[IRCA] Getting us back on the track?

[Charles A Taylor <MWDXer@xxxxxxx>]

At 03:41 PM 3/9/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear IRCA,
>
>As an outsider, it would be AWESOME to read here some "DX" (emphasised) 
>postings, rather than the hundreds of useless commentary, grunts and 
>unnessary body sounds.  Perhaps just me, but it's no wonder QSLing has 
>declined over the years... someone should re-evaulate the hobby and 
>perhaps (again just me) take a good look at these IRCA mailings - perhaps 
>adding an "OT" at the start of the subject line (allowing moi to quickly 
>discard such garb - I do have a life!)  If I were in the radio business... 
>and received these mailings... I'd run like hell !  (Save yourself 
>man!!!)  In the hundreds, even thousand mailings received over such a 
>short period of time - there is very little DX... thanks to those who 
>value the hobby and have only professional things to add.
>
>And as was mentioned in a previous posting, if this posting is indeed 
>distributed to station "professionals", I would enjoy receiving and value 
>their comments - sent directly to me.
>
>73s (a "DX" term - remember that?),
>Konnie
>S CT
>
>____

Konnie,

Thought over what you said, and you have a point. We maybe could have cut 
the discussion about DXers of days past, but I think we have a topic that 
transcends the mundaneness of DX.

What we have here is a discussion of some BIG guys who made some real 
contributions to the NRC and IRCA. Some brethern who have gone Silent Key,
as the hams say, and who are with us no longer. My heart grieves over some 
of these. Donald Erickson to name one!

It seems that we need to start a GENEALOGY of DXers, and put together bios 
that will go into the reprint list and onto the IRCA website.

One of the strangest of us was C. M. Stanbury II.  Then there was the 
little-discussed Ronald F. Schatz. Ron died of a heart attack, and thus 
departed one of my greatest friends ever.

Ray B. Edge, Ernest R. Cooper, Maurice Nittler. I would have liked to know 
about Hal Wagner and Carroll Seth, But their passing was right at the time 
when NRC club membership was new and DXN worth more than any newspaper to me.

And who did the WEYRICH LOG?

Will full bios ever get committed to paper or bytes?

73,

Charles


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Charles A Taylor, WD4INP
Greenville, North Carolina 


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