Message de F6FQX à ARRL

-----Original Message-----
  From:   jean-pierre bourdier [mailto:f6fqx@free.fr]
Sent:   Thursday, October 30, 2003 5:17 AM
To:     Kleinman, Joel,  N1BKE
Subject:        Saint Amateur was a holy man living in Burgundy
Jean-Pierre Bourdier, F6FQX
2, villa Adrienne
78960-Voisins-le-Bretonneux (France)
ARRL member : n° 0010143551
e-mail : f6fqx@free.fr
home-page : http://f6fqx.chez.tiscali.fr/
to QST Up Front

Paris (France), October 30, 2003

Dear colleagues,

My call sign is F6FQX and I have been an ARRL member for years.




Visiting recently Burgundy, the French province where my family is from, I discovered, not very far from Chablis, the small village of Chevroches (“in English, “Goat-rocks”).

Its tiny church, located in “rue de l’enfer” (in English, “Hell Street”), built in the year 843, is devoted, like all roman catholic churches, to a holy man

But in that special village the church holy man is named Saint Amateur.





Who knows that our hobby could lead to beatitude ?


One more stone to the debate on "should we continue to be designated as amateurs ?"

You will find hereattached the pictures I took there (church, street-tag, explaining label on the church both in French and English, the church window representing Saint-Amateur). Maybe one of them could interest QST Up Front ?

We can imagine that Saint Amateur was a very good DX-(holy)man, specializing in the sky-wave utilization…

 
 

But, even in that very old times, neighbourhood problems did exist for hams.

Maybe the street of this OM was therefore designated “hell street” ?

With my best 73.

Jean-Pierre Bourdier, F6FQX

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Message de ARRL en réponse

30/10/2003 14:59

From
Kleinman, Joel,  N1BKE [n1bke@arrl.org]
To
Bourdier, Jean-Pierre [f6fqx@free.fr]

RE: Saint Amateur was a holy man living in Burgundy

Jean-Pierre,

Thank you very much for the photos and story about Chevroches and St Amateur. I will try to find a place for it in an upcoming "Up Front in QST" column.

Thank you, too, for your long-time support of the ARRL via your membership.

73, Joel
  Joel P. Kleinman, N1BKE
  Managing Editor, QST
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