VE3BYX - March 3, 2000

VE3BYX - Carl U. Everson Carl U. Everson
Ottawa ON, Canada

QCWA # 8764
Chapter 70

Carl grew up on a farm in near Orangeville, Ontario.

Education / Employment History

1955-1963 - Owned a radio-television service business at Grand Valley, Ont.

1958-1963 - Communications Officer (Volunteer) Dufferin County Civil Defence.

Trustee for the Civil Defence amateur radio station VE3ZDC.

1963-1967 - Department of National Defence as a Radio Operator.

1967-1993 - Communications Security Establishment (Field Engineering)

1972 - Completed B Sc in Physics from Carleton University

1993 - Retirement

Amateur Radio History

1948 - First licensed as VE3BYX

1949-1952 - Member of the Northern Squadron of Armed Forces Radio System

1949-1952 - Member of Grand River Radio Club (Belwood-Fergus area)

1961 - Advanced Certificate of Proficiency

Member of Ottawa Amateur Radio Club and Rideau Amateur Radio Club and was active on 6 and 2M.

One of the twenty-one Charter Members of Chapter 70. Served as Secretary-Treasurer 1981-84 and President 1984-1986 and 1989. Chapter 70 Historian 1991-2000. Nominated for the QCWA Meritorious Award in 2000. The certificate was accepted posthumously on his behalf by his widow Barbara.

Developed the database and handled registrations with wife Barbara for the 1996 QCWA Convention, which helped our first Chapter 70 QCWA convention run smoothly

He passed away March 3, 2000 at age 73 years.