[QCWA] improving QCWA

[Richard]

I also agree..
Rich
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "walt qcwa" <n3wsqcwa at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of QCWA or Ham Radio" <qcwa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: [QCWA] improving QCWA


> Looking forward to your next article Jeff
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> 73
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> walt supina N3WS
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> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Jeffrey Angus <jangus at socal.rr.com> 
> wrote:
>> "John Peters" <petersj007 at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>>> > Make them want to be a  member.
>>> > The MAGAZINE is the biggest draw for many members.
>>
>> And I think that is the problem. I don't mean with the Journal itself,
>> but with the content.
>>
>> I qualified for membership in the QCWA in 1992, At the "tender"
>> age of 39.  A few years back I sent in my money for life membership.
>>
>> The problem as I see it is if you look at the articles in the Journal,
>> it is almost excluesively people considerably older. Usually smiling
>> as they receive a plaque for surviving to the age of 80 or 90.
>>
>> Now don't get me wrong, I want to last that long too.
>>
>> But where are people my age? World War II wasn't the only
>> conflict. There was Korea and Vietnam. President Reagan
>> quiped that the Soviet Union had been outlawed. And IBM
>> released the PC. Surely there were hams licensed during
>> that time that qualifed for the QCWA by now.
>>
>> I really enjoyed reading about proximity fuses in WWII. But
>> what about the installtion of VHF FM repeaters on the hill
>> tops in Korea? Where are the articles about Senator Barry
>> Goldwater and his  "phone patch to Vietnam"
>> network? Remember when trying to get a QSL card from
>> an RU station meant sending it to PO Box in Moscow?
>> Or when RTTY was the "king of digital" and really high
>> tech was sending slow scan TV on a Robot with a 3"
>> green CRT.
>>
>> But to the "new guys" the QCWA has all the appearances
>> of a "really old old timers" club. It's almost like Romper Room
>> for seniors. "I see Frank in New Jersey, he's 95 today..."
>> And God forbid we ever admit that there's other ways of
>> communication other than Morse Code.
>>
>> Jeff-1.0
>> wa6fwi
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