[SECC] Bill Windle QSO Party - June 11, 2005

[John Laney]

Also N4XP, K4OAH, K4EWG, AA4Z in Georgia are FOC members.  W3VT was in 
SC, but has recently moved back north.  K4DL was in Alabama, but is now 
in Washington state.  W4CK in Tennessee was formerly in Auburn, AL.  No 
doubt there are others that didn't immediately come to mind.  The late 
K4II and N4LS were FOC members in SC.

The 500 membership is not fully prescribed.  Any CW opr who would like 
to be a member should hang out for ragchews around 025 khz and will 
likely eventually be nominated.  It takes two QSOs on two different 
bands within the past year, so any requests to QSY to another band 
should be honored.  It is considered bad form to ask for nomination, but 
isn't bad form to mention FOC in a QSO with a member.  Guests are always 
welcome at FOC social functions.  N4GG is a former FOC member, who 
dropped out when he became inactive about 15 years ago.

The idea of the BW QSO Parties is to give non-members a chance to work 
members and vice versa.  Certainly, don't do it if you don't want to, 
but a lot of us found the BW QSO Party last October a lot of fun.

73,


John, K4BAI.