[QCWA] Re: QCWA

[n1baa at comcast.net]

The 25 year stipulation needs to stay in place..and will
never go away...
But the dialog herein has been a good spark to add a little
fire, or "life" into being...

Having said that, there is always room for yet another club
if someone wants to start it up...
With EVERY SINGLE change or addition mentioned in this email
subject....

But QCWA is defined as QUARTER CENTURY...THAT is what we
are...that is what makes us different...
What we do within..... with those members who qualify is
100% within our control....
Again I will say...there is a METRIC BUTT TON of hams that
qualify for QCWA....
How will the new regime target them???

Jose - N1BAA


> 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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