[InHam] FWD: INARRL BULLETIN 086-2002 from KA9QWC

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INARRL BULLETIN 086-2002

12:45 PM 11/11/02 DE KA9QWC

SUBJECT: WHITLEY COUNTY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB (WCARC) NOVEMBER
PROGRAM

            YOU ALL ARE WELCOME

The WCARC will meet this coming Thursday, November 14, 2002 in
the basement of the Whitley County Jail in Columbia City, Indiana
at 7 PM local time.

Our guest speaker for the evening will be Philip M. Taylor,
W0LJL.

Phil Taylor grew up in the railroad town of Topeka, Kansas. He
has been around trains most of his life.

As a teenager he learned train photography from William A.
Gibson, a noted railroad photographer in the area, and began
taking train pictures.

He later started college, but left to work for the Santa Fe
Railroad as a Locomotive Fireman, the first step to becoming an
Engineer.

After the railroads eliminated firemen on diesel locomotives in
1964, he returned to school to become another type of engineer.
He is currently a Senior Engineer in optics at Raytheon.

Phil is on the Board of Directors of the Three Rivers Railroad
Heritage Council, in Fort Wayne and still takes an occasional
train picture.

At the urging of K3DCK, Phil recently got his Technician license
and adopted his fathers long time call of W0LJL, through the
vanity call program. He has passed the written test for his
General Class and is hoping to pass his code soon.

His presentation will be entitled "Not So Long ago and Not So Far
Away" and will be about his experiences as a young photographer
documenting the last days of mainline steam locomotives and early
diesel locomotives.
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Anyone needing directions to Columbia City or the meeting area
you can contact me or any of of WCARC officers at our web page
site of http://wcarc.org/ and besides you can also view our mug
shots.
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I think the railroad past and present depending upon your era
has to bring back memories that register as part of our American
history and way of life. For us old timers it is a memory that is
slipping away, but these events sure can revive some of the past
we can enjoy.
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Say amateurs, you got any news for the INARRL BULLETIN
MANAGER? I am always looking for news/events and what
is going on in your area of our Hoosier state, it is
easy to find me!

packet   = KA9QWC@KF9UG.#NIN.IN.USA.NOAM
EMAIL    = don39@whitleynet.org
         = ka9qwc@arrl.net
Tel      = 219-723-4793, answering machine is on if I'm
  out...on the farm.
HF radio = I am usually on our Indiana Traffic Net
           (ITN) on a daily basis in the mornings.
           3.910 MHZ 08:30 local time, also sometimes
           on the 1630 & 1800 sessions. I frequently
           get on both Indiana QIN CW nets on 3.656 at
           09:30 AM, 7 PM and the Indiana Code Net
           (ICN) on 3.705 MHZ at 6:15 PM.

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