CHANGE SEBVICE REOUESI ED ASHLAND, MA PEBMIT NO.7

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Chapter 70 table at the September 2009 ottawa Amateur Badio Club Hamfest.
Standing L-B: Chaptet 70 Director, Dick Bonnycastle, VEJFUA, and Past
Prcsident, Dave Parks, VE3AV. Seated in the foreground L-R: Secretary, Ken
Pulter, VE3PU, Directot; Bichard Ferch, VESKI and former QCWA President, Croft
Taylor, VESCI
the onnuol Otiowo Amoteur Rodio Club Homfest which
tokes ploce ot Comp Ontqrio neor Ottowo. The event wos
very successful ond in oddition to publicizing QCWA, the
chopter sold severol pieces of donoted equipment.
ln oddition to our well-ottended weekly breokfosts ot
Summerhoys restouroni, Chopter ZO held o quorterly dinner
meeting on September l5th. Following the dinner,
member Borry Crompion, VE3BSB, gove o lively
PowerPoint presentotion eniitled "Amoteur Rodio Journeys
to the Edge of Spoce". Borry described severol high oltitude
bolloon flights orgonized by o group of rodio omoteurs,
students, ond other interested residents of the Perth
Ontorio oreo, who hove built ond lounched severol helium
filled bolloons corrying poyloods composed of APRS
equipment ond of times o comero. The bolloons, lounched
from Perth, hove climbed to os hlgh os 122,O00 feet, ond
londed os for owoy qs eostern Moine.
This yeor, our executive decided to updote the Chopter
ZO history which covered the period 1974 to 2000.
Foced with ropidly increosing publicotion costs, the
executive decided to odopt o revolutionory opprooch,
ond to mointoin o continuously updoted history on the
chopter web site. Director Doug Leoch, VE3XK who looks
ofter the web site, hos olso token on the duties of chopter
historion.
During the quorter, Chopter Z0 welcomed two new
members, PeterJogo VA3PJ, ond Arnold Vondenbelt,
VA3lEE. Sodly, in August, member Ken Willing VE3CV
become o silent key. Licensed since I953, Ken wos one
of the first locol omoteurs to befriend me when I first
moved to Ottowo in 1954.
Ken Pulfer, VEIPU, Seuetory
Chqpter 76, Blue Ridge, (NC)
It's officiolly foll ond if you hodn't noticed, ihe doys ore
definitely growing shorter. When I wos o kid, foll wos
morked by the pervosive smell of burning leoves. Time
moves on ond the smell of burning leoves is now pretty
much o thing of the post .... worries obout ecologicol
impoct (moinly by everyone else), burn permits ond oll
thot stuff. Todoy, the BIG reminder of the foll seqson is our
3rd Quorter estimoted iox poyments! With eoch possing
yeor, I reolize more ond more thot oging is not o lineor
function. Enough .... let's move on to the chopter octiviiies.
For our July meeting, we obtoined onother DVD from the
Northern Colifornio DX Foundotion librory, ihis time,
A52A.... Bhuton for those of you who don't chose DX.
Another well-done, professionol video by Jomes Brooks,
9YlYC. Mony Dxpedition videos opprooch home videos
in quolity butJomes includes o bit of trovelog which odds
consideroble interest. lf you borrow o video from the
NCDXF librory, look for one by Jqmes Brooks.
ln August, Joe Goult, W4WZ ond Glen Forr, N4AK
treoted us to o few lessons on resioring "boot onchors"
thot mony of us owned ond deorly loved (if we loved them
so much, why don't we still hove them)? As o motter of
foct, I DO hove qn S-38 thot wos my very first receiver. I
remember troveling to Conol Street to buy the thing - o 12yeor
old kid, olone - with the purchose money corefully
pinned under my shirt by o coutious motherl Anyhow,
some of the chopter members took the restorotion lessons
to heort, bought o few gems ot locol homfesis ond will be
bringing them bock to life in the coming months.
Finolly, September. I don't know how mony people in
OCWA ore owore of the "Hom Rodio Promotion Proiect",
o loint effort of the lndion Hills Rodio Club ond OCWA
Chopter I (The "push" behind this is Dee Logon, Wl HEO
who deserves o lot of credit). Anyhow, I bought the DVD,
showed it to the chopter. ond ofter seeing it (very well
done, by the woy), we voted to ioin other rodio clubs
ocross the couniry in this worthy hom rodio promo effort.
Check out http:/ /www.neohom.org for the full story. lt's
our hobby... if we don't promote it, who will?
As on extro for the chopter members, our president, Al
Smith, N4ZA, orronged o visit ond guided lour to
NOAA's Meteorologicol Dqto Center in Asheville, NC.
Fourteen members, XYLs ond friends mode the trip ond
whot we found wos o myriod of in-depth weother doto
from stotions oround the world oll gothered in one ploce
ond in one dotobose. ln oddition to receiving doily compuierized
doio, the Doto Center mointoins o vost omounf
of old poper records, one doy to be scqnned, digitized
ond entered into the dotobose; hond written logs in
Joponese from the 40's owoit tronslotion; old records from
24 QCWA Journal . Winter 2OO9 . wwwqcwa,org