[SECC] W4AN

[Tommy]

Larry,

Very interesting post, with merits.

However, please allow me to disagree with just one point you made, and that
is about this being a 'controversy'. As I understand it, the reflector is
the official meeting place for the SECC. I personally believe these
discussions are an interesting an integral part of the way the SECC was
formed.

If we don't have the discussions here, what we are doing is turning over all
of the decision making (without our input) to the club officers. That's not
all bad, but gosh some of these guys are getting OLD! For instance, Ed
(nickname for Jack Benny), I think he is soon going to turn age 39 soon!!
Goodness!

As I recently mentioned to Jeff, there is nothing at all wrong with
constructive disagreements among members. Isn't it true that the best
decision only comes from analyzing numerous and different inputs?

I personally agree with your suggestion. Retirement of W4AN with a
significant memorial page on the SECC web site is much more productive than
trying to legislate who can and who can not have access to the call.

Not only was Bill a competitor, he was well known for his love of helping
folks. I think he would be very unhappy if we did not do what ever was
necessary to make the call available to each and every SECC member.

Tommy

W4BQF

-----Original Message-----
From: secc-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:secc-bounces at contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Larry Phillips
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 1:25 PM
To: SECC
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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