[CVCC] Fill in of History

[togburn at comcast.net]

I still have some of my old newsletters I wrote over the years, and a number of photos. I'll try to dig up some more stuff from the newsletters and scan some of the photos for emailing around.
I had all of the old club records up until about a year or so ago. Bob, 'MYA, I think I dropped them off to you when I brought some computers up there a while back. We used to keep our contest scores in big notebooks, along with some memorabilia. Maybe I gave them to DR - I can't remember nuttin' these days.
Ronnie, WU4G, put together some club history and scores from CQ and QST a few years back. He still might have that, or I may have a copy in my archives.
KG4W used to describe his trips out to KX4S and W4DR as a "10 McNugget" trip from Glen Allen to Powhatan.
Harry always had a hard time trying to keep his girlfriends straight!

Tom


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From: "J Robert Eshleman" <w4dr at mindspring.com> 

> Ed Burkhart was W4LDF. Another early club member was Tomy Toms W4DSW later 
> W4IQ. The farm we went to in Goochland for FD belonged to Jimmy Pearsall who 
> eventually got a Tech license. I don't remember his call. Another active 
> member of the early CVCC was Alex Clarke whose call was K4JYM. Alex was a 
> faculty member in the Biomedical Dept at MCV and I would sometimes visit him 
> over noon Charlie Taylor, NK4J was active as was Mel Manning WB3D (now in 
> Florida) For several years the club divided into two multi-multi teams for the 
> ARRL DX Phone Contest, KX4S and W4DR. Even though we were only 2 miles apart 
> this worked well and the scores were very close...less than 100K in 3+M. During 
> those years we always won the Small Club Gavel and as I reall the DR team won 
> the intraclub competition. Bud Block (K4AUL) was not our biggest contest 
> scorer, but his wife Cecle set the best table. Meetings were always in homes 
> and the host/hostess provided the refreshments which were frequently elaborate. 
> Oh yes another memory was Harry, K4GFH a single bachelor. Harry invited his 
> dates out to the farm to observe FD, but one year got his schedule mixed up and 
> had two girls arrive at the same time. Neither one was pleased! Jimmy P had a 
> 75 foot crankup tower mounted on a trailor so we usually had pretty good 
> antennas for our FD operations. As you can see the CVCC has a glorious history! 
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