From the Newsletter history archives... About your club officers:
Spotlight on...Scott, KC4SWL, Secretary-Treasurer Vintage Equipment Scott was born February 15, 1947 in Wilkes County and was the tenth of eleven children. Even though he resided in Wilkes County (Boomer, NC), the school bus for King's Creek turned around near his home...so the kids near his Boomer home just got on that bus and thus, they attended Caldwell County schools insead of Wilkes County schools. All of Scott's siblings are still living and they enjoy getting together often.
Scott served three years in the U.S. Army after graduating from King's Creek High School in 1965. Spending one year in DaNang, Republic of Viet Nam, he left there in 1968. While home on leave, he met Myrtle, his XYL, and later that year they married. A subsequent move found them at Ft. Bragg for the next eight months while Scott completed his tour of active duty with the Army. After his discharge, Scott worked several jobs until he became associated with Broyhill
From the August '86 newsletter (entitled "Lenoir Amateur Radio Club" -after it was adopted as the official newsletter of the LARC but before it was renamed as the "News and Views"), it was noted that, although RTTY had been around for a number of years, packet and AMTOR were emerging digital modes within the ham radio ranks. Other more exotic modes, or derivatives or those already mentioned, were still on the horizon.
2004

1951 1959 1962 1967 2000 (Each month, a brief spotlight will appear here on equipment you may have seen at hamfest swap tables. This month it is the Hallicrafters SX-101A ).
The popular Hallicrafters SX-101A was truly a remarkable receiver...being a step up from the also popular SX-100 receiver. The SX-101A was usually paired with its companion transmitter, the Hallicrafters HT-32B. Using this combination, the avid DX'er could hold his own on the already-crowded DX bands! The receiver itself was very sturdilly built and the tonnage proved it! The VFO was extremely stable and with its BFO, it could easily zero-beat any frequency the HT-32B was sitting on...in spite of its sort-of "blocky" slide rule dial. If found on today's swap tables, you can expect to pay in excess of $250+ dollars for a nice, clean copy. Furniture Industries, where he has spent the last 30 + years. Currently, he works in the Engineering Department and mostly does industrial hygiene and environmental tasks. Scott and Myrtle live in the Gamewell area (where they raised 2 children-a daughter and a son). While they, for the most part, are now "empty nesters", their lives are about to get complicated once again when their daughter and husband bring home a brand-new grandbaby (due in August)! Being no stranger to "grandfatherdom", his son has a 12-year old daughter who resides in Savannah, Ga. Scott & Myrtle attend Fleming Chapel Baptist Church and Scott is active in a couple of gospel groups. Besides amateur radio, Scott states he enjoys metal-detecting and that he spends a lot of time "piddling" and thinking of piddling.
(Scott, a General Class licensee, is active on several 2-meter repeaters in the area. He was nominated and elected as Lenoir ARC's newest Secretary-Treasurer with his tenure beginning Jan 1, 2005. He supports the ARRL, ARES, and other activities of the club. -Ed

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