Fall ARRL Section Manager Election Results

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Fall ARRL Section Manager Election Results

The only contested seat for Section Manager (SM) in the fall election cycle was in Kansas, where incumbent Ron Cowan, KB0DTI, of La Cygne, came out on top in the two-person race. Cowan outpolled challenger Lloyd Colston, of Arkansas City, 260 to 225. Ballots were counted on 23rd November 2021 at ARRL Headquarters. Cowan has served as Kansas Section Manager since 2003. His new 2-year term will begin on 1st January 2022.

In Alabama, Roger Parsons, KK4UDU, of Mulga, will become the new Section Manager on January 1. Parsons was the only nominee for the position. He has been an Assistant Section Manager and a District Emergency Coordinator. Incumbent SM JVann Martin, W4JVM, who has served as the Alabama Section Manager since 2016, decided not to run for a new term.

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Radio Ham has over 500 Wireless Sets

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Bernard Pottin (F6CND) has been collecting for twenty years old radio sets. In the garage of his house in Bouquigny, in the Marne, he has accumulated more than 500.

Bernard Pottin spends hours in his garage in Bouquigny, west of Epernay in the Marne, repairing his radio sets. The oldest can only pick up long wave.

Bernard has been passionate about radio since childhood. "At my parents' house, there were TSF [wireless telegraphy] stations where you could listen to amateur radio," he says. This is where the passion was born. I became a radio amateur in 1972. Then I developed this collection about twenty years ago."

Bernard sometimes manages to receive BBC programs in the United Kingdom, "but very weakly". Destroyed by television and replaced by transistors, the wireless counts its last hours of reception on the long waves.

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RSGB Co-opts Director

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The RSGB Board is pleased to announce that Richard Horton, G4AOJ has been co-opted as a Board Director until the 2022 AGM.

He has served as the RSGB Honorary Treasurer since 2011 and the RSGB Board is advertising for Richard’s successor.

Applications from financially-qualified candidates are invited and should be emailed in the first instance to board.chair@rsgb.org.uk.