Her father and adoptive mother, Jeanne Hanrahan Fox; sister, Kathleen Morris; brother, Brad Morris, KA3YAN, and other relatives survive. Services were June 6 in St Michaels, Maryland. (For more information on Megan and Jay Fox, point your browser to http://www.ajfox.com/.)
Dorothea M. "Dee" Seaver, W4QBY, of Ft Lauderdale, Florida, died May 10, 1996. She was 99 years old. A native of Brooklyn, New York, she became interested in ham radio in 1945 when her son, William, then a ham, went off to college, and she wanted to stay in touch with him. She was active in several nets, earned DXCC, and was a member of QCWA.
In Brief . . .
- The 22nd annual Eastern VHF/UHF Conference is set for August 23-25 at the Quality Inn and Conference Center, 51 Hartford Tpke (Rte 83), Vernon, CT. The event commences with a hospitality suite Friday, August 23, at 4 PM. Registration, formal conference activities and the banquet start Saturday, August 24, at 8 AM. A swapfest is Sunday, August 25. Registration by mail is $20; at the door, $25 (banquet tickets are additional). For registration information, contact Rae Bristol, K1LXD, 328 Mark Dr, Coventry, CT 06238, tel 860-742-8650. For swapfest information, contact Mark Casey, N1LZC, 303 Main St, Hampden, MA 01036, tel 413-566-2445. The conference still seeks speakers. Those interested should contact Conference Chairman Stan Hilinski, KA1ZE, 17 Pilgrim Dr, Tolland, CT 06084, tel 860-649-3258 (W) or 860-872-6197 (H).
- FCC Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Deputy Chief Ralph A. Haller, N4RH, has announced he's retiring. Haller, 48, has spent 25 years with the FCC, including eight years as head of the Private Radio Bureau. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.
- DXCC approval has been given for 5A1A operations from Libya that were conducted by Ukrainian and Libyan nationals.
- The ARRL DXCC Desk reports the number of unprocessed applications at the end of May 1996 was 139 (13,424 QSLs). The desk got 431 applications (32,402 QSLs) for endorsements and new awards during May. Applications being sent out at month's end were received about a week earlier. A few applications received before that were awaiting conversion from paper records or were being audited.
- It's official! ARRL Web, the ARRL HQ World Wide Web site has gone over the one million "hit" mark for 1996. (A "hit" is a request for a file from the server by a viewer.) The site currently gets as many as 10,000 hits daily on weekdays and has been seeing more than 13,000 a day since the 2-meter/70-cm band threat issue arose!--Jon Bloom, KE3Z
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