[South Florida DX Association] Fw: [TowerTalk] Raffle for W4AN's kids (contesting.com founder)

[bmarx at bellsouth.net]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kurszewski Chad-WCK005" <Chad.Kurszewski at motorola.com>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 11:22 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Raffle for W4AN's kids (contesting.com founder)


> Since the Towertalk reflector is hosted on the contesting.com servers,
> I hope you pardon this non-Towertalk topic.
> 
> 
> As many of you know, Bill Fisher W4AN -- top contester and founder of 
> eHam.net and contesting.com -- recently passed away.  His sudden passing 
> was a shock to the entire ham community, and he will be greatly missed.
> 
> The W4AN Memorial Trust Fund was established to benefit Bill's two young 
> children, Graeme and Erik. See W8JI's page for more info on this fund... 
> http://w8ji.com/w4an.htm
> 
> To help add funds to the Trust, we've put together a Raffle, with a great 
> assortment of prizes.  Thanks to the incredible support of the ham radio 
> business community, we are able to offer about $6,200 in prizes, including 
> a new ICOM IC-756PROII, generously donated by ICOM America!
> 
> Tickets will be sold at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Thursday, Friday and 
> Saturday nights (5/13-5/15) PLUS tickets are also available on-line via a 
> secure server, for those that can't make it to Dayton this year.  The 
> raffle drawing will take place on Saturday night (5/15) at Midnight.  Need 
> not be present to win.
> 
> For all the details, including pictures and descriptions of all the prizes, 
> go to:
> http://w4an.qth.com/raffle.
> 
> Please feel free to forward this message to others.  Thanks for your support!
> 
> Scott, KA9FOX
> Paul, K9PG
> Mike, K9NW
> Chad, WE9V