From the Newsletter history archives...
About your club officers:
Spotlight on...Rick, N4WYK, Vice-President
Vintage Equipment
Born January 11, 1957 in Florence, SC, Rick. at age 14, lost his father in a freak accident and his high school years found him working for J.P Stevens to help support his family. Graduating from Hannah Pamplico High School (SC) in 1975, he attended the Free Will Baptist College in Nashville. Returning to Florence after a year, Rick married his childhood sweetheart, the former Miss Alice Hucks, in 1977 - a union that ended in 1995...but not before two children (Richard, now 23 and Michael, now 17) were added to the family. After receiving his Bachelor's Degree and ETTA Teaching Diploma from the Nashville college in 1981, he took a position in 1983 with the Department of Social Services in that city. During his 3-year tenure with the DSS, Rick worked in Food Stamps, AFDC and the Medicaid Unit and later, in the Tennessee State Fraud Unit. Due to family illnesses, he and his wife sought a closer
location and moved to Matthews, NC, taking a position with the First Union Bank as a programmer. A short employment with DSS in Mecklenburg convinced him that he needed to "expand his horizons". Securing a position with Nationwide Insurance Company as an outside claims adjuster, he was moved to Hickory, NC in 1986. Career oppprtunities found him as a "general adjuster" and later in the Catastropic Management Unit. Still technically an employee of Nationwide, he is now on long-term disability due to medical reasons so Rick is enjoying new-found freedoms for his ham radio activities! (Rick had somehow let his ham ticket (KA4EPC) expire but finding a ham class at CCC&TI led by Jim, N4EUX, netted him a new license and call (N4WYK) in 1988).
(Rick, an Amateur Extra Class licensee, is active on VHF (147.33) and various HF frequencies. In adition to being an elected club officer as VP, he is also the contributing editor of the "Satellite & APRS" column of the LARC Newsletters. He is an ardent member/supporter of ARES and SKYWARN, and pursues antenna building & working satellites.. DX'ing and ragchewing are among his favorites! Rick is a past-president of the Centralina ARC and was a member of Catawba County RACES for several years -Ed)
From the February '86 newsletter (entitled "Lenoir Amateur Radio Newsletter" -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 the Newsletter Editor was pleaing for help in getting news/gossip, etc., to put in the newsletter. Needed were a few members to act as "reporters" to funnel items of interest to help keep the newsletter rolling and to keep the information fresh and interesting. (Not much has changed in the years between 1986 and 2004 in this respect. The editor is still pleaing for the same thing. Hi! -Ed)
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(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-100 Receiver
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Debuting in 1956, the SX-100 became the "darling" of the mid-price range of the fifties, owing to its' price (295.00) and to its' performance and esthetic eye appeal. Sporting the "split" tuning dials popular in those days, the SX-100 gave excellent performance on AM-CW-SSB reception in 1 broadcast and 4 shortwave bands which included the hambands. A "Tee-Notch" filter (a forerunner of the present-day IF-Shift tuning) for rejection of unwanted heterodynes was a main selling feature. When found on hamfest swap tables, expect to pay $200 and up for one in decent condition!
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