[Wswss] A WSWSS requiem and postmortem

[Steven Rapata]

Wayne, perhaps you are mistaken or perhaps I did not understand you comments 
about,

"the Southern
California Six Meter Club, walked away in
frustration after they were inundated by
criticism"

I am a member of the California Six Meter Club, actual I could be mistaken 
myself as I am actualy a member of the "SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SIX METER CLUB", 
WAS THERE  A CLUB CALLED "THE CALIFORNIA SIX METER CLUB"????

At any rate, The Southern California Six Meter Club is doing fine, we quit 
doing formal meetings on a regular basis, but still have them from time to 
time .

We also have Six Meter Nets, Sunday at 10AM on 50.400AM, and Tuesday at 8PM 
on 50.150 USB.

We no Longer hold conferances and such, but still alive and well.

Thank You.


KG6TCV, Steven Rapata
kg6tcv at hotmail.com





>From: Wayne Overbeck <overbeck6 at yahoo.com>
>To: wswss at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [Wswss] A WSWSS requiem and postmortem
>Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 03:08:29 -0800 (PST)
>
>It's very sad to see the formal WSWSS
>organization disbanded.  I understand
>that Paul has done nothing more than
>turn out the lights--as he had to.
>
>IF the reflector is still operational,
>I would like to say a couple of things
>about this.
>
>One is that WSWSS is certainly not the
>first (nor, sadly, will it be the last)
>amateur radio organization to be disbanded.
>It has served an important special interest--
>and I hope that special interest can still
>be served by a more informal interest group.
>
>I hope this reflector can be kept online,
>under some other name if necessary.  It has
>become a vital link to keep the west coast
>weak signal community in touch.
>
>I also hope that those who are running nets
>will continue to do so, even if they can't
>use the WSWSS name and call sign.  Those
>nets are important activity boosters.
>
>Perhaps we can still have informal gatherings
>of weak signal enthusiasts in various
>localities.
>
>Weak signal operating in California has
>survived the loss of organizations before.
>Those of us who have been on the VHF bands
>for a while (I first got on in 1957, 50
>years ago) remember other organizations
>that have dropped out of sight.  There was
>the Southern California VHF Radio Club.
>There was the GD Microwave Society.  There
>was the umbrella organization that grew
>from the GD group to host the West Coast
>VHF Conference, rotating between Northern
>and Southern California.
>
>I hosted the 25th and 28th (I think) West
>Coast VHF Conferences in Santa Barbara--
>because no one else wanted to do that task.
>Others put on about 10 more such conferences
>before the last sponsors, the Southern
>California Six Meter Club, walked away in
>frustration after they were inundated by
>criticism (unfairly, in my view).  Soon
>thereafter, the WSWSS emerged and started
>hosting annual conferences.
>
>Why have all of these organizations folded
>while VHF organizations elsewhere have
>continued?  The Mt. Airy Packrats just
>celebrated their 50th anniversary with
>a nice dinner, and the Central States
>VHF Society seems to be doing fine--to
>cite just two examples.  Why can't we
>pull it off in California?  I don't have
>an answer.  Maybe we didn't have the
>right chemistry.  Maybe we have too
>many distractions on the "left coast."
>Maybe some of us just didn't make it
>a high enough priority in our lives.
>Mea culpa.
>
>Maybe we can keep the reflector, the nets
>and some occasional gatherings, with or
>without the official organization.  I hope
>so.
>
>73,
>Wayne Overbeck, N6NB
>Former vice director, ARRL Southwestern Division
>
>
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