[SEDXC] First GQP was in 1962

[John Laney]

See the message below from W6OAT, the first GQP chairman.  We may want 
to have some special celebration for GQP in 2012.  Unfortunately, it 
will not be the 51st GQP.  Columbus Amateur Radio Club sponsored it for 
many years.  K4BVD went off to school and moved away.  We had other 
titled chairpersons over the years (K4RHU, K4ADU (later KR4M), K4VGI), 
but it all fell to me to do the work and I finally burned out after 20 
years or more.  The Atlanta club (KI4Y) volunteered to take it over, but 
it was never much of an event.  Maybe later on the Dixie DXers may have 
sponsored it for a while (N4UZ) including one joint party with Alabama 
(WA4FAT).  Then WB4EVH individually sponsored it for a few years.  There 
were no doubt some years when there was no GQP, but it never was 
properly promoted and there was little activity until SECC/SEDXC took it 
over beginning in 1999.  But, it will still mark the 50th year since the 
original GQP in 1962.

73,

John, K4BAI.