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THE RESULTS ARE IN and Tom Warren rose to
the top of the stack of 54 contestants to take the grand prize for
High Total Score. Tom's win is especially impressive given
that he finished with the High Phone and High CW scores as well.
Congrats are also due Ron Jocher, John Drum, Ed Weston II, and William Ash
for finishing out the top five slots. Bob Heater was our top active
employee in the contest, and Donald Younger and Tom Nevue get a tip of the
hat for top QRP and top non-Bell respectively. (This was Tom's 11th year
of taking part in the contest, an impressive record for a non-Bell-System
ham.)
We hope you enjoyed the contest and we look forward to meeting you on the
air next November, if not before. We're still looking for a Contest Host
to design a Certificate for this year's contest. If you're interested in
highlighting your location, get in contact with one of the contest committee
members and let's make it happen!
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ANOTHER CQ-WE goes into the history books.
The bands were not in the best shape, but they were passable. And we seemed
to have quite an up-tick in ZZs this year. However, we also heard several
complaints about the number of contestants being down overall (time will
tell). But we still managed to have a lot of fun in the contest and that's
the important thing.
For some of the old familiar calls I hear in the contest each
November it's the only time I have the opportunity to catch them on the air.
So, enjoy the glow that comes from having taken part in another successful
contest, but don't forget to submit your logs by December 1st. If you
used the logger, it should be easy — just follow the instructions.
And thanks for doing your part to keep CQ-WE a viable and celebratorial
event after almost 60 years of contests honoring the Bell System..
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HAVE A QUESTION about CQ-WE? Email the
National Coordinator.
Interested in discussing the contest or just want to keep in touch?
Feel free to join
Ma-Bell-Hams,
a Yahoo E-mail Group where such discussions are welcome:
Just enter your email address in the space below and click "Join Now!".
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CONTEST HOST:
The role of Contest Host is an important one, and we appreciate the time
and effort the various locations have put into designing and distributing
their certificates in years past.
We are therefore pleased to announce that brothers Ken and Al Hanzl, W2IOC
and K2AL, with the help of their non-ham sister Joan, will produce the certs
for the 2017 contest. The certs will highlight the Kearny location. Their
father, the original holder of the W2IOC call, worked at Kearny for 42 years
so the family has a rich history in the location. We look forward to seeing
this year's certificate.
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HELP US COMPILE a Historical Record of our Bell System Locations and Ham Clubs:
A big part of the CQ-WE contest is communicating with as many different
Location Codes
as possible. The locations these codes represent made up the once great
Bell System.
Today, many — actually, most — of these locations, along
with their location-sanctioned ham clubs, are either defunct or a shadow of
their former selves.
The CQ-WE committee is undertaking a project to resurrect
and preserve a history of the various Bell System locations before this
information and heritage is permanently lost. But, its success depends
on you! Please check our
Location Histories
page, and if you can provide some information on a missing location —
or additional information on one that has already been published —
consider authoring a short article describing your location. If it supported
a corporate ham club, please include your remembrances of that, too. Use
the existing write-ups as guides for style and format. Please send your
material to the CQ-WE webmaster,
cqwe-web-2016@cboh.org,
and we'll put it up on the web site to highlight your location for posterity,
and even give you credit in the byline.
By taking a few minutes to document what you know from your personal
experience with AT&T and its subsidiaries, we hope to preserve some
of the rich history of the many facets of the once proud and great
Bell System.
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