[QCWA] Re: QCWA

[qcwa at texoma.net]

This fall, a new, but unrepentent?, crew takes the ominous chore of trying 
to lead QCWA into revitalization. This they CANNOT do, unless and until 
the constraints, established long ago by well meaning but desusional 
founders, who thought that the imposition of the 25 years (somehow) would 
make them a much sought after organization. Well, the chickens have begun 
to return to the roost and it is a harbinger for the further decline of 
QCWA.
I wish the incoming officers well...they'll need all of our support, but 
without some radical changes, QCWA is doomed to further decline and 
eventually there will only be a few, very small, inactive, die hard 
chapters to recall the good old days, back when....as it was. Without some 
forward and futuristic thinking and ACTIONS, QCWA will be like the hearse 
in a tornado. No matter where the driver(s) turn the wheels, the winds of 
change are bound to overcome and it will be the winds, not the driver(s), 
who will steer QCWA into greatness or eventual doom.  Steve>


 Jim writes:  "  Lets start active mentoring programs and really teach 
some 
> skills to the new generation before the skills die out with us! Let the 
> current QCWA members set examples that make the new generation want to 
be 
> like us."
> 
> How very well said Jim......my thoughts also.
> 
> Interesting to note that in the recent field day activity that a lack of 
> qualified phone operators surfaced.  An interesting twist for sure.
> 
> 73   Norm   K1AA
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Mockley" <jmockley at msn.com>
> To: "QCWA" <qcwa at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 1:47 AM
> Subject: [QCWA] Re: QCWA
> 
> 
> This has been a very interesting string. I would like to suggest some of 
the 
> reasons for the decline in hams and membership have been technological. 
When 
> we were all coming up the ranks, the internet didn't exist. It has 
become 
> the ham radio of the present times. Secondly, When I was learning 
> electronics and theory, I was blessed with a number of great mentors. 
Some 
> are now SK's and some are still active. I remember how much I admired 
them 
> and appreciated their influence in my life.
> 
> Today, the education of ham radio and for that matter commercial radio 
has 
> been relegated to software based programs available on CD and DVD. Where 
did 
> the hams with expertise slowly excuse themselves from mentoring the new 
> folks? maybe that is where we can make a difference.
> 
> I would suggest QCWA members need to re-assert their skills and help the 
new 
> hams in their new field of study. The new courses available to these new 
> folks do not teach electronic or radio theory and design. As was 
previously 
> mentioned the new hams are learning just enough to pass the tests. 
Today, 
> people don't know how to pick up a soldering iron, instead they have 
become 
> appliance operators.
> 
> Lets start active mentoring programs and really teach some skills to the 
new 
> generation before the skills die out with us! Let the current QCWA 
members 
> set examples that make the new generation want to be like us.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Jim Mockley W7JMM
> Chapter 168
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