[Hallicrafters] A SK List, Maybe?

[Ian Webb]

I make a point of scanning the large number of obituaries in the San Jose
Mercury News and pick out any hams I recognize or any others that catch my
eye.  Once in a while I find ham radio as something that the person was
involved in and am frustrated that I can't find them in QRZ since they've
let their license expire.

I sometimes even catch an article about somebody who may have been a fairly
high profile recognizable local who is or was a ham.

I cross check using QRZ.com and find the obituary on the Internet and send
the link to that information and the QRZ info to sk at arrl.net.

Otherwise I know that often the license stays "active" until it isn't
renewed several years later and those who try to contact that person are
left "wondering".

The League used to send me an acknowledgement but that stopped a couple of
year or 2 ago and now it's like sending the information to a black hole.

Sort of annoying that they can't at least reply and say THANK YOU it will
appear in the SK list in a future issue of QST.

We will all be SK someday and each year that time comes closer.   It's be
nice to know that the info would be spread via QST for those with whom we
don't have close contact but whom we knew.

Ian, K6SDE

-----Original Message-----
From: hallicrafters-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:hallicrafters-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ralph
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 10:24 AM
To: Duane Fischer, W8DBF; hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] A SK List, Maybe?

Duane,
Our ham club, www.k8qik.org , does that on our web site. It, of course, only
lists club members but it is a ince respectful thing we can do.
Best regards,
Ralph Howes
W8BVH
his email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html