SUNSHINE CORNER – JUNE, 2021 Happy Birthday wishes to Jan, KE4TMW; Jim, KM4SXM; Bob, W4PHX; Derrick, KV4SH; Wayne, AG4ZZ; Gene, N4HFW and Bob, K4HJF. Happy Father’s Day to all our club members, hope you get to enjoy the day! Last month I posted congratulations to Wayne on his daughter’s college graduation. Turns out both daughter’s had graduations in the same weekend. So double congrats to the Phillip’s family! Thank you again to everyone that contributed to the Steve, N4OGR Memorial Scholarship. The committee led by Sandy, KM4JUS was able to award two scholarships this year! OUTSTANDING! The OVH Tailgate Event is Saturday, June 12th from 8 AM to 2 PM. To all the members who have volunteered to help, thank you very much! We will have a club table and we are once again asking for donations of baked goods…. Read more »
Happy Birthday wishes to John, KM4VCJ; David, KG4GIY; Bill, WA4FIC; Jack, N4YIC; Carl, KK4ZYX; Craig, WA3UFY; Roberto, KM4RIE; Dick, KM4UXE; Susan, K3SSP; Terry, KC4DV; Bruce, KN4GDX; Don, WA2SWX; Robert, KJ4EOR, and John, KG4NXT Happy Mother’s Day to all our moms – club members and family members. Our VE Session on May 8th went well; we have a new General and 5 new Techs. Congratulations to everyone. Thank you to the VEs who attended to get the tests graded. Pictures are on our website – www.w4ovh.net Condolences to Jay, NQ4T, whose grandfather passed away last week. Congratulations to Wayne, N7QLK on his daughter’s college graduation! Congratulation to Duane, KK4BZ. He will be taking care of Father of the Bride duties in June. Best wishes to the bride & groom. Congratulations to Jack, KN4HHQ for receiving his WAS Certificate – Worked all… Read more »
Happy Spring or Winter (depending on the day) Birthday wishes to Harry, KC9TXL; Harry, KN4IJY; Brian, KK4CBS; Gene, KN4JMB; Gil, KM4OZH; Paul, N4PD; Joe, KI4OHR; Steve, KJ4YHA; Chris, KU4FT; Lillian, KK4MXY; David, KI4AZX; Paul, W4ZB and David, KD4DEE. KG4NXT and I had a great time during the Virginia QSO party! Saturday morning we hit the road early and drove up to Skyline Drive, where we made our first contact. The day was beautiful and the park was in great shape! We left thru the gate in Front Royal and headed to Winchester, then pointed the car towards Manassas. On Sunday afternoon, we went out again to Loudoun County and hit Manassas & Manassas Park. Overall, a great weekend. We operated for the first time as Multiple Operators Mobile, a lot less logging for us and we had a personal best… Read more »
Happy Birthday wishes to Fred, N3KVV; Wayne, N4HCR; Scott, KM4FTD; Gary, K4MRL; Jeff, N1SN; Michael, KO4BCN; Matt and David KO4HIR. Welcome home to Chick, KC1PIA. He has been in Florida with family for the last 2 months and is back in Manassas. I think he is ready for some ham radio! Thank you to everyone that has donated to Steve’s N4OGR memorial scholarship. Enough donations have come in that the club will be choosing a winner in 2021 and 2022. Awesome!!! Thank you to Gordon, NQ4K for his presentation at the February meeting. Gordon filled us in on the Virginia QSO Party that is March 20th & 21st. I noticed during the presentation that there is a youth award so I asked Gordon if the youth needed to have a license. Gordon said he would check it out and get… Read more »
Happy birthday to our club members celebrating another year this month – Jack, KN4HHQ; Steve, KB4OF; Ken, WB4ZOH; Philip, KI4WCC; Jeff, KM4FTK; George, K4GVT; Sandy, KM4JUS; Rosalie, KN4ZLY; Dwight, N4GSD; Mary, KK4GOW; Jeff, K9VEG; Richard, KJ4ZIH and Luther, WA3FMO. Hope everyone found a way to celebrate his or her special day! Very happy to announce we have a new member of the Heartney clan, Ben was born on June 19th to Elizabeth, KG4TVM & Nick, KG7SOM. They live near Seattle, so if all goes well we will see them in August. Way back in February, we had our last in person club meeting and it was the elections of officers. My intention was to present a plaque to Byron, AK4XR at the March meeting for his service as club president for 2 years. Also, I had engraved travel mugs for… Read more »
Greetings! Happy birthday to our club members celebrating another year this month – Jan, KE4TMW; Jim, KM4SXM; Steve, N4OGR; Derrick, KV4SH; Wayne, AG4ZZ; Gene, N4HEW; and Bob, K4HJF. Doesn’t quite feel like June without our annual Hamfest or Field Day in Nokesville! Don’t forget the Virginia QSO Party Award Ceremony is this Saturday at 9 AM online., This is always held at our Hamfest normally. Happy Father’s Day to all the dads in the club. Congratulations to our 2020 scholarship winner Benjamin. Thanks to Sandy, KM4JUS for organizing and getting the winner announced! Silent key – Russ Stevens WB4HHN passed away on May 24th. Russ was a long time member of club. Please keep his family in your thoughts and prayers. RIP Russ. Next Tuesday, June 16th, is our monthly club meeting also online. Please join in if you can…. Read more »
Greetings! I am sorry I missed putting together a March sunshine corner. Due to the extremely low mortgage rates in February & March, I was completely snowed under at work. I have been working from home for the last few weeks, as I am sure some of you are as well. Thanks to Paul, W4ZB for filling in for me. On that note, belated birthday wishes to the following club members: Fred, N3KVV; Scott, KM4FTD; Gary, K4MRL and Jeff, N1SN. Hope you all were able to celebrate! Happy birthday to our club members celebrating another year in April: Harry, KC4TXL; Harry, KN4IJY; Brian, KK4CBS; Gil, KM4OZH; Paul, N4PD; Joe, KI4OHR; Lillian, KK4MXY; David, KI4AZX; Paul, W4ZB, and David, KD4DEE. Also celebrating her 87th birthday this month is Annemarie, George, K4GVT’s, mother in law. We know her as OMA, a very… Read more »
Happy birthday to those club members celebrating another year in February: Dick, WN7S; Harvey, WB6TTF; Jeff, WB6UIE; Art, W1CRO; Mike, KN4NDI. Best wishes to Dana, Jim’s, KM4SXM’s YL , as she continues to recover from a bad fall. The OVH had a table at Frostfest in Richmond this past Saturday. We handed out lots of flyers and talked up our Hamfest in June. Good to see club members attend the event as well. Virginia QSO Party is coming up in March, more info at the February meeting! Field Day 2020 in in the planning stages and we have just had the first planning meeting. Any help, questions, etc. contact Byron AK4XR. The first meeting was held at Sam & Joe’s on Center Street in Manassas, photo included! Our own hamfest planning meetings are under way, please talk with Don, WA2SWX… Read more »
