Announcing the W9DYV Radio Society
Ham Radio News 0 Comments 02/11/2020
honoring SSB pioneer Wes Schum W9DYV
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Posted By: Robert Nickels (ranickels)
Nick Tusa, K5EF, longtime friend of Wes Schum and organizer of the W9DYV-Central Electronics Technical Symposium for a number of years, has announced that the W9DYV callsign will again be active, as the club callsign of the W9DYV Radio Societ NFP.
Congratulations to Nick and friends for memorializing Wes Schum's contributions to amateur radio in this way!
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