Silent Key: WBØLFH

Harold Childress, WBØLFH, president of the QCWA Sunflower Chapter 79, passed away on Monday, January 17, 2022. His celebration of life will be at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, January 22, at Brookside United Methodist Church, 2760 S. Roosevelt St., Wichita, KS.

No meetings for now

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, QCWA Sunflower Chapter 79 is suspending its meetings until further notice.

If you’re a member, watch your e-mail for word of when meetings will start again. Everyone else who may be interested in QCWA, watch this space for that notice.

Everyone stay home and stay safe. We hope to see you when this is all over.

Preview: February 25, 2020

The first QCWA Chapter 79 meeting of 2020 will be at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, February 25, at our usual place, Spear’s Restaurant, 4323 West Maple St., Wichita.

We will not have a program.

We will have an all-member forum to discuss the future of the chapter, its leadership, what members want in future activities and meetings, and how to improve both our membership rolls and meeting attendance.

We are hoping that we can elect three people to assume leadership positions in our chapter at this meeting. We need all three officer positions: president, vice president, and secretary-treasurer.

Will you please nominate yourself to help our chapter? You can nominate someone else who is willing to serve if elected.

All members are encouraged to attend this very important meeting and bring their thoughts and ideas on how to keep our chapter alive.

Minutes: December 17, 2019

The meeting was called to order at 1845 by Larry Cannon, KØSFV, secretary.

Joe Pajor, KBØKFH, introduced our guest speaker, Tony Haidai, NØXXU. Tony is a retired master sergeant in the Kansas Air National Guard/U.S. Air Force with 26 years of total service. He was employed in flight simulation at the Flight Safety Lear Jet Learning Center at KICT for 16 years retiring in 2016. Currently he is an adjunct instructor at Butler County Community College. Tony has been in amateur astronomy since 1968, and has been in the Kansas Astronomical Observers as vice president, treasurer and secretary since 2000. He has held amateur radio Technician-class license NØXXU since 1987. Tony gave a very interesting PowerPoint presentation that included a lot of photos taken by amateur astronomers of the moon, nebulas, and galaxies. He talked about radio astronomy, a subfield of astronomy.

Following the program, no business was conducted due to not having a quorum present.

Meeting adjourned at 1940.

Preview: December 17, 2019

Please note: We will be meeting one week earlier than usual, due to the Christmas holiday.

Joe Pajor, KBØKFH, has lined up another great program for us for our last meeting of the year. It will be of general interest in connection with the Christmas season.

We need to elect officers for 2020 since we didn’t have time to do that at the October meeting. All offices are open for nominations: President, Vice President, and Secretary-Treasurer.

We hope to see you there. As always, you are welcome to bring your spouse or another friend.

Minutes: October 29, 2019

President Harold Childress, WBØLFH, called the meeting to order at 1900.

Joe Pajor, KBØKFH, introduced Jim Stafford, AJ5BS, who presented Part 2 of “My Submarine Career.”

He served aboard USS Seawolf (SSN 575) from 1972 to 1975. His talk included information about the nuclear reactors on board submarines and other general information about serving on submarines.

He answered questions from the audience, and his program concluded at 2025.

We didn’t have a business meeting after the program since the restaurant was closing. Election of officers will be at the December meeting.

Meeting was adjourned at 2030.

Minutes: August 27, 2019

President Harold Childress, WBØLFH, called the meeting to order at 1845.

Joseph T. Pajor, KBØKFH, introduced Scott Knebel, planning manager at the Wichita-Sedgwick County Metropolitan Area Planning Department.

Scott presented an interesting program titled “Presentation on Wireless Master Plan.” He told us that most cell phone cell sites in residential areas are located on city rights of way. Cities can’t require a cell site to be justified and that a lot of them are built by companies who sell tower space to various cell phone providers. Sites can use galvanized steel towers or poles to support antennas.

The minutes of the June 25th meeting and treasurer’s report were approved as printed and e-mailed. Motion by Jerry Kahn, ACØRL, second by Joe Pajor.

President Childress said that we need nominees for all chapter offices, President, Vice President, and Secretary-Treasurer, for election at the October meeting.

There was a discussion about our chapter having a table at the Hutchinson and Wichita hamfests. Bryon Cannon, KAØIIU, will check the national QCWA web site to see what is available in the way of handout pamphlets, etc.

Meeting was adjourned at 1958.