CHANGE SEBVICE REOUESI ED ASHLAND, MA PEBMIT NO.7

f;HAHTEH reports
Another long time Chopter member, Jockie Olsen,
KSENU, won both the preregistrotion ond grond prizes ot
the swop meet. Our second drowing, o Doiwo, ,l.5 KW
P.E.P. Wottmeter, wos won by Wode Horris, KF5lF. We
hod over 45 in ottendonce, so oll-in-oll, Chopter 63 is still
on the rise. Others, who were ot the meeting, hod mony
questions; ond severol were "chomping ot the bit" to ioin
QCWA, but locked 1 or 2 yeors meeting the requirements.
Whot o deoll
Vol Erwin, W5PUI ond Don Shelton, K5OK, did o fontostic
iob with their presentotion of VolB ECHOLINK, ond
aSONET.NET. This wos o new concept for mony, ond it
truly "rocked the boot" for oll of us with o grond finole - o
QSO with OCWA Notionol President Bob Roske, N0UF -
old ond new olike were totolly omozed with the presentotion!
My son, Jim, wos there ond now he con hordly woit
to get his license. As he put it, "l wished I hod become o
hom like you did Dod, o long time ogol"
So in closing, I om ever so groteful to oll of you who
helped out to moke this the BEST convention ond meeiing
in o long time. lf we begin to stort plonning noq we con
"hit o home run" Chopter 63 meeting ond Stote-Wide
aCWA convention next yeor. Moybe if your schedule permits,
you could drop by next yeor.
Dn SkipAmis, NSCFIIL President
Chqpter 64, El Poso (TX)
Howdy from Chopter 64 in El Poso, TX ond southern NM
where the oromo of roosted green chili fills the qir os I
write this in September! Welcome to our newest chopter
member Al Veed, KMSMB, from Alomogordo, NM. Al is o
regulor check-in to our Soturdoy morning net ond ottends
our monthly luncheon meetings olong with fomily members
from New Mexico. I suspect we will see odditionol chopter
members from Alomogordo very soon! Al recently
received his QCWA 55th Anniversory Aword.
Congrotulotions ond welcome to our chopter Al ond fomilvl
Other chopter news include presentotion of QCWA 55th
Anniversory Awords to Dorothy, WOSWK; ond Deon
Figgins, WAZEPU, from Los Cruces, NM, by Secretory-
Treosurer, Monny Gonzoles, W2BF|. Deon is oworded
posthumously os his key is silent this post summer.
Welcome bock to our Soturdoy morning net post
President, Director, ond current Vice-President Bob,
Corroll, K5lE. Bob recently instolled his Z5M ontenno ot
his current QTH ond fired up his Kenwood TS-440S. We
ore glod to heor Bob's strong signol bock on the oir.
Good iob Bob!
Our Chopter hqs o monthly luncheon meeiing ot Furr's
Cofeterio locoted in the Sunrise Shopping Center in
Manny, WZBFI (B), welcomes Al, KM,MB, to the chapter.
Manny, W2BFI (R), presents 55th Annive$ary Awards to Dorothy, K0SWK and
Dean Figgins, (WA7EPU, SK).
Noriheost El Poso on the third Soturdoy of eoch month ot
I l:30 locol. We olso enloy o weekly net on Soturdoys ot
08:30 locol mountoin time on 3.933KH2. Net control
operotors vory using our chopter stotion coll W5RO. OutofJown
check-ins ore especiolly welcome! Adios omigos,
be well ond God blessl
Rick RumhouglT W1P\E, Choper Director
Chopter 65, Niogoro Frontier (NY)
We were quite shocked to see one of our members, Gory
Sixt, KB2AK, listed in the Silent Keys column of QST mogozine.
We hoven't heord from him for severol months but
we were owore thot he hod some heolth problems, which
he preferred to keep privote. He wos o foirly relioble
check-in to our weekly 7S-meter net. None of our members
ever met him, ond he never ottended ony of our gettogethers,
but he certoinly wos o friendly ond interesting
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