36 QCWAJournal . Summer 2OO7 . v^/ww.qcwa.org

the repeoter world of the greoter Reno oreo. DonFreemqns wos how the QCWA hos grown; I guess there iso lot of Amoteur Rodio Operotors who hove 25 yeors plusin the sreo. I guess we ore getting old.lf I hqve to write this orticle for the Reno Chopter ofaCWA I om going to hove to set o progrom up on whotwe should review ond tolk oboui ot these meetings. Aftertolking obout the good old doys of Amoteur Rodio we ollhod o greot time eoting ond tolking with some of ourguests who ore not quite old enough to be members of theaCWA. The breokfost ended obout I l:30 A.M. We stortot l0:00 A.M. so we con sleep in on the weekends ondsneok up on the rest of ihe doy. At my oge I need oll thesleep I con get ond be somewhot owoke to ioke notes otthe nexi meeting.Going bock to December...The Quorter Century Wireless Associotion, Silver StoteChopter #190, NZQC, presented owords to seven omoteurrodio operotors oi its I3th onnuol Christmos Porty, onDecember Bth, 2006. Mox Cornell, KOMC, presented theAmoteur Rodio Operotor of ihe Yeor Aword to SieveKometz, NZKP. Steve hos ossisted virtuolly oll the qmoteurrodio orgonizotions within our community ond deservesproise for his occomplishments.Mox qlso presented owords to Gory Gront, KZVY; JoeMuncey, WTDIK; Lorry Ookley,WTAB; ond WilliomGolvez, K6ING, for being continuously licensed for 50yeors. Awords for being continuously licensed for 65yeors were presented to Gordon Horris, W7U\Z, ondRobert "Buster" Bronnin, W7TAZ.Lany 0akley, WZAB, SecretaryChopter 2O2, Old Dominion (VA)The first meeting of 2OO7 of the Old Dominion Chopter2O2 wos held in Februory ot the converted roilwoy stotion- Olde Liberty Siotion - in Bedford. After o sotisfying lunch,the meeting wos opened by President, Buddy, W4YE' Heintroduced guest, Phil Jung, K9PJ, who recently moved toFronklin County from Floridq ond is o potentiol ACWAmember.Bill, WA4BKW presenied the Chopter with its newbonner. The bonner hos been in the moking for the postseverol yeqrs. The Notionol onnounced o lock of o monufocturerond locol efforts were explored. With o new monufoctureronnounced by the Notionol Office, the bonnerwos ordered ond received in time for this meeting.This wos olso time for the onnuol Awords presentoiionsond the following were recipients:o 65-Yeor Certificote - Ken Boy, W4UQ: Ken hod recentlymoved ond the Certificote wos mqiled to him.o 65-Yeor Certificote - Gene Wqlter, W2CP - presented by(L-B) W2Cn 65 yearc; KC4D,50 years; W4YE,55 years; K2YJE,50 years; K4BSE50 years; KITT,55 years; KAUK,60 years,Stqn, K4UK.o 6O-Yeor Certificote - Ston Reos, K4UK - presented byGene, W2CP.o 60-Yeor Certificote - Vic Smith, W4AGI - presented byBuddy, W4YE.. 55-Yeqr Certificote - Horlon Miller, KITT - presented byGene, W2CP.o 55-Yeor Certificqte - Buddy Smith, W4YE - presented byGene, W2CP.o 50-Yeor Certificote - Chqrlie Beckwith, K4BSF - presentedby Bill, WA4BKW.o SO-Yeor Certificqte - Bill O'Donnell, K2YIE - presentedby Bill, WA4BKW.o SO-Yeor Certificote - Bill Perkins , KCAD - presented byBiII, WA4BKW.Eoch recipient wos given 60 seconds to tell how hegot siorted in hom rodio.Sion, K4UK, showed the G3ZQS Trophy for 2006sponsored by the FIST Club. lt wos the WARC BondChollenge in which he mode .l014 QSOs. Extro pointswere given for contocts wiih FISTS members ('lB6), ondgrid squores being one of the multipliers, totoling278,628 points. The Aword wos on engroved miniqturesilver plote in o wooden presentotion box.The next meeling will be ln Moy ond Bill, KC4D willbe hosting 7Q7DP ond ZQTYL from his trovels in Molqwi.They plon on visiting the oreq ond will be our guests forthis meeting ond plon to present o progrom. lf you wish toreference web poge for pictures it ishttp: / / www. qcwochopte r 1 9 0.or g /Bill Svec, WA4BKW Secretory /lreosurerQCWA Journal . Summer 2aO7 ' w\,\wqcwa,org 37

.. .'mffi&reffiffi'ffiw,ffi*ffieChopter 2O9, Helveiiq2006 storted sodly. Our esteemed member Henri, HB9RK,become o Silent Key on April 4. We lost o greot Hom,who did on excellent iob for the omoteur rodio community.We will never forget oll he did os o President of the USKA(Union of Swiss Short Wove Amoteurs) from 1966 to1970.The gool of this yeor's Chopter oction wos to help studentscontocting the lSS. A closs of the "Gymnoselntercontonol de lo Broye", locoted in the city of Poyerne,hod the pleosure to live on ARISS (Amoteur Rodio on thelnternotionol Spoce Stotion) QSO, ollowing students totolk with on ostronout on the lSS. Chopter President,HB9ACA, Monfred; ond Chopter Secretory, HB9BOU,Herbert, gove o hond in orgonizing this event. CloudeNicollier, first Swiss Astronout ond iust licensed osHB9CN, colled DPOISS September 22nd ot l0:40 UTCfrom the Swiss Airforce Museum in Poyerne. ThomosReiter, DF4TR, Germon Astronout, onswered loud ondcleor from the lSS. Students, teochers, homs, porents qndguests followed this interesting event. The students livedten minutes of greot intensity, speoking live with on ostronout.The Chopter donoted o NOAA meteo-receiver kii iothe closs. She integroted the building ond setup of thereceiver into her technicol preporotion for the QSO. ThisHB9BS, Max de Henseler, Helvetia Chapter f2N, President Eneritus; HB9CN,Claude Nicollief first Swiss Astronaut; HB9B0U, Herbert Aeby, Chapter # 209Secretary; HBgBol, Michel Berger, talking together after the QS0,receiver ollows now getting live NOAA pictures in theclossroom. So the students leorned obout sotellite poss prediction,rodio propogotion, wovelength, frequency,Doppler, ond of course, omoteur rodio.More info ot. http:/ /www.oriss-eu.or9/2006_09_27 .htn.Herhert Aehy, HB9BOU, SecretoryChopter 2I3. Fresno (CA)Our Chopter hos welcomed 2 new members so for in2007. Anniversory Awords were presented to the followingChopter 2.l3 members: Potrick Fennocy, W6YEP 50-Yeor; Vic Rosenthol, K2VCO, 50-Yeor; Dennis Freemon,K6YLN, 50-Yeor; Tom Holey, W6LRS, 55-Yeor; Bill Woody,W6GM, 55-Yeor; Lloyd Burns, W6SRU, 65-Yeor.Charles McConnell, W 6DPD, Secretary / IreasurerMEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUNDStudent talking with the lSS, HB9CN."NAME., ':' ':, ::IDA FUJIMOTO .,I.',:CHapTEn L8. ,:,,,,, ":,'CHAPTER 62"EDIsERuGA'''" t',:'J ERO ME,M Utt t*O',r,.., CHAPTER 108 ,,,, :,.'t:''cnnprrn tda rr :CHAPTER'I08CHAPTER 49"'cHAPtrR 49' ':l,..CHARLES FLORING -HONORING .'. 'w6czL .,K2FMB .':rr::i .r::.:: .r..rr.,l,QCWA SILENT.KElYs'K9AWC'W2JQ-5 ':':::"':'': iNTEIF ,t,1, . :,,, 'KBTJC ]'W7RQQ,r,,''-'1:' :1,:K4KAZ .W4PGI :' ::': ::::QCWA SILENT.:.KEYJ38 QCWA Journal . Summer 2aO7 . w\&\,^/ qcwa,org

The GICWA Celebrqtes its Sixtiefh Anniversaryt(qLEASE SEE THE EULL-C0L0R AD FoR THIS AWARD 0N THE INSIDE FRoNT C0VER)The 60"60 Award for 60 QSOs with OCWA Member* during';'t* t: nir }i?'V-Ytl',t ;d,41; ft el:516€3;A ta?{ :.r.t rr.{.i, 6! }a=-. -*:EI(--i- ^Gf,L.G: frt}}'[Wi.' ]&.; e'*-5l;ry ll.r'*w3BE \('"7-'\.;r'+*udds&s3) -0CtrA PRISDE\Tlg47 "v Z00ZThe Quorler Century Wireless Associotion hos ocoke in the oyen ond the ice creom churn is o-churnin' inoniicipotion of celebroiing its 60th Diomond AnniversorylTime truly does fly! lt wos whot seems like only yesterdoythot on November 14, 1947, during o lO-Meter roundtobleQSO, the suggestion wos mode to form on ossociotionof hom rodio operotors thot hod been licensed fortwentyJive yeors or more. The very next monih, with thotthought in mind, o group of homs met on Fridoy evening,December 5, 1947, in New York City. Thot evening, theQuorier Century Wireless Associqtion (aCWA) wos born.ln order to celebrote our Sixiieth Anniversory in grondstyle, the Quorier Century Wireless Associqtion is pleosedto onnounce o new limited ovoilobility, operoting Awordto celebrote this momentous occosion known os theQCWA Sixfy-Sixty Aword.This Aword is unique in thot it represents the first Aword ofits type offered by the aCWA. ln order to roise the oworenessof ond stimulote new Membership in the QCWA, theAword is ovoiloble to both Members ond non-Membersolike. The bosic requiremenls ore simple: Moke 60, twowoycontocts with 60 different ACWA Members.The QCWA Sixty-Sixty Aword become ovoilqble with itsonnouncement ot the 2007 Doylon Homvention on Moy18, 2OO7 by President John Johnston, W3BE. The finol doyfor contocts is no loter thon 2400 UTC, June 30, 2008. Allopplicotions for the Aword should be post morked no lqterthon September l, 2008.The specific Eligibility Requirements ore os follows:The opplicont must submit o list of 60 differeni two-woycontocts with QCWA Members ond their ossociotedMembership numbers.Two-woy contocts moy be mode utilizing ony RF mode ofoperotion on ony frequency outhorized for omoteur use toinclude the use of VHF/UHF repeoters.Submitted log informotion should include the time (UTC),dote of contoct, collsign, ACWA Member's nqme ond theMember's Membership number.The opplicont should include with eoch opplicotion, o stotementin his/her own words thot the contocts ore true ondcorrect ond were mode in occordonce with both the omoteurregulotory requiremenis for his country of residenceond the ACWA requirements os sei forth for the Aword.There is o fee of $Z.OO USD for oppliconts (check, cosh, ormoney order only. No credit cords or stomps ore occepted.)Aword certificotes will be grotis to stotions outsideNorih Americo but donotions to defroy postoge/hondlingwill be grotefully occepted.Appliconts ore requested io submit the requested items to:W2OD/ Robert Buus / B Donner St. /Holmdel, NJ 02233-2004 / u.s.A.Specific Aword quesiions should be directed io the oboveoddress or E-moiled to: w2od@ool.comQCWA Journal . Sunrmer 2aO7 . lu,vw.qcwa,org 39

The Passing of The Codeby Mark Cheek, AB4XBThe Augusta ARRL VETeam held its regularly scheduledtest session on February3,2007.The Augusta VE Team, withwhich I am affiliated, wasformed by Ace Norton,W4WTA, ex NA4l. Ace and Iadministered the first test conductedin GA. Ray Wyatt andAndy joined us some timelater and remained activemembers until Ray became aSilent Key and rrndy retired.Sfiortly,,after the team started,Donald Anderson, K4PSWjoined. K4PSW retired.from.test!19 wrth over 100 test sessionsto his credit. W4CDC isstill conducting test sessrons with us with overI001est sessions to his credit as w,ell.,,All ofthese men were profess,ional IMC'operators withthe US Army either teaching IMC or actually:i,i:gerving as'an operator until they retired. Becauseof the long term commitment of'thi's'group. thepassing of t,he er.a of Morse Code has not beenan'easy change to accept.Pictured i* photo of the memorial.service forThe Passing of the Code ' we held at ourSatur-dav,session. ln the prcture you will notrce amoek-Up of',the J-38 which was used in the USArmy s Communication Training facility, FortGordon in the IMC lab. The team still has thekey as a result of the late WB4OCB s efforts. TheVE holding the key is Philip Baker, AG4MP TheVE adrnin'ister:ing the last Morse Code test,rjs ,, 'William Brown, koex. The VE:stand'ing isCharlei'Cowart, W4CDC. The VE piping is MarkCheek,'AB4XB. Men present for testing areJosephStrauss,KCBIKW;Co|linHi||;StanleyMurray; and Kenneth Williams, K|4OPH.The memorial service for"The Passing of The Code,,JOIN THT AIfUAANIIOUT WIRTLISS ASSOCIATIOI{The ariginal and largest historical radia-ca[eclsr grxup. Publishes The 1ld {ime/s Stlletin, Marc Eilis, fdiior, with:- Old-1ime amatsur-radi0 c0nlests- Communicallons receivers- 8allery and AC receiver restoralion- Vacuum-tub* hislory and coliocling- Free want-sell-swap ads- [arly television- Horn loudspeakers- News oi U.S. and foreign clubs. Produce! the farno* annual Rochesler mest. Maintains unique radio-TV muscumMembership is only $:0 per ysar in the US ($25 elsewhere)Write to:Antiqre Wireloss Association, lnc. , 8ox E, Depi, 3Ereesporl, lly 1 481 6 hiip://www,antiquewireless.org4aQCWA Journal . Sumnner 2aO7 . \,\\r,vqcwa.org

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Back to the Connecticut Wireless Asso ciationA lournalistic History of The Life and Times in Amateur Radio of George Hart, W1 NJMby George Hart, Wl NJMut back to CWA. Our first two Field Days (1949 & 1950)were held at the fair grounds in Haddam Neck, Conn. Thiswas a great location, plenty of room, completely abandonedwhen we used it but full of all kinds of facilities, and therent for the weekend was reasonable in 1949. The rent jumpedto a much higher figure in 1950, so we determined to seekanother location. John Cann, WlRWS, and I were delegated tofind a good rent-free FD location. We visited several prospectivesites, none of which suited us, until we chanced on DennisHill State Park in northwestern Ccnn., not far from Norfolk(which they pronounced Norfork). I remember clearly our visitto Dennis Hill. We stopped at the ranger's house at theentrance and inquired. He was very friendly, an elderly (perhaps60) veteran with bad lungs, He freely assented to show us "thelodge" at the top of the hill. We walked up a winding gravelbut well-maintained road that spiraled up the hill through smalltrees and shrubbery (turned out to be laurel) until suddenly,making a turn near the top, the lodge' came into view. .Johnand I exchanged "this is it!" glances before we even began torealize what we were in for. The so-called lodge was a massivewooden structure of unique design with a domed top onwhich was an observation platform from which could be seenall the surrounding hills and valleys. The elevation was only1620 feet but this was higher than many of the surroundinghills. The interior contained a large circular area surrounded bya dozen or so alcoves. Our forester guide explained it wasdesigned like an English wool market. A massive fireplace dominatedan area on the inside perimeter. An ornate chandelierhung from the high cone-shaped ceiling, complete with incandescentbulbs. Through an archway into an extension off oneside was a glassed-in area with another fireplace. Our guideexplained that the lodge had been built near the turn of thecentury by a wealthy doctor whose name was Dennis, who hadused the place to entertain vrsitors and that many a "bash"had taken place on this hilltop. When the doctor died he hadwilled the property to the state, but by that time the lodge wasin bad repair. The state had improved it somewhat and openedit to the public in the daytime, but it was closed at night toprevent vandalism.When we explained to him the purpose of our visit he saidthat he didn't see any problem, he was sure he could get permissionto open the place to us for our Field Day in June (1951)but the public would have access during the day and the gatewould be locked at night. An electric line existed to the lodge,but Mr. Saunders (l just remembered his name) said it hadn'tbeen used for years and he didn't know if it was intact. I saidwe didn't really need electricity but water would be helpful.There was a kitchen in the upper reaches of the lodge with acold water tap and an outdoor faucet The kitchen was neverused but he thought there was still some gas in the propanetank and maybe we could use it. He was skeptical about theplumbing, but if we decided to use the lodge for our "picnic"he would try turning on the electricity and the kitchen stove tosee if they still worked and let us know. John and I tried toexplain what Amateur Radio Field Day was all about and hebecame very much interested, promised complete cooperationwithin his responsibilities as ranger.lohn and I reported our find at the next club meeting withenthusiasm and it was decided that a complete investigationwould take place with the arm of using the lodge for ourinstallation, with high expectancy of posting the winning scorein our class in the 1951 Field Day from atop Dennis Hill. Thiswas the beginning of a span of about 15 years when we hadField Day on Dennis Hill. The first yeal 1951,1was designatedfield day chairman with nearly dictatorial powers; but my leadershipqualities were not up to this kind of an operation. Idevised a complete organizational plan of specialized committeesin three phases. The first phase would be preparatory, thesecond phase operational, and the third phase post-FD, withcommittees and committee chairmen for each phase.Somewhere in my old CWA records I probably have a copy ofthat plan and wrll incorporate it as an appendix if I find it Butalas, the plan didn't operate as intended and our first plannedFD became as much a hodge-podge as the ones at HaddamNeck had been, if not more so. Things came up that had notbeen planned for. We milled around with indecision and confusion,we had to adopt expediencies because of failures of committeesto perform their expected functions or refusal of individualsto do things they didn t want to do. I made myselfhighly unpopular with some of the members by trying to actthe dictator they had appointed me for. Our post mortemdeclared the Field Day a limited success but we thoroughly discussedits shortcomings and started planning almost immediatelyfor our 1952 Field Day.Those first few years at Dennis Hill are memorable frommany standpoints. I have a couple of boxes of old CWArecords, most of them having to do with FD, and a thoroughresearch through them, supplemented by personal memories,would reveal many interesting incidents. I have not undertakensuch research (limitations of time and health) but would like toramble through the reaches of memory, some of it probablyinaccurate as to detail or chronology. lf I had undertaken thiswork 20 years or so ago, near the time of my retirement, Iprobably would have had the energy to do more research tosupplement and pinpoint the memories. However, I will dwellhere on a few of them.As I recall, I served as FD chairman for the first two or threeyears at Dennis Hill, during which time we had a close relationshipwith Mr. Saunders, the ranger who lived in the house atQCWA Journa . Summer 2aO7 . w\A\,^/.qcwa.org

the park entrance and through him with the State Park andForest Commission. But about the third year of our occupancyMr. Saunders passed away and the commission told us thatDennis Hill was being opened to the public and we could nolonger have exclusive occupancy on FD weekend nights. Thiswas a devastating decision, since we had become so enamoredof the place. The commission suggested several other stateparks as possible alternatives, saying it had special plans forDennis Hill and could no longer accommodate us there. So thesearch began.We finally decided on Haystack Mountain. The ranger theretold us that it was slightly higher than Dennis Hill and therewas an abandoned stone tower there that we could possiblyuse as a shelter for our equipment. We inspected the "tower,"found it so run down as to be uninhabitable even for a weekend.The ranger than suggested an abandoned NYA camp atthe foot of the mountain. There were several wooden buildings,unused for several years, but he said they were in usablecondition with a little cleaning and fixing up and offered ussome tools and whatever personal time he could spare to assistus. The latter turned out to be almost nil. The buildings wereindeed in bad repait the whole area was overgrown withweeds and saplings, but it was arguably the best of the manyother prospective sites investigated so we set to work. lt wasone of our less productive Field Days. Our club generator,which never worked really well, anyway, became totally inoperativeand we found ourselves wrthout emergency (or any otherkind) of power. We finally obtained the loan of a small portablePark Commission generator and used it for the duration of theexercise, but much operating time was lost in transporting itfrom the ranger's house to the site. The weeds growing luxuriouslythroughout the site were of the kind whose pollen I wasmost allergic to - mostly grass having grown knee-high becausethe place had received no maintenance for years. My nasal passagesclogged up tight, I sneezed continuously, my eyeswatered and filled with mucous, my head ached. As the supposed"boss" of the operation I was thus severely handicappedand of very short temper when my detailed planning was notcarried out. In the middle of Saturday night I sought relief bytaking the road to the highest point on Haystack Mountain,but the relief was minimal. Our Field Day at the Haystack locationwas so fraught with problems that we determined neverto go there again and to urgently seek permission to return toDennis HillDuring our several contacts with rangers of the ConnecticutPark and Forest Commission we received nothing but the finestcooperation and consideration. Mr. Saunders, the ranger atHaystack whose name is long forgotten, and Mr. Pilbin, theranger who replaced Saunders at Dennis Hill, were friendly andhelpful to the extreme. The bosses who sat behind desks at thecommission's offices in Hartford were somewhat short of this,but a delegation from CWA visited there during the winter toplead our case for return to Dennis Hill,This delegation was headed by John Doremus, W1EDA, oneof our newer members who made a definite impact on CWA,served as president and FD manager. John, originally from NewJersey, had taken a job as general manager of The CardwellCompany in Plainville. He was a down-to-earth electronicsgenius who had been a personal friend of mine, and my brotherEd, W3NF, since his undergraduate days at LafayetteCollege. lohn graduated from Lafayette the same year I graduatedfrom Penn State (1936). He also had a master's degree(EE) from M.l.T. As a spokesman for our cause he was all butirresistible and from a start of extreme skepticism on the partof the commission spokesman we left with provisional writtenpermission to occupy the glass-enclosed wing of the lodge forthe 24-hour period of the Field Day but not the rest of theinterior, and of course we promised to leave the premises inthe same condition in which we found it or better. When wepresented Mr. Pilbin with our written authorization he told ushe could have let us in without it, that the reason we weren'tsupposed to use the main part of the lodge was because thewood f looring was beginning to deteriorate in places. He saidhe would open the entire lodge for us. The water line from theranger's residence to the lodge had burst and was unusable,but he promised to deliver as much water as we needed inlarge sterilized Gl cans. The electric line was operative but theinterior wiring in the lodge was defective and could not beused - but this was not a problem, because we ran the entireactlvity on "emergency" power, usually a gasoline-driven generator.In later years we entered the ten-watt class and usedbatteries.Mr. Pilbin was a much younger man than Saunders hadbeen and we quickly established close rapport with him duringthe next several years of our use of Dennis Hill for our Field Dayoperations. We called him Jay (whether that was his real firstname or an initial l'm not sure) and during our FD weekendshe often helped us get set up. We suffered a few curious visitorsduring the daytime but never at night. Often during latenight hours Jay Pilbin visjted us, either to bring us supplies orto observe the operation, or both. He became very much interested,almost a part of the group and volunteered a great dealof personal help which Iam sure was far beyond his functionas ranger,The CWA Field Day operations on Dennis Hill are a majormemory of my career as an amateur radio enthusiast. NormallyI have never been afflicted by a compulsion for personalaggrandizement. My personal participation in most ARRL contestsor other competitive operations was on a token basis. ButFD was different. This was a group exercise, and in my group,the CWA, composed of many amateurs who were interested inpersonal glory, maximum effort with the objective of winningwas paramount. We conducted an intra-club competition tosatisfy the lust for personal achievement and on several occasionschallenged other clubs to compete with us. The aspect of"team effort" appealed to my competitive lnstinct, which waswhy I volunteered to be FD chairman during those several earlyyears and why I so willingly yielded the chairmanshrp in laterQOWA Journal o Summer 2Oa7 , w\\\ /,qcwa.org 45

years to members I felt could do a better job.Planning for FD was usually a major part of our semimonthlymeetings at members' homes. Every year somethingnew was tried. One thing that surfaced as far back as theHaddam Neck operations was the use of more than one transmitterin a single-transmitter entry. The rule was that entry in,for example, the single-transmitter class prohibited simultaneoustransmission by more than one transmitter. The rule, ofcourse, did not prohibit bringing more than one transmitter toFD to be used in case the primary transmitter broke down, butwas interpreted to mean that only one operating positionshould be set up and operated at a time. ln our early CWAField Days, because we had only a few operators, we operatedin the one-transmitter class and followed this interpretation ofthe rules. But then we discovered that the reason the "SouthChowder" group was beating us every year was that they weresetting up two positions and operating them simultaneously,only making sure that no two transmitters were emitting at thesame time. Thus, while operators at one position were transmitting,those at another position could be tuning for anothercontact on a different band, which contact could take placeimmediately when those at me other position were finished, atwhich time those at the first position could be 'fishing" whilethe second contact was taking place.We felt that this procedure violated the intent of the rule,but the rules committee at ARRL upheld it as within the rules.So, in a spirit of if you can't lick'em; loin 'em,' at our secondHaddam Neck Field Day we set up two complete operatingpositions and operated them in this manner. The problem thenarose as to how the operator at Position '1 would knowwhether or not the operator at Position 2 was transmitting,and vice versa. Rod Newkirk invented the "beer can" signalmethod. When one of the operators had his beer can in sight itmeant that he was transmitting, so the operator at the otherposition must only listen until the beer can was removed, atwhich time the second operator put up his beer can if he had acontact lined up. lf neither beer can was up, either operatorcould transmit. This system worked well except when one ofthe operators, in the frantic chase to make contacts, would forgetto remove his beer can when he was through transmitting,resulting in some shouting back and forth betwebn posttionsand, on several instances which were ignored, simultaneousACTffiA EC}I-FGoll $hirtwithEmbroidered LogoCotton€olyester Made by JerzeeA Golf Shirt (light gray) with a handsome repro- Nafneduction of our classic Logo in Yellow and Black.This is a prominent *ay io identify yourself as aQCWA member at meetings, hamfests and conventions,or great for wearing at your local radio GOlf Shirt SiZe (PleaSe CirCle prOper SiZe)club.The shirt has an embroidered QCWA togo andCallsmatt/ueolum/Large/xtra Large"'...' .........$28.frgpocketontheleftside.YournameandcalllJn}XLarge'".,be added to the right side. The shirt fabric is )XX Large..' $32.9A50/50 cotton/polyester blend and is made byJerzee. The price includes prepaid delivery toyour door.SIZE CONVERSIONS:34-36=Small38-40=Medium42-44=Large46 - 48 =XL50-52=XXL54-56=XXXLPRICES:XXlff Large iAvailable 0n specialorder)....... $34.frfrNumber of ShirtsTo include y0ur name and CaI1.......................$6.00per shirt.TotalAmountilnchdes shipping)Small, Medium, Large, Xtra Large $28.00XX Large $:O'OO QlarrerCenturywireiessAssn.inc. l,LlBoxi247Framingham.MA0t705-3247XXX Large $32.00 Phone:506-.105-i930 I.ax:508-405-196-i ernail: qcwagm@rcn.corrXXXX Large (special order) $34.00l1i:mePage:www.qcwa.orsName and call, per shirt $0.0046 QCWAJourna . Summer 2aO7 . w\\\,^/,qcwa,org

transmissions from both transmitters, thus violating the rule orputting us in the two-transmitter class. l, as the "Honest John"of the club, protested that we must change our entry class inview of the violations, but was laughed down by a majoritywho opined that the South Lyme group must have run into thesame problem but never changed their entry.Before our first Field Day at Dennis Hill I pondered thisquestion and devised the first device to insure that betweentwo operating positions no two of them could be transmittingsimultaneously. I am not the inventive type when it comes totechnical things, but this device was so simple that anyonecould have come up with it. lt consisted on a SPDT relay withan open contact when the relay was not energized and aclosed contact when it was. The primary operating position keywas connected to the relay coil so that when its key was closedthe primary transmitter was keyed - and of course when usingphone the contact remained closed during emission, makingoperation of the secondary transmrtter impossible. When theprimary transmitter was not being thus activated and the relaywas in the open position, then and only then could the secondarytransmitter be operated. Thus it was impossible forboth transmitters to be operated simultaneously.The only trouble with this arrangement was that the operatorat the primary position had control whenever he wanted it,while the secondary position could make contacts only whenthe primary position was not activated. Moreover, when thesecondary operator was in the middle of a contact the primaryoperator could cut him off at any time; thus some kind of signalbetween them was still necessary, and sometimes tempersflared. When John Doremus attended his first CWA Field Dayhe studied this arrangement and decided that a much moresophisticated device could be constructed making it unnecessaryto have primary and secondary positions. When he hadcompleted construction of the device he demonstrated it to us.It was a box containing a number of tubes and relays with twosets of leads coming out of it and lacks for plugging in keys ormrcrophone. Each set of leads had a terminus containing buttonsand signal lights to control two transmitters. When one ofthe transmitters was being used a signal light would so indicateat the other transmitter's terminus. All the operator had to dowas look at his signal light to see if the other position wasbeing used; if not, he could go ahead. lf so, he would have towait until the light went off. So fat this was little improvementover my primitive invention. But it had one big advantage. lfone of the operators found himself in danger of losing a contactbecause the other position was in use, he could "crash"the control line by pushing a button installed on the terminusfor this purpose.The use of this device was so successful that John builtanother one with three sets of leads, making it possible forthree complete operating positions to be used in the singletransmitter class. Because of the multiple leads coming out ofthese two boxes we called the device an "octopus." So on oneof our subsequent FD operations we decided to go into the 2-transmitter class and operate from 5 positions, using the 3-terminaloctopus on one, the two-terminal octopus on the other.John, never satisfied, even proposed to construct a four-terminaloctopus so that four operating positions could be used inthe single-transmitter class. I thought this was going too far,that use of such a device was too heavy a tax on human toleranceand temper.As it turned out, even the three-terminal octopus was toomuch for operator tolerance. lohn himself proved this in ourfirst two-transmitter five-operating-position Field Day. John wasa good CW operator, but on one of his shifts he was"crashed" by one of the other operators so many times that, ina rage, he armed himself with a pair of diagonal cutters andcut the crash ilnes on all three leads of the octopus he was on.During the post mortem of that FD, which was not one of ourbest, we kidded him about it and he ruefully admitted he hadlost his temper when one of the other operators crashed himrepeatedly when he was in the middle of a contact. The threetransmitteroctopus was never again used on three transmitters,but it worked just as well on two transmitters by leavingone of the control lines vacant, and on subsequent FD's wemade out very well with the two 2-transmitter octopuses(octopi?).John then proposed to work on a device that would permitoperation of any number of transmitters in a single-transmitterclass by interrupting each signal at such a high audio frequencythat the ripple effect on the signal would hardly be noticed,but that technically no two of the emitted signals would be onthe air at the same time. He insisted that theoretically this waspossible and he wanted to prove it was practical as well. Hereagain I felt that such a practice, even if possible, was contraryto the intent of the rules, and he reluctantly agreed with meand never started building it. But John Doremus was a veritabledynamo of energy. Coupled with his genius, this made himvery much man. From GM at Cardwell he went on to severalother executive positions, even owned one electronics companyby buying it after he had rescued it from bankruptcy. At onetime he bought an old bus and made it rnto a family camper,brought it to one of our Field Days after he had leftConnecticut. At one of his residences in New Jersey he installedseveral thousands of dollars worth of surplus WWll equipment,installed it in an outbuilding, modernized it, then operated itonly for a few weeks before becoming involved in an entirelydifferent venture. His wife. Dotty, was as much an innovator ashe was, and together they made quite a pair. They had twochildren named Jack and Jill, both of whom at a very early ageshowed many of their parents' characteristics. Be ng a very partialto little girls, I remember one time while riding in John'scamper with his family, Jill climbed on my lap, snuggled downand went to sleep. She was about three years old. Prior to thatshe had hardly taken notice of me, and when I expressed surpriseher mother told me that Jill, when she got sleepy, simplyappropriated the nearest lap. "Don't all chlldren do that?"John also flew his own airplane, crash landed in West Virginiain a storm, escaped with relatively minor injuries but one of hispassengers, a close friend, was killed. For a while, although thecrash was not entirely his fault, it dimmed his energy, but notfor long. However, his boundless pace of life finally caught upwith him and he died at a relatively early age. l'll never forgetJohn Doremus.In the next installment, George continues with his FDexperiences and a trip to the "Arizona Amateur RadioClub of Phoenix".QCWA Journa . Summer 2aO7 o \,\,\ \ /,qcwa.org 47

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-GEEKS- A Chapterized Book About Growing lJp As a Kid Ham in "da Big Apple"By: Bill Pasternak, WA5ITFEdited By: Lou Ann Keogh, KB6HPRACES and Those Warm SPring NightsWhen I first took to the airwaves, I was typical of mostnewbies. I wanted to be part of everything. I wanted totry everything and lwanted to join everything. So tt wasthat I quickly signed up as a member of both our areaAREC and RACES operattons. RACES was particularlyinteresting because it gave a ham a separate and quasisecretIdentrty. These were the days of the Cold War.Nuclear annihilation was openly talked about by thepoliticos of the era. And back in the late '50s to be aRACES member in the city of New York meant keepingyour RACES identity secret, except for one hour a weekduring approved drills.When looked at by todays standards, the whole thingwas quite asinine. You joined RACES to become anunpaid public servant. ln exchange you were given aNew York City 'RACES lD Number,' but you could nottell anyone that number belonged to you for fear thatsome spy from the Soviet Union might frnd out.Never mind that no self-respecting spy would be tnterestedin a bunch of kids and old men with nothing betterto do than play with radios" And, I guess nobody inthe chain of command gave thought that even a 7 wattsix meter transmitter corrld be heard on television sets asfar as several mrles away. No. the cloak of silence was inplace and it was the sworn duty of us RACES operatorsto defend the secrecy of our numbered identification toour last breath.ln those days, New York City RACES operated under thecallsign W2NEM. I have no idea whose call that was. All Icared about was that from B to 9 PM EST every Thursdaynight my name and my FCC issued WA2HVK call sign disappearedas I took on the identity of W2NEM 219. For 60minutes each week I was a defender of America with mytwenty dollar ham radio station. Each practice message,was sent word by word, each word repeated two or threetimes. ln my heart I knew I was definitely holding backthe flow of communism and would keep it from everreaching our shore. Then came reality spelled T-V-1.Let's call my first TVI complainant Miss Betty. Betty wasabout 36 years old and a spinster. lf memory serves mecorrectly, she was one of ihose people who did not interfacevery well with the rest of our block's mini-society.While she had grown up in the sarne apartment whereshe still lived, Betty was kind of an enigma to the rest ofus. All we knew is that she lived with her mother andwent to college.It was about B:15 on a spring evening. I was.lust finishingup my RACES practice message of the week when thephone rang. My mother said it was our neighbor, MissBetty. 5he was calling to complain that I was interferingwrth her TV set on channel 2. ltold mom to tell Bettythat I was completing my RACES net commitment andwould not be transmttting agarn until after the 1 1 PMnews was over. I figured that would be that. I always keptmy part of the bargain, except when DX was in'By way of historical note, on school days, I would operateOCWA Journal' Summer 2aO7' w\ /wqcwa org49

"CyEE($t'The variation came on.weekends Like'miast:teenage hams, I would,,tuy4,ofi ffiy rig as soonas I woke up and it would remain on, tuned toour local calllng frequency,:af '50.4 MHz. On ,Fr.iday ai;hd.::,Sai.turdaSr.thait:rnight be as late as 4or 5 AM thiie foitowing morning. Not that t waion the air all the time.in the afternoon, do my homevuork and I alwayswatched the 1'l pm local news on WNBC. Then lwouldgo on the air for a half hour and then go to sleep. Forabout two years, you could set your watch by my onthe-airoperating schedule.The variation came on weekends. Like most teenagehams, I would turn on my rig as soon as I woke up andit would remain on, tuned to our local calling frequencyof 50.4 MHz. On Friday and Saturday that might be aslate as 4 or 5 AM the following morning. Not that I wason the air all that time. Rather, the radio was my intercomto my friends and we wouid mainly start chattingafter prime-time television ended and continue until wepassed out from sheer exhaustion.And so it was on a Sunday afternoon a few weeks laterthat Miss Betty approached me and my father as he, hisfriend Charlie, and l, were sitting out on the stoop infront of our house. She was obviously more than lust abit annoyed at something. We were all about to learnthe extent of the chip she was carrying on her shoulder."Mr. Pasternak," she said to dad. "Last night at 3 AM Iwas trying to watch a rnovie on Channel 3 fromPhiladelphia and every two minutes your son's radio stationcaused the picture to get botched up and the soundwent crazyl What are you going to do about it?"It/ly father stood there for a moment; eye to eye withMiss Betty. He then looked over to Charlie, then to me.and back to Mrss Betty" Then, with a strange smile on hisface that I had never seen before (and never saw afterwardeither) he uttered a single sentence:"Betty, at 3 o'clock in the morning lcan think of a moreenjoyable thing that a pretty woman like you could bedoing than trying to watch an old movie fromPhiladelphia. "I was still not worldly enough to understand the inferenceof my fathers statement. I do know that MissBetty's face turned bright red and she looked as if shewould have killed all of us on the spot; if she wouldhave had a viable weapon with her. Suddenly, like a soldierin basic training, she did an about-face andmarched off.ln the remaining years that lwas still living at my parentshome and operating 6 meter AM, none of us evei againsaw Miss Betty. Nor did I ever get another TVI complaintfi'om her.Sally and the Day I Blew Out NYAs noted previously, when I was first licensed asWA2HVK in 1959,1 immediately plunged myself headfirstinto AREC the ARRLs Amateur Radio Ernergency-Corps (the predecessor of todayb ARES) and New yorkCity RACES. ln RACES I held the "tactical callsign",W2NEM-219.Being on 6 meter AIV1, it was one way to justify knockingout many neighborhood TV sets with TVI generatedby my unshielded home-brew transmitter. At least that'sthe way a teenage ham would think. I could always tella complaining neighbor. "..well I am doing it to helpprotect you in case there ever is an atomic bombattack!" Remember, this was the height of the "ColdWar. "But like everything else, my interest in this aspect of thehobby began to disappear as other areas of interest tookup my time. ln the intervening years I grew out of myteens, bought my first brand-new car and went intobusiness with a non-ham named Bob Sarrett in a televisionrepair shop located in Washington Heights area ofNew York. ln fact, it was not until the night of the"Great Northeast Blackout" that I once again checkedinto the Kings County AREC and CD Net.For those of you not familiar with New York City,Washington Heights is the area near the GeorgeWashington Bridge on Manhattans' upper west side.And at about 5 pm on November 9,1965,1was alonein the store trying to repair a Granco FM table radio, andhaving little success. Each time I thought I had its drift50 QCWAJoL.;rnal . Summe[ 2OO7 . ww\ /qcwa,org

"CrEE($ttproblem licked, off it would wander up the band. I hadchanged every resistor and capacitor more than once.The oscillator-mixer tube was replaced at least a dozentimes. I had spent so many hours on it that my frustrationwas showing when little Sally wandered in to say:" hello. "I never did know her last name or if I did I have forgottenit.-She was a very cute neighborhood sixteen yearold that had a passing interest in electronics. She wasalso more than willing to go out and do lunch and supperfood runs for Bob and me when we were stayinglate or working a weekend. She was one of the nicestyoungsters I had ever met and always felt that this kidwas a tribute to the way her mom and dad were bringingher up.With nobody on the repeater at that early a.m.houn I tuned in to the "Coast to Coast AM'l programhosted by Art Bett (W6OBB) on KAB:C tofind his guest talking about the event. And inshort order I "learned" that at about the samemoment the lights began to dim all across theNorth-Eastern United Sfates a ttFO was seenSo it was that as Sally asked what I was workrng on. Itold her about the wandering Granco receiver. As I did. Ishoved it a bit too hard in her direction. One of the testleads from my multi-meter shorted out and sparks fleweverywhere. The lights in the store dimmed indicating ashort circuit so lquickly pulled the plug from the wall.But the lights kept getting dimmer. Then they wouldbrighten for a few seconds and grow even dimmer.Thats when Sally noted that the neon signs on some ofthe adlacent stores were blinking out.Sally and I rushed outsrde onto Broadway. We watchedin horror as the lights in store windows; in apartmentsabove stores; as traffic signals and street lights alldimmed and extinguished.Being a radio and tv repair shop, I ran inside andgrabbed one of the battery-operated AM sets. Sally andI scanned the band, but there was nothing but weak signalsfrom far away. The kind you hear on the AM bandas dusk approaches but you are not yet into gray-linepropagation. Too weak to be readable, but you knowsomething is there. Most evrdent was the lack of localstations. The AM broadcast band was dead.home up the l-405 Freeway in Los Angeles that I foundout the "real cause" of the "Great Northeast Blackout."With nobody on the repeater at that early a.m. hour, Ituned in to the "Coast to Coast AM" program hostedby Art Bell, W6OBB, on KABC to find his guest talkingabout the event. And in short order, I "learned" that atabout the same moment the lights began to dim allacross the North-Eastern United States, a UFO was seen- or at least reported to have been seen - hoveringover the Sir Adam Beck # 2 Electric Generating Stationat Niagara Falls, New York. This supposedly caused a"super power relay" to trip, shut-down the plant andcreated a ripple effect throughout the entire power gridaccording to the "expert."I thought to myself : "Well, that's as good an explanationas any of the others I had heard. At least it wasn't myfault after all."Ithen said out loud: "5ally, are you listening to thistoo7 "de WASITF"Oh my God, lsaid out loud. "l've just blown out all ofNew York Cityl"The charming Sally was not smiling. She seemed asfrightened as almost everyone we saw passing alongupper Broadway.Epilogue: lt was not until the middle 1990's, drivingQCWA Journa . Sunrrner 2OO7 . w\Ar,v qcwa,org 51

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