[WIham] Fwd: Badger State Smoke Signals Discontinued

[Mark Thompson]

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Ebneter <kenneth.ebneter at frontier.com>
To: kenneth.ebneter at frontier.com
Sent: Mon, Nov 15, 2010 4:37 pm
Subject: BSSS discontinued

Its been a great run but now it is time to discontinue BSSS.

Letter follows.

Badger State Smoke Signals
Kenneth A. Ebneter, K9EN
822  Wauona Trail
Portage, WI  53901-1402
608-742-3560 (H)  (fax)
608-697-6026 (W) (cellphone)

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BADGER STATE SMOKE SIGNALS 11/15/2010
KENNETH A. EBNETER, K9EN
822 WAUONA TRAIL
PORTAGE WI 53901-1402


November 15, 2010


BADGER STATE SMOKE SIGNALS has been published for since 1969. The last issue was 
published in June of
2009. I had hoped to keep publishing since that time, but circumstances have not 
made that possible, and we are
announcing that BSSS is being discontinued. We have gone from a monthly 
circulation of over 1600 servicing over
15 clubs to a present mailing list of less than 200 serving only a few clubs. 
Costs have continued to increase and
work and health conditions made it difficult to find time to work on putting it 
out.
Much of the material published is now available over the internet from many 
sources on the local club and national
levels. The BSSS web site http://www.bsss.org/ has been allowed to expire.

The archived copies of BSSS and other publications will be donated to the 
Wisconsin State Historical Society. There
they will be available for future researchers trying to find what this strange 
hobby of Amateur Radio was about. The
CD ROM version of BSSS will also be kept available to anyone wanting a copy.

Regarding your subscriptions, any received since the last issue in 2009 will be 
refunded. If your check has not been
deposited, it is being returned. For others already deposited, a refund check 
will be sent. After returning the
subscriptions and covering closing costs, any funds remaining in the BSSS bank 
account will be given to an amateur
radio related charity such as the ARRL National Foundation.

BSSS started as the publication of the Yellow Thunder Amateur Radio Club and was 
expanded to include the entire
state of Wisconsin. Jim Romelfanger, K9ZZ (SK) was the editor for over 30 years 
until his death and I continued as
editor/publisher until last year.

There are many memories of working on BSSS in my basement (after Jim had made 
the mimeograph sheets) with the
mimeograph machine and the monthly crew of mimeograph turners (until we acquired 
a motor driven mimeograph),
slip sheets, collating, labeling and stamps followed by a late night snack at a 
nearby restaurant and then to the Post
Office the next morning. Later we switched to commercial printing and night 
sessions were greatly reduced to only
one or two people. I will not attempt to list all those that helped both with 
text material and with getting it out but,
there were many.

It has been a pleasure bringing BSSS to the amateurs of Wisconsin, and I look 
forward to continuing to see you at
hamfests and other activities around the state.

73 ken k9en
608-742-3560
kenneth.ebneter at frontier.com