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MAY/JUNE 1975
Vol. XXIX No. 4
MINUTES OF THE MAY 9th, 1975 MEETING OF THE NCDXC, INC.
THE DX'ER
THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA DX CLVB, INC.
P. 0. BOX 608, MENLO PARK, CA 94025
Published Monthly for the benefit
and interest of its members.
FOUNDED
Jack Troster
Ken Anderson
E. Howard Hale
John Brand
Don Schliesser
Robert Smithwick
Bob Thompson
Treasure~
Directors
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The treasurer reported a balance of
$2081.00.
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-OFFICERS·President
Vice Pres.
Secretary
The May I9 7 5 meeting vra"> held at the
Hyatt-Cabana Hotel in Palo Alto with
Vice President Ken Anderson, K6CQF,
presiding.
W6ISQ
K6CQF
W6SC
K6RXZ
W6MAV
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Permission to reproduce any or all
pprts of the DX'ER is allowed provided that credit is given the DX'ER.
The: secretary rP-ad the minutes of
the April 11th regular meeting and
the minutes of the April 30 Board of
Directors. - They were approved after
additions, to-wit: · W6MUR suggested
addition of the f9llowing (April 11
minutes): The President apologized
to speaker of evening for very loud
Rock Band music emanating from adjoining room. K6SSJ suggested addition to Board Meeting minutes:
CONTEST AND AWARDS: Bi-Centennial
contests and awards begi:h as of 0000
hrs. GMT 1 January 1976.
Second readings were given 'the appHeimo Kinnari, -0H5VTtW£and Steve Adair, WA6WEI, and both
were voted into full membership.
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147.96 MHz.
147.36 MHz.
147.54 MHz.
The NCDXC NET meets on the repeater
at 8;UU P.M. Thursdays to pass DX &
other infor:rnation of interest to its
members. W6TTS is Net Control Sta,
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balance of $1322.00. Charlie,
W6ZYC, Repeater Chairman, reported
that the rtew An~enna should be delivered and instaJ:led in about a month.
He thanked Orman Meyer, K6QX, 'for:>
selling over $400.00 plastic boxes
donated by Phil, W6LQC, and donating
the proceeds to the Repeater Fund.
He also thanked Merle for his efforts
in "dunning" the members.
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Please send all contributions to the
DX'ER to:
Bob Thompson - K6SSJ
14703 Eastview Drive
Los Gatos, CA 95030
The DX' er of the Year Award PI'aque
was awarded to Gene Darlington, the
1975 recipient, who was unable to
attend the Fresno convention for his
presentation.
K6BR made a member survey re Docket
20282 which ~as printed by K6SSJ and
distributed. .to members present. Members are tp ,p~mplete and return to
the Secretary immediately.
K6SSJ reported on attending services
for our late member Rolf Carlsen,
WA6IDF.
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Very sincerely yours,
Bob is handling inventory of Rolf's
gear and will publish in the DX'er.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DX CLUB, INC.
Irv Emig~ W6GC, President
V-P K6CQF announced that K6SSJ has
tendered his resignation as editor
of the DX'er after next issue. Bob
says he is still willing to do the
run-off, but someone· else must be
found to gather assemble and type the
stencils.
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W6ZM reported on PA9WRR's recent activities and K6SS·J re-ported that · OH2BH
has appointed him to select two members of the NCDXC to go on. the next
Mt. Athos DXpedition.
V-P K6CQF introduced Lloyd Colvin,
W6KG, wh0 presented a very interes.t ing program assisted by XYL, Iris,
W6DOD. Lloyd told about their recent
trip to the Dayton Hamvention, and of
his talk with FCC's Prose Walker.
Lloyd then took over at the slide projector and introduced Iris who acted
as commentator for their presentation
of outstanding QSL cards in their collection of over a quarter million cards.
Their fine program was·well received
by those present.
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John P. Nelson, W6JHV
P. 0. Box 1151
El Cerrito, CA-94530
William K. Ault, WB6BKN
1120 Larch Ave
Moraga, CA 94556 376-6921 H
376-4948 w
John W. Lee, W6YKS
3654 Three Oaks Rd.
Stockton, CA 95206
(209) 462-7391 H
(209) 463-3810 w
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Heimo J. Kinnari, OH5VT/W6
925 Wolfe Road, #22
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
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Steve Adair, WAGWEI
2944 Rossmore Ct.
San Jose, CA 95122 274-0799 H
Respectfully submitted,
E. Howard Hale, Sec.
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P. 0. Box 17892
Tucson, AZ 85731
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James F. Wakefield
1720 Jennings
Madera, CA 93637 (209)
674-2302
To Jack Trester
Dear John,
We wish to congratulate the Northern
California DX Club for again hosting
a very successful and enjoyable Int~r­
national DX Convention. It was indeed
entertaining, informative and we renewed old friendships and made many
new ones.
Our general chairman for the convention next year will be Jay Holladay,
W6EJJ, who is already busy making
plans for the event. We promise to
have a Fresno 76 that will match the
high caliber of past conventions.
Many thanks again for an outstanding
Fresno 75.
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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA DX CLUB
in the operation of the W6 QSL
Bureau.
Dear Sirs:
The way in which your club members
joined together to fulfill their
pledge is an outstanding example
of the type of spirit the Northern
California DX Club is famous for.
You took a very difficult task and
The idea is to ~~y to do an exnot bnly delivered all the cards,
change of houses, car~, TV's, namely a
you vigorously campaigned to delcompletely furnished house swap for
iver cards to those not keeping enabout 6 months to one year, it would
velop~s on file.
All this added up
obviously be ideal to have this arrange- to a job well ___,
done!
ment with a Ham, so he could have the
use of my rig and I of his. The rig
Sincerely,
consists of HF as well as VHF.
Wayne Spring, W6IRD
My QTH is about 10 miles north of
Secretary, SCDXC
Tel-Aviv in a garden suburb of
Ra'anana. The house is new and comThis letter was received in March
prises 4 Bedrooms (main en-suite)
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but space did not permit its earlstudy_, lounge, Ham shack, etc. As the
ier printing.
(Editor)
crow flies, about 2 miles from the
Mediterranean Sea, which can be seen
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from the house, one can also see the
Jordanian Mountains.
At the last Club meeting at the
Cabana-Hyatt in Palo Alto Jim Wake- ~
field, W6PSQ-,- -men-tioned-- to- me that
The San- Fvancisco a:r::>-ea is -the
he had ~n offset-press in Madera
best choice, with a range of up to 30
and would print and mail our DX'ER
miles from the City.
I am an ex-South
if
given copy ready print.
I have
African and have an XYL and 3 children.
taken
Jim
up
on
his
offer
and
hope
The desirable period would be from
August, 1975.
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to have this issue of the DX'ER
printed via the offset process by
I would appreciate it very much
W6PSQ. I will be delivering the
if you could put the advert in your
copy along with mailing labels and
stamps to him as soon as it is possbulletin and send me the bill which
will be paid by return post. Kindly
ible to complete the typing of the
advise me if this is possible, if not,
issue.
It is considerably easier
could you please let me know if there
to merely type'the copy rather than
to have to spend a considerable
are other Ham radio clubs with whom I
time cuttipg stencils. I have great
can communicate. Thanking you in
hope that this will be the solution
anticipation.
to the problem of printing and distributing the DX'ER. · and am most
Yours faithfully,
pleased to accept Jim's offer to do
Julius Lieberman 4Z4NY
it.
If all goes well the quality of
the DX'ER should improve using this
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technique.
Please bear with us until we can iron out the wrinkles in
Gentlemen:
getting ·it typed, printed and in the
On behalf of all the members of the
mail to you.
It should cut down on ~
the number of man hours spent doSouthern California DX Club, we wish
ing the entire paper and it is my
to take this opportunity to express
sincere hope that the membership
our appreciation for the years of dedwill
be the beneficiary, and I
icated hard work the members of the
wo~ld
like to express my thanks to
Northern California DX Club expended
Jim for his offer.
(Editor - K6SSJ)
I wish to place an advert in your
bulletin. For many years I have been
contemplating an extended trip to Amer~
ica and now feel that the time is ripe.
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Ham on Air
and carborundum crystal receivers
which then pe~mitted them to maintain communications over short distances bet~een their homes.
~ LIFE
of ADVENTURE:
rOW to INDIA POSTS
by Ray Meyers - W6MLZ
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He left England in 1921 on a 3
year contract with the Indo-EuropAnother interesting amateur living
ean Telegraph Co., which was contin India is Joe A. Faithful, VU2JA,
rolled from the India Office in Lonand some of his experiences are well
don, with cable and wireless stations
worth relating to our readers.
in the Persian Gulf and direct circuits from Karachi to London. In
On April 11 Joe will celebrate his
May of that year he worked in the
77th birthday and his life has been
cable office at Karachi for a few
one memorable experience after another. months, following which he was given
further instruction in wireless
As a youngster he attended St. Jostelegraphy. In July he qualified
eph's School in Calcutta and, after
for another first class certificate
passing his junior CAmbridge examinof proficiency but this time it was
ation, he attended teleg~aph training
issued by the Director-General of
school where he became very interestPosts and Telegraph in India.
ed in wireless communication.
Assigned to Henjam Island in the
Leaving home in June . l914, he signPersian Gulf in October 1921, he
ed on as a cabin steward aboard the
took charge of ·a three kilowatt
Hamburg-American Line ship Nordmark
station for a couple of years before
bound for Hamburg. Shortly afterward
moving on to Lingah Radio as W-T
~was taken as prisner of -war by the
(wireless telegraphist) in charge.
~.:~ermans at the age of 16.
He was sent There he became very much interested
to a camp in Navelberg, near Berlin,
iri de Forest auctions and built a reand from there to a forced camp at
ceiver permitting him to pick up
Bartenstein, East Prussia. From there long distance CW (code) stations, inhe was sent to an iron ore mine in
cluding the British high power statMekenkirchen near Kassel. In 1917 he
ion GBR at Rugby, England.
was taken to another camp in WunadorfEarning a full year of vacation
Zossen, near Berlin.
he spent most of his time around LonIn 19.18 the Germans sent him to work don or touring the Continent aft·er
underground in the salt mines at Stein- which he was assigned to Bushire
ford, near Hanover, where he worked un- Radio VTF in the Persian Gulf. Here
til after the Armistice. In April,
he built his first amateur station
operating on 45 meters.
1919, he escaped to Hanover and then
on to Cologne where he reported to
British authorities who had occupied
While stationed at Bahrain, from
that city and he was repatriated to
February, 1931, to May, 1933, he made
his first DX (long distance) two-way
London.
contact on the amateur band with
Joseph
Horvath - W6GPB, of San Rafael
The british secretary of state for
up
in
Marin
County.
India gave him a grant of 150 pounds sterling for living expenses and a
Joe was married in Karachi in 1934
coui~e in wireless telegraphy at a
and
his wife Hildred was able t0 traBritish school. Passing his wireless
vel with him to assignments in Bah~minatiori in 1920 he earned a first
rain, Kuwait, Muscat and Doba.
~iass certificate of proficiency in
wireless telegraphy from the British
At present Joe is retired and the
Postmaster-General. While attending
the school, he and a few of his class- pair live in Bangalore, India, and
although citizens of India, with
mates built little spark transmitters
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English being their mother tongue, Joe
says we belong to the ~inority AngloIndian community,
He holds membership certificate No.
695 in the Old Old Timers Club and in
addition to his call VU2JA he has held
the calls VS8AA, VU2AA, VU2BX and
MP4BAF during his various assignments.
He is an active member of the Flying
Operators Club, the American Radio
Relay League, A-1 Operators' Club, the
Rag Chewers' Club and of course DXCC
for working over 100 foreign stations
from his home.
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Joe Faithful may often be heard on
15 and 20 meter bands and has worked
many of our Southland amateurs on many
an occas1on.
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This article appeared in a Los Angeles
paper and mentions one of the original
members of the NCDX Club, Many of you
know and respect Joe Horvath, W6GPB,
who sent the article along to be printed here.
If all goes well with our new
printing process we'll print a copy of
Joe's QSL card from Joe A. Faithful,
You will note that VUlAA was runing
the grand total of 25 watts to a half
wave windom antenna. The time of the
QSO was March 20, 1936,
Joe , W6GPB, sent along a photo of his
station at the time, which was a 47
tube in a 3,5 me xtal esc. to a 46
buffer doubler stage and push-pull
800s in the final,
The receiver was
a National SW-3 (A regenerative rx,
which I believe may have had an rf
stage and a stage of audio). His antenna at that time was a 135 ft. zepp.
866 rectifiers with 1000 volts output
and a smaller 500 volt supply for the
oscillator and buffer stages, His
location was Tiburon, California at
that time, Joe has been an outstanding DX' er and has held most j obs in
the Club at one time or another, He
is now retired and a collector of
Antique Radio equipment. Thanks for
the article, Joe,
The VU contact in those days was a vy
r a re QSO indeed.
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5 AUGUST 1975 - NCDXC BULLETIN (cont)
No-one has stepped forth and presented themselves to the President or
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ard . of Directors to assume the job
of taking over the chores of the DXer.
It is a definite shame that in a club
with a membership approaching 200
there is no one person willing to do
this task. In any event, I have had
most of the DXer ready to go for some
time but have not had the time to get
it finished up. If at all possible I
will have this issue ready to go at
the meeting on Friday August 8th, however, it is my last. The pressure of
business and various other activities
prevent my publishing any future DXers, although I will be pleased to
assist in whatever way I can toward
helping the next person do the job~
I have an excellent Mimeograph that
is available to run the Bulletin and
I would be pleased to take over that
task, which can be done in about 2
hours or less. If someone out there
has a good typewriter and can make up
the stencils it can be done rather
e~asily.
Collating, fo'Iding, · stapling,
amping and mailing take time and I
rind this to be the most laborious
part of the task. You've heard this
Swan Song before, you'll not hear it
again. Do we have a volunteer??????
THE 190
W6WWQ
K6CQF
W60SU
K6ZXE
W6RW
WGEUF
K60ZL
W6JKJ
K6ZR
WA6IQM
WA6EYK
WB6KBK
WA6NBY
K6RN
W6PT
W60AT
W6TS
K6AHV
WA6EYK
WB6GFJ
K6EC
K6AO
W6PN
WB6QDC
K6NA
K6VVA
W6NLZ
K6GA
W6FSJ
WA6CSR
VE7AUA/W6
W6BUO
WA6BUS
W6REH
W6CHV
W6HOC
W6UA
W6JZU
W6CA
WB6DSV
W6ID
K6VNX
K6AQV
W6UQQ
W6MBA
W6TCQ
WGABA
W6KNC
W6AWY
WGAOA
W6KZL
WA6WEI
WA6MWG
WB6QIT
WA60ET
W6ZBS
K6RA
W6ZTJ
W6FF
W60M
W6MUR
W6AJJ
W6QNA
K6QZ
W60WM
W6TC
W6RTN
K6ZO
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W6EJ
W6HYG
WB6LPK
The big effort of the· Jyear, Mt. Athos, W6DAB
WB600L
is now history and so far it has been
K6QHC
WB6YLG
the most exciting DXpedition since the W6KNH
W6HX
K6UJS
. Kingman trek a year earlier. The
W6PO
W60KK
efforts of Aris, SVlGA, and Martti,
. VE3DXV /W6
OH2BH, were superb under extremely try- WGDYQ
W60NZ
K6HTM
ing circumstances. It appears as tho
W60UN
K6ELX
most of those as needed it got it but
W6BZE
K6AFL
the SSB'ers are still looking. Only
K6LU
W6ARJ*
2 of the West Coast gang managed an
W6CQI
SSB contact. They were W6ARJ and W6FW. W6FW*
W6HVN
W6ZO
WGMZ
W6TSQ
A possible 2nd DXpedition may · show up
KGRQ
K6SSJ
in September but it is not certain.
W6ANN
WBGKBK
Keep tuned to the 2 meter DX Club reWB6BNB
K6AQ
peater and watch the West Coast DX
W6RGG
W6SC
Bulletin for future possibilities.
DJ6RX/W6 W6HJP
W6PAA
WB600P
~~sted herewith are the lucky ones
WA6PGB
W6KG
that managed a contact from WG with
WAGBVY
SVlGA/A. Included is a list of the
W6ISQ
WAGEYK
K6QW
totals from the U.S. mainland and JA.
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W6CHE
KGIO
K6QX
K6HIH
WBGKRW
WA6QGW
WGJKR
W6GPB
WA6NXB
WA6PMK
KGDYQ
WAGTQK
WBGLPK
WAGDKF
WAGSBO
W6TXL
W6DOD
W6DOT
WGDJH
K6ERT
K6EBB
W6LPM
WGCYV
WA6TUF
W6CCP
K6CQF
WB6AIN
KGRXZ
K6DC
WA6DIL
WGZM
WGEJ
WA6NKK
W6NUT
WB6DSV
W6KHI
W6RNF
W60WL
K4BVD/6
KGWR
WA6AHF
W6ACC
WB6ZUC
W6FOZ
K6RQ
K6LQA
WA6EPQ
WA6IPY
K6NH
WA6HRS
W6PNV
K6ZM
W6CUF
K6EV
W6EL
WA6TUF
W6ZGM
WGOWM
W6JRY
W6BH
WA6ISX
WGEJ
W6JKJ
W6WX
W6PTS
WBGOOL
K6KII
W6ANB
WA6DUG
K6ZO
W6KUT
W6NJU
WA6KZI
W6HYG
K6SVT
W6AM
Wl
W2
W3
W4
W5
W6
W7
wa
W9
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98
133
149
206
139
190
36
121
181
so
TOTAL:
3850
JA
369
FROM OH2BH
ON 14 MHz
TO W6MUR.
ACCURACY
NOT
GUARANTEED
A new slate of officers is now handling the affairs of the Club. The
new President is W6MUR; V.P. is Orm
K6QX; S~ci is W6PHF, Dave; the new
man with the money is E. Howard Hale
W6SC. Directors are: W6MAV, W6JZU,
and W6ISQ. Least known of the bunch
is probably the President, Bill Johnson, W6MUR. Thus I threw out the
drag net and came up with the following:
ABOUT THE PRESIDENT
Your new president, R. W. (Bill)
Johnson, W6MUR, moved back to the SF
area in 1972 after buying 6 acres of
redwoods in the Santa Cruz mountains
in 1971. Bill was originally froin
this area, born in San Francisco,
attending schools in Los Altos, San
Jose, and UC Berkeley, from which he
received the BSEE degree in 1943.
First licensed in San Jose in 1935 as
W6-MUR, Bill also holds first-cl-ass
radiotelephone and second-class radiotelegraph FCC tickets. He has been in
radio communications, missile test
range instrumentation, airborne radar
and nav-igational syst~ms, and industrial electronics work for all of his
·professional life. His first pro ...
fessional job was at the UC Lawrence
Radiation Laboratory, Manhattan Project, 1942-45.
He was a charter member of the Orange
County DX Club. He was chairman of the
Fresno DX conference one year, and
chairman o£ the 1971 Southwestern Division ARRL Convention at Disneyland • . . .---.. .
He formed Hamcom~ . Inc., as a permenan~;;
corporate umbrella for convention activities in the SW Division.
Bill is. a life Jllember of the ARRL and
also of the National Rifle Association,
QCWA, UC Alumni Association, Radio Club
of America, and belongs to the Associated ·Pub'lic Safety Communications Officers
(APCO). He has been an avid DXer since
the late 30's, but principal activity
has been since 1948. Bill now has 328
worked, 326 qonfirmed (cards needed
from FR7AM/G and· SViGA) including deletions. · His principal needs in DX are AC4,
FR7/T, MP4T, TL8, TN8, TZ, 3B6-7 St.
Brandon, VQ9 Aldabra, Desroches and
Farquhar, ZL Kermadec, Minerva, Bouvet,
Somali, Geyser, and Kingman. Inactive
periods coincided with Gus' trips and
Miller's trips.
Bill has a Henry 3K driven by KWS-1 (CW)
and 500 ex (SSB), R4B receiver, a 125-ft.
free-standing tower . with 3-el 4'0, 5 ,~--....
20,. 6 el 15, and & .el 10 meter beams.
An 80M dipole at 100 ft and a planned
Log Periodic Vertical for 80 (Europe)
complete the antennas. His main interest
is new countries, but he participates in
DX contes-t+s where there is need for club
scores. He is a member of the A-1 OpFor the past 17 years Bill has been a
erator .Club and is a high-speed CW enregistered consulting engineer, design- thusiast.
ing high-power systems and mobile radio
microwave communication systems. He
formed Codamite Corporation in 1962
IF YOU WERE ONE OF THOSE WHO WERE INTERto develop a miniature Morse/Baudot
keyboard and a miniature, mobile tele- ESTED IN THE CURTIS KEYER PROJECT, .·PLEASE
DROP ME ANOTHER NOTE. THE NAMES CAME IN
printer using digital stepper motors.
AT A VERY SLOW RATE AND WERE MISPLACED
The company was sold to Tracor, Inc.
in 1970 and Bill returned to full time OR LOST IN SOME CASES. I BELIEVE THAT
consulting.
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WE HAD ALMOST ENOUGH TO GO AHEAD WITH
THAT PROJECT, HOWEVER, I WOULD LIKE TO
GET A RECOUNT FROM THOSE OF YOU WHO MAY
A prolific author, Bill has written
STILL BE INTERESTED. JACK TELLS ME THAT
many articles for amateur and proHARLEY, WA6ISX, MAY BE -INTERESTED IN
fessional magazines and one popular
TAKING OVER THE PROJECT SHOULD THERE BE
book, flowing from a year of graduate
SUFFICIENT OF YOU OUT THERE WHO WANT TO
work in law he undertook in 1960. He
DO
IT. PLEASE ADVISE AGAIN ••• WE NEE ~ A
was president of the Southern Calif.
MINIMUM
OF 50 TO MAKE IT GO. ASK A
DX Club in the early 1950's, and instFRIEND
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WHO IS NOT NECESSARILY A CLUB
ituted the DXer award and associate
member classification during his term. MEMBER. PLEASE ADVISE.
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MESSAGE FROM TH~ PRESIDENT
Prose Walker told me the other night
that in the U.S. we are losing 430
amateurs per month, and that the avlge age of hams is now 43. CB
applications continue to pour in
well over 100,000 per month.
As I look over our DX Club, I see the
white sidewalls and bifocals (including my own) and realize that in 10-15
years our club will wither and die
unless we bring in new, young members
and make them welcome.
My goals during this term are (l) to
infect as many young people as possible with the DX virus and urge them
to join the club and (2) to make our
repeater into a reliable machine,
hopefully with repeater-linking when
the FCC permits it. Wouldn't it be
nice to be able to reach DXers through
out the western states?
Toward these goals we need by-laws
changes, and stimulants to our Repeater Committee. Your Board of Dire_~tors on August 3 took the first
s ps on both actions. We will be
drafting revisions to the By-Laws to
be presented to the Board at the Sept.
7th meeting, and later to the membership. Your suggestions will be most
welcome; send them to me. We are
organizing a DX seminar especially
for young people and other new hams
to be held on September 5. We are
instructing the Repeater Committee to
go full-speed ahead on a reliable,
solid-state system.
The job of club officer or director
is not ceremonial or honorary.
It is
a working job, and those that can't
or won't work shouldn't be elected.
The same goes for our committee chairmen.
I view my own job seriously and
ask for the support of the membership,
setting all personalities aside.
Let
us consider what is best for Amateur
Radio first, the DX Club next, and
self-interest last. We have an interna~ional conference coming up in a few
y r 'S that could mean the end of Amateur Radio; let's not forget that, even
for a moment. Our days are numbered
unless we revitalize our ranks, not
with appliance operators but with true
HAMS in every sense of the word.
_ TAKE HEED - The following is taken from
the July 21st, 1975 issue of Radio &
Television Weekly - a publication for
Radio & TV Parts Distributors •••••••
Washington, D.C. - The citizens radio
market continues its explosive growth.
Class D citizens radio license applications are being received by the Federal
Communications Commission at record
rates. For the five-month period ending May 31, the commission received a
total of 615,212 applications, a 243
percent increase over the first five
months of 1974, when 179,397 applicatlons were received.
This underscores the significance of the
CB seminar held at NEWCOM '75 (Las Vegas)
entitled, "Harnessing the CB Radio Explosion". The luncheon featuring Ray
Spence, chief engineer, FCC, was sold
out with 850 attending.
Mr. Spence described the means by which
the FCC plans to expand personal and
amateur communications capabilities in
the near future. Following the luncheon,
an adjacent room was filled to overflowing with. those who could not get luncheon tickets swelling attendance to 1,000
to 1,250 persons.
A major current commission problem is
handling the volume of license applications in the citizens service. The total
of 30 full time and 10 part time workers
at Gettysburg handle over 225,000 pieces
of mail pe.r month. The problem is that
this staff is at fully authorized
strength and an increase in the budget
is required. to add more people to accomodate the increased work load now being
experienced.
-
...-
There is much more to the above article
than I have taken excerpts of for our
readers, however, this little bit will
certainly indicate to you the potential
loss of some of the amateur frequencies
to this ever growing list of CBers and
the manufacturers of equipment for them.
Take heed in the necessity for us as a
concerned group to do all we can to prevent any losses to our own frequencies
and above all the quality of the participants. We can encourage more of the
younger people who are interested in
r•adio to join the amateur ranks. - Ed.
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MORE ON MT. ATHOS
27 July 1975
Dear Bob,
Just a short note to give you my
impressions 6f the Mt. Athos effort
by Aris and Martti now that it is
apparently over.
Having m.e t Martti several times
in the u.s. and being with him a good
bit in Europe since I moved here, I
am absolutely convinced that he is
extremely sincere ~nd dedicated to
the DXpedition activities.
I know
that both he and Aris really worked
hard to work as many West Coast stations as possible given the things as
they were.
I don't know Aris as well
but I have the same general feeling
for him as I do for Martti.
Martti and I talked on the telephone before he left at great length.
I really worked on him to convince
him to go ahead with the trip even
if Pete and I could. not go along.
Martti really had his heart set on
going and has so for a couple of yrs.
He was really greatly worried abou~
his reputation with all the West
Coast people if the trip was not an
outstanding success due to conditions, lack of equipment, whatever.
I
could really feel that he was considering pulling out When Pete and I
were ruled out by the Greek officialdom, because he felt that he could
not do all of the necessary operating, we didn't have enough people to
get things there, etal. As I said
before, it took a great deal of persuasion by me and by you and your
telexes, telephone calls, etal. to
get him to go.
Please do everything you can to
make certain that Martti doesn't receive any kind of bum rap from the
West Coast guys on any basis: such
as, "if the W6 guys had been there
they would have worked us"; "they
only worked East Coast'',; "Why didn't they try long path----Of course, I was unhappy not to
be able to go along, but the Greek
officialdom settled that. As a
matter of fact, I was in Rome during the week before ready to come
over to Athens if the last ditch
effort by Martti and Aris could
turn around the officials. Martti
and I had phone numbers to work with
just , in case. Martti told me from Athens
that the situation with the U.S. was even
worse than he had been led to believe, so
there was no hope. Well, I enjoyed being
a part of the planning and there will ,...---.... __
ways be another day, I hope.
I just hope that many of the fellows
on the West Coast did manage a QSO with
the Mt. Athos group, but I only heard one
such session on the evening of 23 July
about 2115Z.
I checked with Aris each
morning at Mt. Athos but he didn't sound
as though there had been-great success,
but details I do not know as yet.
On a new subject and getting ready
for the future, I have found that my tele~
in the IBM office is a real telex machine
and not tied only to the IBM network.
The number is •••• in the Netherlands.
In the directory it will be found under
IBM Diamantbeurs. What is the number you
use with Phil?
Again, I hope the guys on the West
Coast did manage to work Mt. Athos this
time!
Brad - K6WR
PA0WRR
-
...-
From Frank Anzalone, WlWY
Dear Bob,
The Southern Cal. group had indicated
that they wanted to donate a Trophy for
our WW Contest ••••••
The Contest announcement will be published ve~y soon •••••
I will list it as:
Single Operator
Single Band
for the USA on
Phone.
Please check and let me know.
The Northern Illinois group is sponsoring one for CW.
73,
-
...-
Frank, WlWY
'
Seems like Frank is trying to tell us
something.
Like "Are you guys in Northern
California going to be outdone by those
blokes in So. Cal.?" Or. "Would your
NCDXC guys like to sponsor an award"?
Anyone have any suggestions or ideas?
We need to get the info to Frank ASAP.
PAGE 9
-ITEMS STILL ON SALE FROM THE ESTATE
of WA6IDF.
DRAKE MODEL TR-4, Transceiver
Includes P.S
~KE MODEL RV-4, Remote VFO
DRAKE MODEL MC-4, Mobile Console·
. r
$38~
69
29
COLLINS MODEL 75A4, S/N 3954
299
CASLON 24 Hour Digital Clock
19
JOHNSON VIKING RANGER
Excellent Condx.
JOHNSON MODEL 6N2
79
60
JOHNSON
10
6N2 VFO
JOHNSON - Mobile VFO
10
TELETYPE MODEL 19, Table Mounted
with Tape Reader and Perf
$100
3 ea •. PAMOTOR MODEL 4800 Pancake
fans.
$ each
FOR SALE - 63 Foot Aermotor Tower (3 Post Self Supporting, Hurricane-Style)
Includes Telrex 10-15-20 Mtr. Beam, CD
Rotator, with Coax and Control Cables
but no control box. Buyer responsible
for removal from hillside site. Will
accept best offer around $500. Contact
Rev. Daniel Dolan at Maryknoll, Box 4278
Mountain View, CA 94040 - Tel: 415 9673822.
FOR SALE - Mint HT-37 $135.00; Aerotron
sod AM 2 Mtr. Transceiver $35.00;
Johnson Viking KW Pedestal (No desk)
$225.00. Call Stan, W6JKJ 408 736-8358
FOR SALE - Collins 75A4, Perfect Condition. Like new Serial Number 4081, with
3 Mechanical Filters, Matching Speaker
with lite. Incl. Maint. Manual. Must
sell - Sacrifice at $295.60 or offer.
K6QZ, Rich Lawton, Home Ph. 408 298-0691
After 6:00 P.M.
- . . -. -
8
CONTEST CALENDAR
JOHNSON - Phone Patch
10
SPEECH Compressor
10
SIMPSON MODEL 240 Volt, Ohm Mtr.
3
TELEX Model 1210 Earphones
5
BUD 6 Foot Cabinet Rack & Power
supply - Condition unknown on
P/S - Cabinet appears new
35
JOHNSON - 250 Watt Matchbox
Model 250-23
50
VIBROPLEX.- Bug, keyer
9
NATIONAL, Model MB-40 Tuning Unit
Suitable for final of exciter or
grid input on High Power Amp.
15
HAMMARLUND - 12 Inch Speaker in
Cabinet
AUG.
AUG.
AUG.
AUG.
AUG.
AUG.
AUG.
AUG.
9-10 European CW DX Contest
9-10 Argentina Phone Contest
16-18 QRP ARCI Contest
16-18 New Jersey QSO Party
23-24 All Asian CW Contest
23-24 Arizona QSO Party
30-31 SSA 50th Aniv. Contest
30-31 MARTS SEANET Contest
SEPT. 6-7 ARRL VHF QSO Party
SEPT. 6-8 Maryland D.C. QSO Party
SEPT. 6-8 Four Land QSO Party
SEPT. 6-8 Kentucky QSO Party
SEPT.l3-14 EUROPEAN DX PHONE CONTEST
SEPT.l3-14 Pennsyl~ania QSO Party
SEPT.l3-15 Washington State QSO Party
SEPT.20-21 VE/W Contest
SEPT.20-21 Scandinavian CW Contest
SEPT.27-28 Scandinavian Phone Contest
SEPT.27-29 Delta QSO Party
OCT. 4-5 CALIFORNIA QSO PARTY
oct. 4-5 Rocky Mounta1n QSO Party
15
There are many other miscellaneous
items too small to list here. Also
available are issues of QST, CQ &
other publications, most in Binders.
• • •
I have taken the liberty of making up
some large mailing cards which will be
inserted into each DX Bulletin for your
use in reporting for the month. These
r~ease advise if you know of any
are addressed to John Brand, K6RXZ. It
Auctions, Flea Market Sales etc. for
is our hope that you will fill them out
selling other small items etc. Tnx.
and mail them in, so that your standings
can be updated etc. Perhaps you will
Contact - K6SSJ for any of above.
find this easier than taking a page out
of the DX Bulletin.
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73, K6SSJ