[MCARC] WØDOD callsign

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2025 17 Oct 12:57 -0500, Dave Crawford wrote:
> Years ago there were three amateur radio clubs in the area, Blue
> Valley Repeater Association (Greenleaf Repeater), Marshall County
> Amateur Radio Repeater Association, and Marshall County Amateur Radio
> Club.  The BVRA disbanded and MCARRA merged with MCARC.
> 
> MCARRA originally had the callsign KCØRJO and later got the WØDOD
> vanity callsign.  MCARC originally had the callsign KBØTRG and later
> the WØGCJ vanity call sign.  WØDOD was Bill Hamel’s callsign and WØGCJ
> was Earnie Wolf’s callsign.
> 
> I am the trustee for the WØDOD callsign.  I did not realize it under a
> month or so ago, but the license for WØDOD expired in February of
> 2024.  Renewing the license requires my signature as trustee along
> with an officer of the club. I am not sure who the officers would be.

If memory serves, I was president of MCARRA at the time of the merger.
It's been some years.

> I liked getting the WØDOD callsign for Field Day.  We tried that once
> and it didn’t work as nicely as we might have thought it would.  We
> then started using the WØGCJ callsign for field day.

"Depart of Defense" wasn't as attractive as we thought it would be. 😂

Now it's the Department of War.

> My own opinion is let the WØDOD callsign lapse.  I can’t see us ever
> using it again for field day and someone with the initials of DOD
> might be happy to get it.

Given that MCARRA no longer exists in any separate form, letting it go
is proper thing to do.

> If there is an interest in having a meeting, it might be nice to have
> a program.  Our recent conversation about logging programs, etc. might
> be a good topic but would probably require a location with internet.

It would be good to have meetings again.  I'm unable to provide any
useful information regarding MacOS loggers, however, or MS Windows
loggers either.

73, Nate

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