WPE3BQL

To Bro. Matt & Alan---WPE3BQL is not a "real" ham call sign and never had any FCC "approval."  It was merely a "Registered Radio Monitoring" call sign issued some 50 years ago by the long-defunct "Popular Electronics" magazine.  I suppose it was more of a marketing thing for PE because now a person who wasn't primarily a ham could now have his/her radio monitoring activities supposedly "registered."
For various reasons, I never became a ham.  Back in those days I was more interested in listening to short-wave radio broadcasters on my gigantic Philco radio.
After 50 years, my interests in radio monitoring have changed, but WPE3BQL is still my own personal "call sign".....and I'm sticking with it!!!

Well, God did use the USAF to move me out to Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, AZ.
It was while I was in Tucson that I visited an off-base IFB church back in April, 1966, where I first heard the Gospel of Christ and received Him as my Savior!!
Then in 1967 I was reassigned to Ramstein AB in (West) Germany.  There I found a small IFB mission for US service personnel that became my church home till my release from the USAF in April, 1969.  I probably learned more about the Bible there than I might have otherwise learned in that 2 year period.

Well, God did use the USAF to move me out to Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, AZ.
It was while I was in Tucson that I visited an off-base IFB church back in April, 1966, where I first heard the Gospel of Christ and received Him as my Savior!!
Then in 1967 I was reassigned to Ramstein AB in (West) Germany.  There I found a small IFB mission for US service personnel that became my church home till my release from the USAF in April, 1969.  I probably learned more about the Bible there than I might have otherwise learned in that 2 year period.

WPE3BQL,
I have a good missionary friend here on Taiwan who is a registered ham radio operator that is why I thought of your call signs being connected with ham radio in some aspect.
I was in the Air Force from 1971-1975. I started out in Avionics, (Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, CO), but, due to personal problems I was reassigned and then went into POL (Petroleum, Oils, and Lubricants). See attached link. http://www.acc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123313406 
My main job was the fueling up of aircraft. Except for a TDY (Temproary Duty) in the fuel storage tank at Clark AFB in the Philipppines, I spent all of my time in service fueling up aircraft on the flightline. I loved my job and the Lord used it for His glory. While overseas in SEA (SouthEast Asia) during the Vietnam War I was able to fuel up almost all of the different classes of combat aircraft in the Air  Force inventory and while on Taiwan the Lord called me back here as a missionary. During the time stateside I was at two different SAC (Stratigic Air Command) bases (B-52 bombers and KC-135's). I wound up as a 5-level (63150 classification). I left the servcice as an E-4 (at the time Sgt.)
WPE3BQL,
How about you? Anything interesting the brethren might be interested in?
 
 

To Bro. Matt & Alan---WPE3BQL is not a "real" ham call sign and never had any FCC "approval."  It was merely a "Registered Radio Monitoring" call sign issued some 50 years ago by the long-defunct "Popular Electronics" magazine.  I suppose it was more of a marketing thing for PE because now a person who wasn't primarily a ham could now have his/her radio monitoring activities supposedly "registered."
For various reasons, I never became a ham.  Back in those days I was more interested in listening to short-wave radio broadcasters on my gigantic Philco radio.
After 50 years, my interests in radio monitoring have changed, but WPE3BQL is still my own personal "call sign".....and I'm sticking with it!!!