President Emeritus   Conferred 1964 First President 1947 - 1964 Editor 1960 John Di Blasi Plandome Manor LI, NY Little Neck, LI, NY Founder Charter Member #1 Member: ARRL & IEEE Born: November 8, 1898

December 5, 1947

From the 1953 QCWA Yearbook
2FX - 1921 200 Meter, 6 wire cage and Shack for the 'Rock Crusher' Spark Gap Xmtr	W2LKC	The Old Man Himself W2 Little Kilo Cycles - 1939	W2LKC - 1939
W2LKC - 1939	W2LKC	Full View of 3 Element 10 Meter rotary beam at W2LKC, now W2FX & W2QNR 33 ft high, QTH Little Neck, NY	First 3 El Beam at W2LKC
Adjusting 3 El Beam Manually Rotated W2LKC - 1939	Angle iron frame box which is to hold the beam The 2 slip rings are 4" diam and are mounted on bakelite disks.	Rotar Assembly prop pitch motor and selsyn indicator motor	Son Paul at the Mike - 1939
1939	ECO Preselector - HQ120 Rcvr 2 1/2 Wave Super Regen Rcvr 1942	Main XMtr 1942 6L6 into PP TZ-40 running 250 - 900 watts MOD Pr 836 PP Class B	1946 W2FX FCC License
Beam Crew	1947 - Beam Pruners W2KYX Tony Kinney, Vic DeGhet W2BCB Otto Tickacheck, W2FX, John DiBlasi	1947 - W2LKC Little Neck, NY 10 & 20 Meters. Steering wheel used to manually turn the beam	At work, 91 7th Ave NYC Cooper and DiBlasi, Electronic Representatives circa 1949
Photocopy of original QSL drawing by Otto Eppes Courtesy of Harrison Radio Corporation, New York City Presented to W2FX by Bill Harrison, Pres Harrison Radio		1950 W2FIT Leon Hansen and W2FX John DiBlasi, FX Re-elected President QCWA Photo by K2AY 6/9/50	W2FIT Leon Hansen, W2FX John DiBlasi, Geo Bailey ARRL, Dave Talley Kurt Schoenfeld and Milt Thompson Photo by Bob, W2DTE
Pappas Restaurant Doc Walsh, W2BW John DiBlasi, W2FX Ralph Barber, W2ZM Speaker, Unknown photo by Bob Hertzberg	Pappas Restaurant Doc Walsh, W2BW Ralph Barber, W2ZM John DiBlasi, W2FX	ARES Van Belle Terre, Suffolk County ARC Long Island, NY, Unknown John DiBlasi, W2FX Dick Lawrence, W2JWM	Apr 1967
QTH - Plandome, L.I., NY	1967 - 1981	W2FX at the Mike	John's last station

The above pictures and captions have been supplied by John Di Blasi Jr. W2QNR(sk), son of W2FX


John's QCWA office record, there are not applications for the early members

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K4HT/W2DX - SK in 1994






Images courtesy of the NL7XM Collection


This July 1921 advertisement shows QCWA's 1st President and Founder, John
DiBlasi as Secretary of the Continental Radio and Electric Corp of New York City.
Advertisment provided by Pete the Greek, NL7XM


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