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from a philanthropic organization for your "Adopt a Country" venture. The single most important aspect of getting support is to be organized. @ripment manufacturers get dozens of *Please give me a free radio" letters each week. Serious consideration can only be given to initiatives like the ZAIA IARU Albania Project, which included a comprehensive plan of aclion to be canied out by parties known to be responsible. Your project need not be on as grand a scale as ZAIA, but do your homework and lay out a plan, and you'll start to open doors. Afond look back d not so long ago homebren'ing I Remember... By:CreraldA. Morris, WA6NAR 46Montell St., Oaklan4 CA945114924 I remember when I first decidd to build that 40 and 80 meter crystal confrolled CW transmitter. It woul( of course, be tube t,,pe and ptrt togettrcr with whatever was at hand. Once this was decided a trip to the "junk box" was in order. Digglng ir1 I found a power trandormer, probably out of an old Black and White TV, that looked about right for a rig in the 100 watt mnge. Further diggng tumed up a filter chd
Silver BeIIes By: Carol King K5CPZ, hesident Chapter 63, P. O. Box 73, Oklahoma City, OK 73101 Before discussing our featured YL, I would like to thank those of you who were so kind as to submit comments concerning this column. I value your input and I will do my best to implement your wishes with reference to the material on YLs. The original title of the column caused quite a "hum" of QRM! I was gratified to learn, though, that the column was at least read. Because I did not have rufficient time to work on a title for the column, I did not submit o title. Consequently, I regret that I cannot take credit for the column's original title which created such a variety of comments. I can, however, accept full responsibility for "Silver Belles." I/you would like to suggest another title, we would be delighted to hearfrom you. If you would prefer to dispense with a YL column of this kind for your lournal, please let us know. Omitting this column would neither alfect my salary nor cause hard feelings. Because this is vour Jowal, I am interested in hearing from you. Again, thank ysu for sharing your ideas, and please accept my best wishes to each ofyou. 33s to the ladies and 73s to the guys, de Carol King, KSCPZ. Esther Given, W6BDE, is our featured YL for this issue. When you have read about her accomplishments, her dedication, and her contributions to ham radio and humanity, you will have a great deal of appreciation for this very special YL. According to Esther, her childhood wasn't all that unusual. She was born in 19ll in New Jersey, but her family soon moved to the Denver area where she received her education. Because she had the experiences of an only child, sibling rivalry was never an issue for this YL. In W.W.[, when the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) was organized, Esther volunteered for the challenge of proving that a woman could handle a military assignment. In 1942 she passed the aptitude test which enabled her to serve in the area ofradio personnel. Esther received her basic military training at Ft. Des Moines, Iowa, which was then the only basic training school for WAACS. In November 1942 she and her crew traveled by train from Iowa to Kansas City, Missouri for training in military radio communication. The group of two commanding offtcers and 100 WAACs paraded a mile in the rain from the railroad station to their new assignment as students in the Midland Radio School. The training period lasted for 13 weeks. Esther and her crew received intensive training in international Morse code, U.S. military operating procedures and basic electronics of the day. The WAAC gunea pigs set outstanding records in exceeding the expectations ofthe school.. During W.W.[, military radio communications were sent in Morse code consisting of five letter code groups which had to be decoded to be understood. Military operators acquired a rhythm that let them know when the five letters of a code group had been received. While in training in Kansas City, the trainees were visited by Eleanor Roosevelt, who took a sincere interest in their activities, accomplishments and achievements. According to Esther, everyone loved Eleanor Roosevelt and she received a grade of 1000 percent for the interest she showed the WAACs. Esther was one of the top three women in the class. The Morse code requirement for grcduation from the school was to copy 2l WPM. Esther, however, graduated with the ability to copy five-letter code groups at the qpeed of 25.2 WPM. Upon graduation, she was stationed at the following locations: She was first stationed in Washington, DC, as a radio operator in the anti-aircraft command at Camp Simms. Additional assignments at the nation's capital included Bowling Field and a six month assignment as a radio operator at station WAR at the Pentagon. She then served a s€ven month assignment as a radio operator at the anti-aircraft firing range at Camp Stewart Georgia. It was interesting to note tlnt during the war, the Army actually had more ships than the Naly. All Army personnel and supplies had to be transported by sea. The crews aboard Army vessels were civilians and the ships' officers were Naval Reserves. Navy vessels, other than hospital ships, were either for fighting the war or for moving naval supplies. During and immediately after W.W.[ the only available transportation for wounded or ill military personnel who were overseas was via hospital ships. Airplanes were for fighting or reconnaissance. By international law, hospital vessels traveled under the Geneva Treaty; so they were unarmed, nontombatant, fully lighted at night and transacted all their communications in plain English. Because radar was considered to be a weapon, it was not available to hospital ships. In essen@, these ships were the same as ships of a neutral country. Radio operators on hospital ships during the war were all enlisted personnel. The Army was strongly considering the possibility of assigning WACs as radio operators aboard Army hospital ships. WACs were ideally suited for this type of assignment because of the ships' non-combatant status and because other women were also aboard, serving as nurses and Red Cross workers. 39 Spring 1994
Page 2 and 3: EDITORIAL In With The New, Continue
Page 4 and 5: QCWA Officers And Board Of Director
Page 6 and 7: Please address your lelters to Edil
Page 8 and 9: Dear Editor: Yonr New QCWA Joumal i
Page 10 and 11: A Couple Of Letters From The ARRL h
Page 12 and 13: By: Jack Kelleher, W4ZC NTIA Action
Page 14 and 15: tTlh. following candidates have bee
Page 16 and 17: a charter memhr of the Nutmeg Chapt
Page 18 and 19: Troster is the editor of *The Jug,"
Page 20 and 21: Meetings continued twice a year, mu
Page 22 and 23: NESCON. NESCON was organized in Oct
Page 24 and 25: Later that afternoon we headed back
Page 26 and 27: By: Betty Strattan, W2PVS, as told
Page 28 and 29: Note: I indioates life member and ^
Page 30 and 31: 1994 aCWA National Convention El Pa
Page 32 and 33: QCWA Lapel pins are gold plated, wi
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Page 40 and 41: In 1944 Sgt. Given was selected to
Page 42 and 43: Olympics in order to train for the
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Page 50 and 51: KLTAF; Vice-President, Chuck Sappah
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