[QCWA] Fw: Contact QCWA

[Bob Roske]

Mike, W2FCP has revived his Grandfathers call.  Please check you stacks of 
older QSLs and see if you can't help Mike get a card that was his 
grandfathers.

You can use Mike's CBA.

tnx es 73,
Bob Roske, NØUF
QCWA Webmaster
----- Original Message ----- 
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 11:36 AM
Subject: Contact QCWA


> NAME: Michael White
> EMAIL: whitemg at gmail.com
> COMMENT: I got my ham license 26 June 2008. The call I got from the 
> sequential listing was KE5VHE. I applied for my Grandfathers call sign, 
> W2FCP and was issued it on 15 July 2008. From the stories he told he was 
> into radios from the time he was 8 years old. He stopped operating when he 
> got too weak to go down the stairs to his shack, and then later was bed 
> ridden for two years. I inherited his radios and books (full of antenna 
> designs and notes). I would like to try to find out when he initially was 
> licensed. I know he was operating when I was real little, and I was born 
> in 73. The information I got off the web only goes back to 1995. I was 
> wondering if someone could look in the old call books and figure out when 
> he was initially licensed. I also have the first printing of The Radio 
> Handbook (May 1935) that he purchased from Sun Radio Co in New York City. 
> The 1946 Radio Handbook with his call on the inside cover. An ARRL Antenna 
> book from 1968 with his call written on the inside cover.
>
> Here is his address that he lived at from 1940\\\'s on.
>
> Edward Busch
> 137-12 94 St.
> Ozone Park, NY
> 11417
>
> I appreciate any information you can give me. A real bonus would be if 
> someone has one of his QSL cards.
>
>
>