[Qcwa] QCWA Vic Clark Chapter 91 website updated

[Dick Rucker]

Our web site was updated this evening.  Point your browser to:

   http://homepage.mac.com/rrucker/chapter91.html

If you see something in error or that could be improved, please let me know.
It's easy enough to make changes if I know about them.

Dick Rucker, KM4ML
QCWA Chapter 91 Secretary

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The following new items were added:
      
To the main page:  
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1. February 29, 2004: Chapter 91 flies its Banner at the Vienna Winterfest

 The Vienna Wireless Society (VWS) held its Winterfest again this year in
the gym of the Ernst Community Cultural Center on the campus of the Northern
Virginia Community College (NVCC) in Annandale, VA. Chapter 91 was there
again in force...  

New photo album for this event is here:

       http://homepage.mac.com/rrucker/PhotoAlbum38.html


2. February 24, 2004: "Con" Concannon, K4RQ, celebrates his 98th birthday

Con, two of his friends, and I had an enjoyable dinner together on this date
to celebrate the 98th anniversary of his birth on March 19, 1906...


3. February 21, 2004: Tour of WETA's facilities in Shirlington, VA

We met in the lobby of WETA, the "leading public broadcasting station in the
nation's capital" with offices and studios located in Shirlington, VA. Ed
Kennedy, a senior engineer for the TV side, and Charles Lawson, a senior
recording engineer for the FM side, took turns showing us their respective
facilities...  

Three new photo albums covering this event are here:

   http://homepage.mac.com/rrucker/PhotoAlbum41.html (FM studios)

   http://homepage.mac.com/rrucker/PhotoAlbum42.html (TV control rooms)

   http://homepage.mac.com/rrucker/PhotoAlbum43.html (TV production)


4. February 15, 2004: Leland Smith, Sr., W5KL, becomes a Silent Key

Leland was a well-known amateur radio operator with a "good fist," as well
as a former President of QCWA, Inc., and, until his death, Chairman of
QCWA's Scholarship Fund...

Looking through Chapter 91's files, I found the following undated and
unsigned introduction of Leland typed on yellowing paper. On the back are a
few handwritten notes including one that says "Johnny Johnson, W3BE, won the
FT23R" ...


To the updates section:
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1. Frank Haynes, W4NUA, provided a CD with photos he took on our trip to the
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, WV, last October.
The best of these can be found at

           http://homepage.mac.com/rrucker/PhotoAlbum39.html


It also contained photos he took during our Holiday Luncheon at the Marco
Polo Restaurant in Vienna, VA, last December. The best of these can be found
at
           http://homepage.mac.com/rrucker/PhotoAlbum40.html


 2. Lew Paterson sent an email about one of the photos from our tour of the
Historical Electronics Museum near BWI airport, March 2002.   Lew wrote:
"The image labeled 'pave mover' isn't. This is the E-3 AWACS antenna. The
pave mover antenna is rectangular, about 112x200 slots."

Lew was kind enough to send a picture of the Pave Mover antenna taken when
he visited the museum a few years ago. I also found a picture I had taken of
the on-the-wall description of the pave mover. These have been added at the
end of the photo album at

          http://homepage.mac.com/rrucker/PhotoAlbum23.html