[QCWA] Looking To Bridge The Generation Gap For a Brave 7 Year Old

[William M. Pasternak]

Hi all,

We are running this story on our current 
ARNewsline newscast in the hope of locating a QSL 
card from the original Lee Faber W9DAX, W9EH and 
W7EH to give to his seriously ill grandson.

Rather than repeating the details, the story says 
it all.  If you can take the time to check your 
old QSL collection for a card from Lee Faber 
under any of his three call signs, and then send 
it to Dick Ross at CQ, you would be giving a 
great fift to a brave 7 year old cancer victim.

de
Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF
ARNewsline

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THAT FINAL ITEM: DO YOU HAVE GRAND DADS QSL?

And finally this week, a question.  Do you happen 
have a QSL card from the late Leon Faber?  During 
his lifetime, Faber held the calls W9DAX, W9EH and finally W7EH.

Well, if you can part with it then please send it 
to Dick Ross, K2MGA, at CQ Magazine.  He will 
make sure that its turned over to someone who 
never met Lee Faber, but has a definite 
connection to the man.  His 7 year old grandson Bryce:

--

"Bryce is a terrific young guy whose is in a 
fight for his life.  He's got a rare and 
aggressive form of cancer that he's been fighting 
for a good part of his 7 years.

Bryce's grandfather Lee Faber died before Bryce 
ever had the chance to meet him.  All he knows 
about his grandfather he's learned from his father Barton.

I was asked by Barton at Memorial Solan-Kettering 
(hospital in NYC) if I thought that there was any 
way that we might be able to come up with even 
one of Lee's old QSL's from his long ham 
career.  So, that’s what we are trying to do.

We feel that we have been given a rare 
opportunity to connect this courageous young 
fellow with his silent key grandfather through 
the magic of ham radio.  Somewhere out there 
among our readers, there has got to be someone 
who has at least one of Lee's QSL's  that we can send to Bryce

--

So how can you help?  Simply by looking through 
your old QSL collection and seeing if you have a 
card from Lee Faber under any of the three calls 
that he held during his lifetime.  Again, those 
call signs were W9DAX, W9EH and finally W7EH.

Maybe its not on your wall.  Maybe its in with 
all those others you have in that collection 
sitting in a shoebox in your closet.  Or in that 
photo album that you use to store your QSL collection.

No matter. If you are willing to give it up so 
that Leon Faber's grandson can get to know a bit 
about his grandfathers passion for radio, just 
put it in an envelope and send it off to Dick 
Ross, K2MGA, at CQ Magazine.  His address -- 
actually that of the magazine is 25 Newbridge 
Road, Hicksville, New York.  The zipcode is 11801.

Dick Ross promises that he will take the cards he 
receives and ship them off to Bryce Faber.  This, 
to help build a generation bridge between today and a generation now past.

More about Bryce Faber and the search for a way 
to connect him to his long deceased grandfather 
Lee Fabrt in Dick Ross' article "A Shoebox Search 
Mission" beginning on page 30 of the November 
issue of CQ Magazine.  (ARNewsline™, CQ)

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