QCWA Awards + Cutchalls in Alaska

QCWA Awards were presented; Carol & Leila Cutchall recalled their QCWA-sponsored trip to Alaska in August 2005.

VP Mike Huhn, K3TEZ, holding forth Warren Schor, KD3GA, receives his 55 year award from Pres. Tim Donovan Nelson Seese, W4BHD, with his 55 year & Century Club awards Carol Cutchall, WA4GFW, recalls Leila's and his adventures in Alaska, 2005 Fairbanks sun seen through smoke from wild fires many miles away Chena River Cruise: a paddle boat to the Chena Indian Village food and shelter demo at the Chena Indian Village Dixie, leather dress maker; Smithsonian Museum has one on display along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, 150 miles from the Arctic Circle Gold Dredge #8 Panning for Gold McKinley Explorer, a glass-domed train to Denali National Park Ptarmigans, the Alaskan state bird Holland America's MS Veendam at anchor, Seward AL Inside Passage with glaciers as seen from the Veendam Salmon migrating Carol operating the Icom 7800 transceiver Leila operating the Icom 7800 QCWA Directors & banner; Alan Pickering, WJ9N, center