From wa4aw at juno.com  Tue Dec  2 22:05:41 2008
From: wa4aw at juno.com (wa4aw@juno.com)
Date: Tue Dec  2 22:11:45 2008
Subject: [QCWA] 75th Anniversary of FM Radio Special Event
Message-ID: <20081202.220541.949.4@webmail01.vgs.untd.com>

 
                                    75th ANNIVERSARY OF FM RADIO
Major Edwin H. Armstrong Memorial Radio Club will operate special event stations W2XMN 
& W2XEA, December 13 & 14, 2008, 1400-2200Z, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the
invention of FM radio by Major Edwin H. Armstrong in 1933. Frequencies: 7.270 & 14.270
SSB and 29.600 & 52.525 FM. SASE for QSL to Major EH Armstrong FM Association,
PO Box 1584, Loxahatchee, FL 33470.








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From Schrick at copper.net  Sat Dec  6 11:32:28 2008
From: Schrick at copper.net (Gerd Schrick)
Date: Sat Dec  6 11:38:00 2008
Subject: [QCWA] QCWA X-mas Meeting
Message-ID: <493AA91C.7060001@copper.net>



                The QCWA X-mas Meeting is next Tue Dec 9, Guests Welcome
                 Lunch 11 to 12 AM at the MCL Cafeteria 4485 Far Hills
                Av. in Kettering
                The Meeting starts at 12  Subject   A Dayton Jewel by
                Mary Lou Meers:
                CU, Gerd, WB8IFM, Ch 9 Pres.

 


                                                                      


From val.erwin at sbcglobal.net  Sat Dec  6 18:06:37 2008
From: val.erwin at sbcglobal.net (Val Erwin)
Date: Sat Dec  6 18:12:15 2008
Subject: [QCWA] COWTOWN HAMFEST..........Eee....Haw !!
Message-ID: <11138.10350.qm@web83306.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>



ATTN: QCWA COWBOYS AND COWGIRLS......
?
MARK THAT CALENDAR FOR A MUST-DO HAMFEST ON JANUARY 9-10, 2009.?
?
SADDLE UP AND STRAP ON YOUR IRON (HANDI-TALKIES)
AND?POINT THAT HOSS' IN THE DIRECTION OF?COWTOWN FOR ONE OF THE FIRST AND BEST HAMFESTS OF THE NEW YEAR. TO?OUR CITY-FOLK FRIENDS, "COWTOWN" IS NON OTHER THAN FORT WORTH,TX!!???? FULL DETAILS FOLLOW:
?
JANUARY 9-10, 2009
LOCKHEED MARTIN RECREATION AREA
3400 BRYANT IRVIN ROAD
FORT WORTH, TEXAS 76109 
DOORS OPEN FRIDAY EVENING THE 9th AT 5:00PM UNTIL 8:00PM
CHILI SUPPER FRIDAY 8:00PM AT THE RANCH HOUSE 
SATURDAY THE 10th, DOORS OPEN 8:00AM UNTIL 5:00PM
LUNCH SERVED BY SODA SPRINGS BAR-B-Q
SATURDAY 11:00AM UNTIL 1:00PM
MORNING COFFEE, DONUTS, SNACKS AVAILABLE
DOOR PRIZES AWARDED
PARKING IS FREE 
? 
TALK IN 147.28 TONE 110.9

? 
While?at the hamfest, you are invited to stop by and say "Howdy" at the QCWA booth.?? 
? 
You can find out even more hamfest info at: 
?
http://www.cowtownhamfest.org/
?
See y'all there!........
?
Val L. Erwin, W5PUT
QCWA Natl' Director
Flower Mound, TX 
?
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From wa4aw at juno.com  Thu Dec 11 14:07:07 2008
From: wa4aw at juno.com (wa4aw@juno.com)
Date: Thu Dec 11 14:21:09 2008
Subject: [QCWA] 75th ANNIVERSARY OF FM RADIO
Message-ID: <20081211.140707.9617.5@webmail19.vgs.untd.com>

  	

                   75th ANNIVERSARY OF FM RADIO

Major Edwin H. Armstrong Memorial Radio Club & Palms West ARC will operate special event

stations W2XMN & W2XEA, December 13 & 14, 2008, 1400-2200Z, to celebrate the 75th

anniversary of the invention of FM radio by Major Edwin H. Armstrong in 1933. Frequencies:

7.270 & 14.270 SSB and 29.600 & 52.525 FM. SASE for QSL to Major EH Armstrong FM

Association,  PO Box 1584, Loxahatchee, FL 33470.


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From broske at hutchtel.net  Fri Dec 12 01:01:07 2008
From: broske at hutchtel.net (Bob Roske)
Date: Fri Dec 12 01:07:20 2008
Subject: [QCWA] Lyle - W0US
Message-ID: <A364CE6819714957A19908AF788994B7@BobsWeb>

For those that don't know Lyle, he is one of our hard working NCSs on 
14.347Mhz SSB Sunday Afternoon Net.

Of course, I seldom hear him in Minnesota.

73,
Bob Roske, N?UF
President, QCWA

----- Original Message ----- 
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 10:10 PM
Subject: Contact QCWA


> NAME: David J Messing
> EMAIL: davidjmessing@gmail.com
> COMMENT: W0US story......
>
>
> Lyle Quinn, W0US received a FULL, FRONT PAGE of the Feature Section of The 
> Fairbury Journal News Dec 10, 2008 edition. Title of the story.....Love 
> for Hobby Spans Over 70 Years.
>
> Kim Johnson, reporter for the Journal News, was the excellent and perfect 
> person to interview Lyle.  She is a WWII history buff and had the true 
> background and interest in bringing out the fascinating story of this 
> great man.
>
> If for some reason the link doesn\\\'t work, I found it on their web site. 
> Hopefully, the link will work. 
> http://fairburyjournalnews.com/SiteImages/FileGallery/FJN_Cpage1_19.pdf
>
> Having the actual paper is a lot nicer than looking at the computer 
> screen, so I am sure you could order a copy to be sent.  I will treasure 
> my having the actual paper.
>
> Please pass this around the group, if you would please.
>
> Just think of it, Lyle  was in Washington DC copying code in 5 letter code 
> groups  for the government when Pearl Harbor was bombed!
>
> Thank you.
>
> 73
>
> Dave
> K0RWM
>
> p.s.  May I suggest you email Kim Johnson at the Fairbury Journal-News and 
> tell her how great a job she did.  She has to have some Barbara Walters in 
> her skill set to get all these details.  We all know how modest and 
> private Lyle is about his personal self.  Being a reporter is a thankless 
> job, she did her research.  Kim would appreciate your comments and thanks. 
> fjnkim@hotmail.com
>
> A note to her publisher would be good too.  The owner/publisher is Fred A. 
> Arnold Jr.  Fred\\\'s parents were close friends to Lyle and Irene.  He 
> did a great job in picking Kim to cover this story.  Fred\\\'s address is 
> faarnoldjr@yahoo.com
>
>
>
>
> 


From val.erwin at sbcglobal.net  Fri Dec 12 10:10:40 2008
From: val.erwin at sbcglobal.net (Val Erwin)
Date: Fri Dec 12 10:16:56 2008
Subject: [QCWA] Special Event: Invention of FM Radio
Message-ID: <15177.84907.qm@web83304.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

Attn:? QCWA Members
?
Subject: Special Event Station
?
A special event station is scheduled for 13-14 December 2008? to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the invention of FM radio by Major Edwin H. Armstrong.
?
Call sign ? W2XMN
?
Date? -? 13-14 December 2008
?
Time? -? 1400Z-2200Z
?
Frequencies -? 14270 and 7270
?
QSL to:? Major Edwin H. Armstrong FM Association
????????????? P. O. Box 1584
????????????? Loxahatchee , FL 33470
?
Enjoy!!......
?
Val L. Erwin, W5PUT
QCWA Board of Directors
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From w7xq at yahoo.com  Sat Dec 13 03:13:02 2008
From: w7xq at yahoo.com (Luke E Sheridan)
Date: Sat Dec 13 03:19:19 2008
Subject: [QCWA] Excellent Morse Code Article in January QST
Message-ID: <902275.62935.qm@web33002.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

There's a story by William E. Packard, NN9U, in the January QST
at pages 55 through 58 about Morse Code. It's a very positive and
interesting article. If you don't get QST, try to find the article at
ARRL.org.




      
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From WA2ARS at aol.com  Sun Dec 14 20:02:44 2008
From: WA2ARS at aol.com (WA2ARS@aol.com)
Date: Sun Dec 14 20:09:12 2008
Subject: [QCWA] QCWA Orlando Fl Citrus Chapter #45 Meeting Wednesday
	December 17th
Message-ID: <d3a.33037428.367706b4@aol.com>

Citrus Chapter #45 Orlando FL. will be meeting 11AM-2PM   WednesdayDecember 
17th at  Golden Corral, 897 West Town Pky.Altamonte  Springs (StateRoad 434 at 
West Town Pky.)

>From I-4 travelling  East/West,use Exit 92. Eastbound Turn Left on Semoran 
Blvd, St Rd 436.Westbound  turn right on Semoran Blvd. St Rd 436.Continue on St 
Rd 436 for approximately 3  miles to St Rd 434. Turn left on 434(approx.1/2 
mile) to 2nd traffic light,West  Town Pky.Left turn to Golden Corral.

Anyone in the area is welcome and  encouraged to attend. YLs and XYLs are 
also 
welcome.

Please attend if  you can.

Mort Cohen WA2ARS
Treasurer, QCWA Citrus Ch.#45

E-Mail  _WA2ARS@aol.com_ (mip://03925b38/xx) 


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From wa4aw at juno.com  Mon Dec 15 10:42:49 2008
From: wa4aw at juno.com (wa4aw@juno.com)
Date: Mon Dec 15 10:50:51 2008
Subject: [QCWA] QCWA Palm Beach Chapter 111 holiday luncheon
Message-ID: <20081215.104249.2719.0@webmail16.vgs.untd.com>

  	

QCWA Palm Beach Chapter 111 will meet on Tuesday , December 16, 2008,
1130 hrs, for their annual holiday luncheon meeting at Perkins
Restaurant meeting room, Military Trail & Cresthaven Blvd., West Palm
Beach.

All QCWA members & guests are welcome to join us. Talk in
on the 147.045 repeater. See you there.

73,

Jeff WA4AW
QCWA Chapter 111
Secy / Treas.


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From val.erwin at sbcglobal.net  Tue Dec 23 12:06:18 2008
From: val.erwin at sbcglobal.net (Val Erwin)
Date: Tue Dec 23 12:13:39 2008
Subject: [QCWA] WorldRadio / CQ Magazine Informational
Message-ID: <561496.80812.qm@web83308.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>



Howdy QCWA Members!
?
I know that many of you enjoy the WorldRadio columns of some of our elite QCWA Members such as John Johnston, W3BE, Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, and Alan Pickering, KJ9N, just to name a few.
?
Thus, I direct your attention to the current issue of WorldRadio, January, 2009......Page 4:
?
Armond Noble, N6WR, long time publisher of WorldRadio has elected to retire. As a part of his retirement, he has passed the WorldRadio-baton to Dick Ross, K2MGA, of CQ. Magazine. Dick, also a very capable publisher, will carry on the tradition of publishing WorldRadio in a slightly different manner/format. Very shortly, WorldRadio will be free and only available?on the?CQ Website: www.cq-amateur-radio.com? 
?
So, what does this mean to our subscribing QCWA Members? It will mean that our non-computer-savvy Members will no longer be able to receive a hard copy of?WorldRadio.?But, your local library can afford you with both the use of a free computer and some?minimal computer instruction with which to view?WordRadio.?As that old saying goes: "Where there is a will, there is a way!"?
?
So, what about your current subscription to WorldRadio? The full details are on Page 9 of that same above mentioned issue of WorldRadio.?Basically, you will receive one issue of a a CQ Communications publication, of which there are several,? for each issue of WorldRadio that you would have received. If you are a Life Subscriber to WorldRadio, the full details for a smooth transition?can be found on?page 9 as well.
?
73.......
?
Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year de
?
Val L. Erwin, W5PUT
QCWA Natl' Director
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From val.erwin at sbcglobal.net  Wed Dec 24 18:56:37 2008
From: val.erwin at sbcglobal.net (Val Erwin)
Date: Wed Dec 24 20:59:50 2008
Subject: [QCWA] Ham Radio Operator's Night Before Christmas de W5PUT
Message-ID: <795728.42260.qm@web83307.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL:
?
?
A Ham Radio Operator's Night Before Christmas Twas the night before Christmas,? all through two-meters, Not a signal was keying up Any repeaters.
?
?
The antennas reached up
?From the tower, quite high,
To catch the weak signals
That bounced from the sky.
?
?
The children, Tech-Pluses,
Took their HT's to bed,
And dreamed of the day
They'd be Extras, instead.
?
?
Mom put on her headphones,
I plugged in the key,
And we tuned 40 meters
For that rare ZK3.
?
?
When the meter was pegged
by a signal with power.
It smoked a small diode,
and, I swear, shook the tower.
?
?
Mom yanked off her phones,
And with all she could muster
Logged a spot of the signal
On the DX PacketCluster,
?
?
While I ran to the window
And peered up at the sky,
To see what could generate
RF that high.
?
?
It was way in the distance,
But the moon made it gleam -
A flying sleigh, with an
Eight element beam,
?
?
And a little old driver
who looked slightly mean.
So I thought for a moment,
That it might be Wayne Green.
?
?
But no, it was Santa,
The Santa of Hams.
On a mission, this Christmas
To clean up the bands.
?
?
He circled the tower,
Then stopped in his track,
And he slid down the coax
Right into the shack.
?
?
While Mom and I hid
Behind stacks of CQ,
This Santa of hamming
Knew just what to do.
?
?
He cleared off the shack desk
Of paper and parts,
And filled out all my late QSLs
For a start.
?
?
He ran copper braid,
Took a steel rod and pounded
It into the earth, till
The station was grounded.
?
?
He tightened loose fittings,
Resoldered connections,
Cranked down modulation,
Installed lightning protection.
?
?
He neutralized tubes
In my linear amp...
(Never worked right before --
Now it works like a champ).
?
?
A new, low-pass filter
Cleaned up the TV.
He corrected the settings
In my TNC.
?
?
He repaired the computer
That would not compute,
And he backed up the hard drive
And got it to boot.
?
?
Then, he reached really deep
In the bag that he brought,
And he pulled out a big box.
"A new rig?" I thought!
?
?
"A new Kenwood? An Icom?
A Ten-Tec, for me?!"
(If he thought I'd been bad
it might be QRP!)
?
?
Yes! The Ultimate Station!
How could I deserve this?
Could it be all those hours
that I worked Public Service?
?
?
He hooked it all up
And in record time, quickly
Worked 100 countries,
All down on 160.
?
?
I should have been happy,
It was my call he sent.
But the cards and the postage
Will cost two month's rent!
?
?
He made final adjustments,
And left a card by the key:
"To Gary, from Santa Claus.
Seventy-Three."
?
?
Then he grabbed his HT,
Looked me straight in the eye,
Punched a code on the pad,
And was gone - no good bye.
?
?
I ran back to the station,
And the pile-up was big,
But a card from St. Nick
Would be worth my new rig.
?
?
Oh, too late, for his final
came over the air.
It was copied all over.
It was heard everywhere.
?
?
The Ham's Santa exclaimed
What a ham might expect,
"Merry Christmas to all,
And to all, good DX."
?
?
C 1996 by Gary Pearce KN4AQ
Permission granted for any print or electronic reproduction.
?
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From rrucker at verizon.net  Tue Dec 30 14:55:40 2008
From: rrucker at verizon.net (Richard Rucker)
Date: Tue Dec 30 16:08:40 2008
Subject: [QCWA] QCWA Vic Clark Chapter 91's website was updated this
	afternoon
References: <7B012EC4-150C-4D64-9B5B-C1E1AABD9F8C@mac.com>
Message-ID: <4DC8F560-02E8-47F0-8404-F0F49D70E604@verizon.net>

Our website was updated this afternoon:
http://www.qcwa-91.org/

Under RECENT EVENTS:
====================
06 Dec 08: Christmas Luncheon + Steve Floyd updates us on the HAARP/ 
IRI Program

15 Nov 08: James O'Neal on the evolution of AM broadcast transmitters

The photo albums linked to these stories are here:
http://web.mac.com/rrucker/chapter91_photos/
     Go there and then click on:
06 Dec 08 B: Steve Floyd on Ionospheric Experiments in Alaska
06 Dec 08 A: Chapter 91's Christmas Luncheon at the Marco Polo

15 Nov 08: James O'Neal on the Evolution of AM Broadcast Transmitters


73,
Dick Rucker, KM4ML
webmaster
Vic Clark Chapter 91 of QCWA

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From k1aa at cfl.rr.com  Wed Dec 31 12:45:45 2008
From: k1aa at cfl.rr.com (Norm Gertz)
Date: Wed Dec 31 13:58:34 2008
Subject: [QCWA] Fw: Naval Radio facilities
Message-ID: <A87A1FE7A12A49CD96A81C1E0C2A0D6A@owner682c360c0>


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Norm Gertz 
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 12:35 PM
Subject: Naval Radio facilities


This will bring back memories for old time communicators......enjoy..

http://www.virhistory.com/navy/commsta.htm
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