[MCARC] [Fwd: Next Midwest Division Newsletter]

[Nate Bargmann]

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Date: Thu,  8 Dec 2022 18:27:27 -0500 (EST)
From: ARRL Members Only Web site <memberlist at arrl.org>
To: n0nb at n0nb.us
Subject: Next Midwest Division Newsletter

ARRL business has kept me very busy over the past 6 weeks or so.  As you
may know, I head the Ethics and Elections Committee (E&E) this year.  We
had some ethical issues to deal with.  We also had a successful
Southeastern Division election using online and paper ballots. As the
chair of E&E, I travelled to Election Services Company in Melville,
N.Y., to certify the election. Over 3/4 of the votes were online. 
That's an important step.  If we can avoid mailing and handling paper
ballots, the League will save literally tens of thousands of dollars for
each election.  

It's past time for me to ask for inputs for our next Division
newsletter.  At the suggestion of John Flint, KAØLDB, I would like to
ask you to take a look at your collections of QSL cards.  Select your
favorite based on the oldest, the best DX, the best artwork, most
sentimental, or some other reason.  Please scan that QSL card (or take a
good picture of it) and send the image to me along with a short
paragraph about why you picked it.

In addition, I'd also like to solicit your favorite personal experience
that showed how ham radio helped a non-ham in an emergency or otherwise,
your favorite interaction with another ham on the air, or a recognition
of the person or persons who helped you get started in and stay active
in ham radio.  If you have a particularly funny amateur radio story,
that would work, too.

Hopefully I will get enough submissions that we can spread them over a
couple of issues.

Today is bittersweet for me.  My wife and I lost our daughter in a car
crash 3 years ago.  Today would have been her 49th birthday.  There are
many memories.  As I write this, I remembered the time when she was
maybe 3.  We were driving somewhere, and I was talking to someone on the
local repeater.  She suddenly said "I get it.  Your voice is coming out
of a box in his car!"  She felt the magic.

This the time of year to think of family and to enjoy the holiday
season.  Whatever holiday you celebrate, I wish you and yours all the
best.  I also hope that you and yours will have a wonderful New Year. 
And, of course, I wish you good dx!

73, Art KØAIZ

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ARRL Midwest Division
Director: Arthur I Zygielbaum, K0AIZ
k0aiz at arrl.org
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