[QCWA] suggestions to the board,etc

[johnston.john1 at att.net]

Thanks, Bill.  You may have just solved a mystery for me.  The Huntsville Hamfest was on one of our numerous tours of QCWA Chapters last summer.  I was curious as to why there is no QCWA Chapter in Huntsville.  All that I could find out was that there used to be one, but it had disappeared.

I think you have the answer.  At our Baltimore Chapter #20 booth two weeks ago, a visitor for Pennsylvania asked: "Why should I rejoin QCWA?  I attended a Chapter meeting and no one even spoke to me, let alone extend a welcome."  That outrageous slight does not occur in our Chapter.

73
W3BE 
President, Baltimore Chapter #20


-------------- Original message from Bill Aycock <baycock at direcway.com>: -------------- 


> I have seen MANY posts with this subject but have seen nothing real and 
> concrete. This is symptomatic of some of the problem. 
> My experiences probably are typical, and indicate that organizational 
> death is probably near. 
> I am 78, and was first licensed as a novice in 1952- I lapsed twice, but 
> came back. I (early years) looked up to the QCWA. After my last 
> re-entry, I joined. 
> I did not renew my membership, for more reasons than is healthy for the 
> group. 
> Except for the notice that I was now a member, I never heard from 
> anyone, and was never invited to join any chapter. 
> This area (Near Huntsville, AL) has about the highest ham density of ANY 
> area in the world- it is very Tech oriented, but there is no QCWA 
> chapter here- there must be a reason. There many here who qualify. 
> Most of the chatter on this reflector is trivial nostalgia; Nostalgia 
> is OK, but there must be more to QCWA than that. Most of the nostalgia 
> tends to be insignificant repeats of who was stationed where and 
> trained where in the Signal Corp, or remembrances of early CW copying 
> skills. 
> To add to this, what is apparently an attempt to start a cure is being 
> covered up. I have seen MANY posts about some mysterious "14 
> Suggestions" but it is being swept under the rug like some deep, dark 
> secret. Open the discussion, or shut up! 
> 
> Unless QCWA changes, it will soon be dead. If it dies, I will mourn, a 
> little. 
> Bill 
> 
> -- 
> Bill Aycock W4BSG 
> Woodville, Alabama 
> 
> 
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