[QCWA] QCWA and OOTC

[AW]

Both organizations have separate objectives and celebrate different 
stages of life in ham radio.  And the two should be left to pursue their 
separate objectives and celebrations. The call for some common sense and 
more positive attitudes toward the newer hams is direct and to the point.

I was originally licensed in 1954 as WN1CRO (I know the QCWA can't find 
me in the book until 1955, but I remember sitting on the living room 
floor trying to solder the last connections on an AM 2 meter rig so I 
could communicate during Hurricane Carol - that was 1954) and back then 
enjoyed a lot of support from guys in the old South Shore Amateur Radio 
Club, Quincy, Massachusetts, like Sam Shon, W1OTZ, Frank Baker, W1ALP, 
Leon Wood, W1WK and Ruddy, W1MME. They put up with my dumb comments and 
questions and coached me along for two years - then I finally got my 
Novice and then they kept up the support.  So quit belly-aching about 
new guys.  We were all new guys at one time and a lot of us weren't 
engineers when we got our tickets - just young kids trying to learn.

73,
Arthur
W1CRO




On 1/8/2013 2:38 PM, Tom H Childers wrote:
> ABSOLUTLY NOT!
>
> 73,
> Tom
> Amateur Radio Operator N5GE
> ARRL Lifetime Member
> QCWA Lifetime Member
>
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 11:38:16 -0800 (PST), "J.  Dalton Mccrary"
> <w4wuq at att.net>  wrote:
>
>> Good Idea.
>>
>>
>> J. Dalton McCrary, W4WUQ
>> w4wuq at arrl.net
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Don Tucker<w7wll at arrl.net>
>> To: qcwa at mailman.qth.net
>> Sent: Mon, January 7, 2013 1:15:38 PM
>> Subject: [QCWA] QCWA and OOTC
>>
>> I see an ad in the QCWA Journal (Winter 2012) for an Old Old Timers Club?  I
>> am not familiar with it. Are they a QCWA spinoff? I see their criteria is 40
>> years in wireless communications, period. While different than the amateur
>> radio requirement of QCWA, it seems the two have a common goal. Why not
>> discuss a merge and become one strong organization?
>>
>> While this may not serve the purists, it would seem a broadening of the
>> member base would be in the interests of all.  I know several hams who may
>> only have been licensed a short few years, but have been involved in
>> wireless communications for more than 40 years, sharp hams and sharp
>> technically in wireless communications.
>>
>> Just a thought as I read all the discussions about how to bolster membership
>> (not just QCWA but a lot of similar organizations today).
>>
>> Don W7WLL
>> Lic 1954
>>
>>
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