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   ARLX003 Former ARRL Eastern Pennsylvania SM, Traffic Handler Joe   
   Ames, W3JY (SK)   
      
   ZCZC AX03   
   QST de W1AW    
   Special Bulletin 3  ARLX003   
   From ARRL Headquarters    
   Newington CT  March 10, 2022   
   To all radio amateurs   
      
   SB SPCL ARL ARLX003   
   ARLX003 Former ARRL Eastern Pennsylvania SM, Traffic Handler Joe   
   Ames, W3JY (SK)   
      
   Former ARRL Eastern Pennsylvania Section Manager Joseph A. "Joe"   
   Ames, W3JY, of Paoli, Pennsylvania, died on March 5. An ARRL Life   
   Member, he was 57. Ames served as EPA SM from 2014 until 2016. He   
   was one of the founders of Radio Relay International, an independent   
   traffic-handling organization.   
      
   A ham since 1977, Ames devoted many years to amateur radio public   
   service organizations including Delaware County and Chester County   
   ARES/RACES, and as an emergency communications instructor and   
   Volunteer Examiner. He served as Section Traffic Manager in the   
   1980s, and was once president of the Carbon County Amateur Radio   
   Club. He previously served the ARRL Field Organization with   
   appointments as Assistant Section Manager in Eastern Pennsylvania,   
   Official Emergency Station, and Official Relay Station. In 2015, he   
   was elected as the Eastern Area Staff Chair of the ARRL National   
   Traffic System, and net manager of the Eastern Pennsylvania   
   Emergency Phone & Traffic Net.   
      
   Ames was a member of the Quarter Century Wireless Association   
   (QCWA), Chapter 166. His QCWA profile includes, "Joe was introduced   
   to radio by his father, Joe Sr., who patiently and lovingly guided   
   and supported him from childhood short-wave listening during the   
   long winters of the early 1970s through the CB heyday and to his   
   first ham radio station."   
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