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Gregory Quenell, '85, WA2BWO in a letter to the HWC dated Dec. 15, 1989:

embership was very low during my era (1981-1985). We ran weekly or bi- weekly code sessions for a couple of years and licensed KA1IBC, KA1IBD and KA1IBE. One of these was Marty Inchosa (now KC1SY). Most other unlicensed members drifted away when they realized what was involved. Other members were Bob Brooks, Bill Vetterling, and Bob Weinstock.

"The primary station was some Drake equipment that belonged to Bob Weinstock. Bob is essentially deaf, and copies CW (at 60+WPM) by placing a thumb on the speaker and listening through his hand. Bill Vetterling kept the Collins running, barely. Bill also relayed hundreds of messages from a merchant marine training ship out of Buzzards Bay, via N1BBT, the ship's radioman. Bill and Bob checked into EMRI almost daily for a couple of years, and Bob was sometimes NCS for EMRI.

"Marty wrote a program for the Atari 800 to display color SSTV pictures, and we drifted around recording some pictures. I had a long-running weekly sked with my dad, K2ORG, on 40M CW. Nobody had any fun. . ."