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Monday, December 15, 2008

1979: DELAWARE VALLEY RADIO ASSOCIATION CHRISTMAS MESSAGES


Can it be that nearly 30 years have gone by since we DVRA members trudged over to Quaker Bridge Mall and set up the annual amateur radio station? Mall walkers from all over the area stopped by to send a message to that relative, whether in nearby Princeton, or on the other side of the world in Australia. This photo brings back fond memories of the late Leon "Robby" Robinson (K3MNX), and the late Ernie Forte, whose call sign I can't seem to recall even after all those daily conversations we had on the W2ZQ repeater of the Delaware Valley Radio Association. Thankfully, Bob Schroeder is still with us. He has changed call signs from that old familair WA2JZF to today's N2HX. Mark "Markie" Holcombe (Wa2DWY) is also alive and well, even though he has moved out of the area. Those years I spent as an active member of the DVRA are full of very pleasant memories with amateur colleagues who were absolutely the very best. I will keep and treasure those memories until I become what we hams call a "silent key."
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  1. UnknownThursday, January 10, 2019

    That was one of my first activities with club as Jill and I just moved down here in February 1979. Regular meeting back then were at CD-DC offices on Scotch Road.

    We set up the tables each year on the second floor in front of Macy's and over looking the atrium. There was a coax run up through the roof to where we affixed a VHF antenna.

    Messages were gathered from the shoppers, composed into Radiograms, sent via VHF to the Club Station out at the airport, and there by HF into the National Traffic System. It was very popular as long distance telephone calls were still expensive!

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