Greater Beloit Amateur Radio Club              January 2012
 Paid up members in good standing.
AA9EP Dale Smith   Clinton    
K9BNR Robert (Bob) Barker k9bnr@arrl.net Milton    
K9DA Donn Ambros   Janesville    
K9EP Gerald (Jerry) Walden k9ep@arrl.net Madison    
K9GJN Greg Niles   Janesville    
KC9QQN Terry Hawkins   Milton    
KC9QQO Alan Homan kc9qqo@arrl.net Janesville    
KC9RGG Norman Aulobaugh   Orfordville    
KC9RLI Michael Fuller kc9rli@arrl.net Janesville    
KC9UQD David Rounds   Beloit    
N9GQ David Wendt n9gq@arrl.net Janesville    
N9JDQ David Fisher n9jdq@charter.net Janesville    
N9KMO Ken Olson n9kmo@arrl.net Rockton, IL    
N9UBJ (Expired) Kim Burkhalter   Janesville    
W9AFW Ivan Makovec   Beloit    
W9BJ Carl Cramer w9bj@arrl.net Janesville    
W9DL Conrad Herold w9dl@arrl.net Clinton    
WA9JLD Lyndon Opdyke   Beloit    
WD9BB Chuck Bell   Clinton    

                                   

and many more to come.                                                                                           

                                                                                                                                                                                    

Memories of Long Ago  (September 26, 2003  Excerpt from The Beloit Daily News.)
    

John, W9FCY, age 92, views photos with Conrad Herold,            John receives a plaque from radio club President,

W9DL, a Beloit Amateur Radio Club member.                                      Paul Monroe, W9MEH.                                              

          

Conrad presents a cake to John during the celebration.    John worked for WCLO, Janesville.  He earned a first class

                                                                                                              commercial radio license.  Equipment at right is WWII surplus.

John Purcell, W9FCY, of Beloit earned an amateur radio (Ham) license in 1928.  He has made radio contacts around the world.  "It's a very interesting hobby," Purcell said, "It's changing all the time." 

John worked at commercial broadcasting station WCLO in Janesville.  One incident he remembered was that the station power supply went bad.  John had to bring in his ham radio power supply to keep WCLO on the air.

Purcell's interest in amateur radio remained constant over the years.  He headed up the local Civil Defense program for decades and was one of several radio operators who assisted emergency personnel in Beloit during the flood of 1974.

In addition to giving, Purcell also received a meaningful gift from radio operation.  "I was talking with a guy in Africa and it just happened that he was in the same town as my daughter and son-in-law", Purcell recalled.  Through that ham radio contact, Purcell was able to regularly keep in touch with his family members who served as Christian missionaries to the Cameroons for many years.


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