600M Band opened for Experimental License
Fessenden 100th Anniversary - 100 years of radio voice... www.radiocom.net/Fessenden ...
9-15-2006 Experimental operation
authorized on 505-510 khz. http://500kc.com/
Band is open and operable now. See Logs of stations worked and
heard.
http://w5jgv.com/cgi-bin/csvread.pl
73s de Dave - AA1A - WD2XSH/17 - 4150M
A real life saga in a Pan American Clipper
during the beginning of WW2... www.radiocom.net/Clipper
Ride home with the crew via the 'Long Path'
Who We Are Membership Board of Officers
Net Times and Frequencies High Speed Code Practice
SOWP Roundup
Application
Wireless
Pioneers 2002
Members and Distinguished Others
SOWP
Information
The Society of Wireless Pioneers (SOWP) is dedicated to the collection and preservation of the history of communications, particularly wireless and radio telegraphy. SOWP is also a strong influence against efforts to eradicate CW as a mode of communications.
Stories, reviews, and news items are published regularly in the Society newsletter, The World Wireless Beacon. Regular contact with members is maintained on several amateur nets. Society activities include Chapter meetings and nets, a low-stress QSO Party-style contest, and similar events.
Although the foundation of the Society's structure is the Professional Operating Member, SOWP recognizes that there are many whose interests in wireless communications are just as deep. These include inventors and entrepreneurs, researchers and engineers, technicians, instructors, and authors and writers who have recorded the written knowledge of the art. SOWP also has a place for historians and collectors, who preserve our history and memorabilia.
If you have been a professional wireless operator, or are deeply interested in any of the areas of this great field noted above we invite you to inquire about membership in the Society. We may have a place for YOU!
For additional information contact SOWP Headquarters, Waldo T Boyd, Box 86, Geyserville, Ca. 95441-0086
or e-mail Waldo T. Boyd, Exec. Sec. k6dzy@sonic.net ...
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Waldo
T Boyd, 12 Chapala Drive, Santa Rosa CA 95403
k6dzy@sonic.net
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rights reserved
An Invitation to Join
The
Society of Wireless Pioneers
The Society of Wireless Pioneers is an unique and outstanding society of professionals and amateurs nearly all of whom have a common bond of having mastered the art of communicating over world-distances via "Morse Code" with hand key or "bug." Many of us have had the weight of responsibility for safety of life directly upon our shoulders. We traveled and were paid for it. At the core of everything we did was our ability to hear through atmospheric noise and make sense of "dits" and "dahs," voiced code-words, and even at times to "make sense" out of unusual silences. And in our Ham operating today the thrill is still present; we have a language that relatively few members of the world's population even remotely comprehends.
The art and science of wireless communicating is changing more and more rapidly as each year comes into focus and disappears over the horizon. But in spite of the adoption of geo-positioning satellites, burst transmissions at thousands of characters per second, and spread-spectrum techniques for making our communications confidential, CW is an art that will be with us for centuries to come. It is done with the minds and muscles of man, the only artifacts being the key and the ear and their meld with the mind.
Our Society is dedicated to the preservation of both the history and the art of CW communication, and of its offshoots. We collect and preserve the history of each advance in the art, but our hearts remain with Morse, and we are content to know that one day someone's life may be in our hands and only our knowledge of Morse Code will bring help to preserve that life.
Along the way we publish a quarterly newsletter, The World Wireless Beacon. From time to time we publish Sparks Journal, a special historical perspective, and a Register of Members. There are arm patches, caps, and other items available from the "Slop-Chest" bos'n. We have independently financed chapters and periodic "Nets" conducted by those of us active in Amateur Radio. High-speed code practice is conducted on a regular basis. While the prime objective of The Society of Wireless Pioneers is that of recording the history of Wireless and Radio from its beginning, including the preservation of memorabilia pertaining to our modes of communication, we also bring together those with this common bond, reuniting fraternally with shipmates and associates of bye-gone days as well as meeting and conversing with those now engaged in communication in its many modern forms.
The work incident to keeping the Society on a steady course is carried on by officers and members, all of whom volunteer their services and time without pay, a deserving tribute to our founder, William A. 'Bill' Breniman, who remained at our helm for over 20 years! Ours is a not-for-profit corporation registered in the State of California USA, with 501-c-3 IRS and post-office status. We invite you to apply for membership in our world-wide organization. If you are interested in fraternalism, memorabilia, and history of wireless and radio communications above and beyond the call of duty, we invite you to complete the accompanying application and return it to the address thereon. We'll do the rest.
73, Waldo T. Boyd, K6DZY, Executive Secretary, SOWP
12 Chapala Drive, Santa Rosa CA 95403
k6dzy@sonic.net
High Speed Code Practice is offered by the ARRL Monday through
Friday
throughout the year at 35, 30, 25, 20, 15, 13 and 10 wpm on 8 amateur
bands.
For details, see the "W1AW Schedule" in each
month's QST.
SOWP
Nets & Schedules
|
Net |
Date |
Time (local) |
Time (UTC) |
Freq |
NCS (ANCS |
|
Arthur E. Schermerhorn |
Mon. |
20:00 ET |
|
7052 |
N6SL-Ben |
| HK Warner Memorial Transcontinental Net | Thu | 11:00 ET |
15Z Summer 16Z Winter |
14055 | N6SL-Ben |
|
Eugene Klein W4GC |
Thu. | 20:00 ET | 7052 |
N6SL-Ben | |
|
Richard Johnstone |
Thu. |
20:00 PT |
3555 |
W6BNB-Bob | |
|
Yankee East Coast |
Sat |
10:30 ET |
|
14055 |
W8TP-Ted |
The Society of Wireless Pioneers, Inc.
Waldo
T Boyd, 12 Chapala Drive, Santa Rosa CA 95403
copyright ©
1999-2002, The
Society, all rights reserved
SOWP
Officers and Board of Governors
Waldo
T Boyd, 12 Chapala Drive, Santa Rosa CA 95403
e-mail: k6dzy@sonic.net
Joseph V. Gardner, K7CI, Rt. 7 Box 574B, Fairmont, WV
26554
e-mail: k7ci@hotmail.com
Ms. Birgitta Gustafsson, Byjordsgatan 3 B, 4 SE-731 33
Koping, Sweden
e-mail: birgitta.gustafsson.221@telia.com
Theodore K. Phelps, W8TP, 8810 Walther Blvd # 3307,
Parkville, MD 21234-5771
e-mail: w8tp@comcast.net
Russell F. Latimer, 7 Parker St., Apt. 606, Dartmouth, NS B2Y 4A5 Canada
Alice S. E. Mitchell, 18, Burnards Court, Berrycombe Rd., Bodwin, Cornwall PL31 2NU England
Olive J. Roeckner, VA6ERA, 204 Fox Haven Drive, Sherwood
Park, AB T8A 6J4
e-mail: roeckner@telus.net
The Society
of Wireless Pioneers, Inc.
Waldo
T Boyd, Box 86, Geyserville, Ca. 95441-0086
copyright ©
1999-2002, The
Society, all rights reserved
Annual
SOWP
International QSO Roundup
DATE/TIME:
Starts: January 19, 2008 at 1700 GMT
Ends January 20, 2008 at 2499 GMT
FREQUENCIES:
Five amateur bands, 3.5 MHz, 7 MHz, 14 MHz, 21 MHz, and 28 MHz are used. A ten (10) kHz portion is allocated at 50 to 60 KHz up from the low end of the bands. Example: 7,050 KHz to 7,060 KHz. Note: Listen for "DX" stations +/- 5 KHz above and/or below these segments.
MESSAGE EXCHANGE:
Message
content shall be as follows:
NR - Your SOWP membership number without suffix
Call Sign - Your call sign
Name
Location - State, Province or Country
EXAMPLE: NR 783 W4HU John VA (no contact or RST reports
required )
Note: NO CONTACT or QSO NUMBERS ARE TO BE
SENT.
SCORING:
Each completed exchange with another SOWP member counts ONE (1) POINT. However, if you contact the same station on three (3) or more other bands, add three (3) points to your overall total point score for each station so contacted.
Example: 50 QSOs, 2 stations on 5 bands, 5 stations on 4
bands, 10 stations on 3 bands
50 + 10 + 20 + 30 = 110
LOGS:
Please make your own log sheets. Include these columns:
Band - Date/Time - SOWP # - Station Worked - Name - QTH ( State, Province or Country
The heading of your log sheet should show your own call
sign and the text of the message you transmitted for each exchange - for example
NR 881 W8TP TED DE. Your completed log sheets should be forwarded to:
Send logs to: B. J. Russell, N6SL
7887 SW 80th Pl Road
Ocala, FL 34476-4511
or email: N6SL2007@ yahoo.com
AWARDS:
Results will be posted on the web approximately 30 days after roundup ends..
73s and good luck
YOUR S.O.W.P. ROUNDUP
COMMITTEE:
Ben Russell, 1853-V, N6SL
Ted Phelps, 0881-P, W8TP
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Waldo
T Boyd, 12 Chapala Drive, Santa Rosa CA 95403
k6dzy@sonic.net
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Society, all rights reserved
www.radiocom.net also hosts the following web
pages:
www.radiocom.net/vx6 -
Operation Deep Freeze. U.S. Navy in the Antarctic...
www.radiocom.net/Fessenden
- The story of an amazing radio pioneer... The world's first radio
broadcast...
www.radiocom.net/stonehorse -
USCG Lightship... also www.radiocom.net/TUK Nantucket
Lightship
www.radiocom.net/NMF - Saving
Com-Sta Boston NMF heritage...
SOWP
Membership Application
I hereby apply for professional LIFE MEMBERSHIP in the
Society of Wireless Pioneers, Inc., certifying on my honor that I have been
assigned (gainfully employed) as a professional wireless/radio operator at a
bona fide ship, aircraft or shore station (govt., military, commercial, or
private) handling messages and traffic on radio-telegraph circuits using one of
the recognized international codes of the world.
If I have not had
professional operating experience, then I do hereby apply for LIFE MEMBERSHIP as
a TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE, and so mark that category in the classification listing
that follows; landline ops welcome.
I understand and agree to these conditions of membership, (a) That I will keep the Society informed of any changes in (1) my post office and/or E-mail address; (2) Telephone number; (3) Amateur call sign and status; (4) Marital status. (b) I agree to the inclusion and publication of personal information or letters in Society publications unless I specifically advise the Secretary to the contrary.
I am sending by post office $15.00 USA funds for one year's dues, plus $5.00 one-time new-member fee (Total: $20.00), the current established rate. Dues are payable by January of the following year to maintain Active Status; I understand that if dues become delinquent no further publications will be mailed until the Secretary is notified of my intention, although my LIFE MEMBERSHIP continues.
Members are classified as ACTIVE or INACTIVE. Active members are those who pay their annual dues. Inactive members are retained in the Society's roster but receive no publications until dues for the current year are paid. Past publications may be purchased at cost if available.
The date and your signature on your check (cheque) or money
order will be considered acceptance of the above described commitment. While we
do not recommend that you send cash through the mail, if you chose to pay your
dues in this way you may enclose a signed note stating that you accept the
conditions and undertake the membership freely and willingly. If you do not wish
to include personal information such as requested below in an E-mail
communication, please request a formal application blank be sent by postal
airmail, and read this communication for information only, as representative of
the application blank that you will receive.
* Cut and Paste from below, or DOWNLOAD
APPLICATION then E-Mail to: k6dzy@sonic.net
or
Snail mail to; Waldo
T Boyd, 12 Chapala Drive, Santa Rosa CA 95403
CLASSIFICATION: (Check the line that corresponds with your experience).
Senior Spark-Gap Pioneer (Service prior to 1915) ___
Spark-Gap Pioneer (Service 1915-1926 inclusive) ___
Pioneer (Service 1926-1939 inclusive) ___
Veteran (Service 1940-1949 inclusive) ___
Regular Pro Member "M" (Service 1950 to date) ___
Technical Associate (Amateur, Teacher, Historian, Etc.) ___
Family Name Given Name Initial ________________ ___ ________________
Address City/Town _________________________________________________
State, Province or? Country __________________________________________
Postal Suffix (Zip Code) _______
Telephone E-Mail address _______________________________
Web address Fax ______________________________________
Spouse name _________________________________________
List your first Professional Assignment Sine ______________________________
Date began ended ___________________________________________________
(Send other professional data by Post, e-mail .rtf, FAX by arrangement, or other Internet service)
AMATEUR ACTIVITIES:
Present Callsign: First Callsign:
Your "handle" or "nickname":
Voice CW sine:
NOTE: The above data may be filled out and sent as-is. You may also request the application form by direct e-mail by sending a message to k6dzy@sonic.net . If you are skilled in use of a text-editor and wish to do so, filling the blanks can be quite easily done, and the resulting block of text can be sent as the message, underlining not necessary.
ADDITIONAL HISTORICAL DATA:
We ask that you send any historical information regarding your station experience, of a more bulky nature, via regular or airmail post. A photo by e-mail or post will be appreciated. If you were involved in receipt or sending of a MAYDAY or SOS or CQD during your professional service, we will appreciate the details and any supporting documents that you may have. Please send electrostatic copies only — do NOT trust vital personal documents to the mail. Receipt of your Application for Membership by E-mail or web form will be acknowledged immediately, but will not be acted upon until dues and fee are in hand. Allow about 3 weeks for membership card, certificate(s) and formal letter of welcome.)
k6dzy@sonic.net Secretary...
The Society of Wireless Pioneers, Inc.
Waldo
T Boyd, 12 Chapala Drive, Santa Rosa CA 95403
k6dzy@sonic.net
copyright ©
1999-2002, The Society, all
rights reserved