{"id":4697,"date":"2010-03-14T21:45:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T03:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2010-03-14T21:51:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T03:51:33","slug":"ham-looking-for-william-bill-meiners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=4697","title":{"rendered":"Ham Looking for William (Bill) Meiners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Lee,<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4701\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"nobody\" src=\"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/nobody.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"188\" \/>I am trying to locate a ham by the name of William (Bill) Meiners. Bill was located in San Antonio and may well be a SK. His wife was named Loretta, and Bill had a number of children, any one of which may be a HAM. Bill was my Elmer down in the Rio Grande Valley back in the 1950s. About the time he and his family moved to SA, I went into the service, and lost contact with them.<\/p>\n<p>I have looked at the ARRL web site and found on active license for Bill, thus the probability of him being a SK.<\/p>\n<p>Bill was chief engineer for KRIO in McAllen and went to SA as a station engineer for one of the radio stations. Any information on Bill or any of his family would be much appreciated<\/p>\n<p>73<\/p>\n<p>Jack T. Ward Jr. N5TLW<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:sjward@swbell.net\">sjward@swbell.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Response:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Jack&#8230; the only one I can find close to that is WB5LMG\u00a0\u00a0Kenneth W. Meiners. I suspect the address listed is a typo and ought to be &#8220;Borgfield Rd&#8221; instead of &#8220;Burgfield Rd&#8221;.\u00a0 Look up this call sign on QRZ.com and send snail mail to that address.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But just in case&#8230; I&#8217;m posting this also to the SA Hams Blog for other hams to help us find this ham for you if possible to do so.<\/p>\n<p>73 de Lee N5NTG<br \/>\nSA Hams Moderator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Lee, I am trying to locate a ham by the name of William (Bill) Meiners. Bill was located in San Antonio and may well be a SK. His wife was named Loretta, and Bill had a number of children, any one of which may be a HAM. Bill was my Elmer down in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4703,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions\/4703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}