[QCWA] Message From President Johnston

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TO ALL QCWA CHAPTERS: 

CALL FOR SECTION 97.1 ALL STAR

PRESIDENTIAL HONOR AWARDS

Who was it in your Chapter that you admire as having best fulfilled, during 2005, the principles codified in Section 97.1 of the FCC rules for our amateur service? These five principles establish the type of amateur service we are expected to provide in return for being allowed to use some highly valuable radio spectrum. It is now the time to reflect upon who among should receive our Presidential Honor Awards for 2005. In your Winter QCWA JOURNAL, there is the call for your Chapter to nominate QCWA members for these Awards.

The awards will be made on April 1, 2006, and will be announced in our Summer QCWA JOURNAL. They are:

1. For service to the public as a voluntary noncommercial communication service, particularly with respect to providing emergency communications. (Disaster work?)
2. For continuing and extending the amateur operator's proven ability to contribute to the advancement of the radio art. (Experimenter?)
3. For advancing skills in both the communication and technical phases of the radio arts. (Instructor?)
4. For expanding the existing reservoir within our amateur service of trained operators, technicians and electronic experts. (Volunteer Examiner?)
5. For continuing and extending the amateur operator's unique ability to enhance international goodwill. (DXer?) 

Please submit your nomination to Director Harold Chase, W1EES, before March 15, 2006. He is the Chairman of our Chapter Relations Standing Committee that is administering this program. Send to 75 Chestnut Circle, W. Suffield, CT 06093-2100.

Include the name and call sign of your nominee, the specific award for which you are making your nomination and a statement of your reasons for making it.

Here is your opportunity to recognize a deserving QCWA member in your Chapter for helping make amateur radio the greatest hobby in the World.

Please let Harold hear from you.

John B. Johnston W3BE
President, QCWA