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Subject: [SECC] W4AN
From: ku8e at bellsouth.net (ku8e@bellsouth.net)
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:52:09 -0400
Pasted one of my links wrong... Also see http://www.kkn.net/gallery/w4an


> 
> From: <ku8e at bellsouth.net>
> Date: 2005/04/20 Wed PM 03:46:10 EDT
> To: <secc at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [SECC] W4AN
> 
> 
> Just the point I was trying to make. The call should be used for only special 
> events.
> I can't understand why all of a sudden people are making a big fuss over 
> using the
> club call when we had another call - and 2x1 call that was available before 
> we got
> W4AN ???
> 
> For those of you that did not know Bill he was a special person. See the 
> following links
> on his many accomplishments to contesting and our hobby :
> =======================================================
> ARRL :
> See http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/04/05/101/?nc=1
> =======================================================
> Sprint : First Entry to break 400 QSO's :
> http://www.ncjweb.com/cwsprint092003.pdf
> http://www.ncjweb.com/cwsprint092003.pdf
> =======================================================
> W4AN set the USA record in the 1999 CQWW CW contest with 
> 8,279,616 points   4301 QSOs  175 zones  521 countries
> 
> See his diary of his trip to Dayton in 2000 where he gave a presentation
> on his CQWW CW effort  - http://www.contesting.com/articles/11
> ======================================================
> http://www.contesting.com/articles/11
> ======================================================
> 
> Maybe AE4Y can incorporate some of this into the SECC webpage ????
> 
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > From: "Larry Phillips" <k4pic at alltel.net>
> > Date: 2005/04/20 Wed PM 01:24:37 EDT
> > To: "SECC" <secc at contesting.com>
> > Subject: [SECC] W4AN
> > 
> > SECC members,
> > 
> > I don't usually get involved in the controversies that sometimes erupt on 
> > the reflector
> > but would like to express my opinion regarding the use of Bill Fisher's 
> > call 
> > 'W4AN'.
> > I did not know Bill personally. I worked him in contests back in the early 
> > and mid 90's
> > when he still had the call KM9P (I believe). From all I've heard about Bill 
> > he was a
> > person of respect and admiration as well as a very talented contester, one 
> > of the best.
> > I believe that when someone reaches the stature, in their field of 
> > endeavor, 
> > that Bill
> > accomplished in ham radio and contesting that the greatest honor that we 
> > could do
> > Bill would be to RETIRE the call "W4AN". It is now the call of the SECC, 
> > which Bill
> > was a co-founder, and we have the unique opportunity of preserving that 
> > call 
> > in Bill's
> > name ONLY. I wish that someone would compile a listing of Bill's 
> > accomplishments
> > and place them in a page on the SECC website and under the "W4AN" on the web
> > site's home page it would be nice to add " In memory of Bill Fisher". Not 
> > only do I
> > suggest that the retirement of call W4AN be appropriate in honor of Bill 
> > Fisher but
> > that it would end the probably never ending haggling over who gets to use 
> > the call
> > for whatever contest which I suspect that the majority of the SECC members 
> > are
> > finding distasteful at best. It is not my intention to prolong the 
> > "discussion" over the
> > use of W4AN on this reflector or to create a new "discussion" over the 
> > comments
> > I've made above. It seems like a resonable solution, to me, regarding the 
> > current
> > debate over the use of the W4AN callsign and at the same time doing the 
> > right thing.
> > I hope everyone will give it some serious thought and consider what is 
> > really best for
> > the SECC.
> > 
> > 73, K4PIC
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 
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