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Olympics in order to train for the job and to iron out any bugs in the radio installations. Aside from arnateur radio, there was no other possible communications for the snow-bound area. These ham radio operators handled everything from ski accidents to finding out which snow+at had the trainers' lunches aboard. Esther spent 14 days at Squaw Valley, which, for her, was an experience of a lifetime. She was one of three BAYLARCs who served in this capacity. Altogether, there were six YLs and about 50 OMs as operators and several other OMs doing equipment maintenance. Because she worked within a five mile radius of her QTH for many years, she was on+all at the local hospital. Whenever there was a power failure in the rural community, the hospital's telephone system went out of commission and would not function under generator operation. Esther would supply 2-meter communication with the hospital's headquarters hospital in San Francisco' These blackouts occurred frequently during heavy storms, unfortunately, when accident victims were numerous' The telephone communications problem was solved several years ago and a ham standby is no longer needed' She has also been involved in community public service which includes the following: RACES for 47 years, guarding emergency frequencies during earthquakes, tidal wave scares, forest ftres, and heavy storms. Her QTH is within 500 yards of the Pacific Ocean and those who live on the coast are very tidal wave conscious' Tidal Riglrt after World Wff II th€re w€re not many new Amateur tansmitters on the market; so, most of us built orr own, eithff tom militaty surplus radio eqrripment or frun soratch. My first was frsn scratoh, a 6V6 crystal oscillator and an 807 final. Radio tubes we,re easilY obtaind because the surplus stses had many t)'pes. Moat mdio equiprnurt us€d during the war had similar tubes as thry wene established tlpes then. The 6V6 or 6AG7 tub€s were colnrrron oscillators, and tlrc 807 was a 75 watt widely used final; with care you muld drir,rc it to 90 watts input. kr that respec! it was a forertuurer ofthe 6146 hrbe. A two stage crystal cortolled rig was easy to build (still is if you have tlre tr.rbes). We used plug-in coils to set r.rp the band desired. The tansmiuer would start out on CW but later, by building a modulatoto plate, u screen grid modulate the final it was not difficult to get on AM ptrone, eith€r. The modulation tansformer was the keY to success' Being crystal conholle4 most of us obtained serreral crystals, keeping in mind some QCIITA Journal My Early Stations By: Pete lturdlmarL N7DUC, 3233 San Pedro Way, Union City, CA 94587' codd be doubled and oscillate inside the next bend up. Swihhing crystals was derrel@ to allow all the crystals to be installed inside the rig. The next steP was of mruse a VFO, which, in my case, drove me nuts for weeks kying to get my hune brew VFO to stay on freqr.renry. I eldEd up usug both positive, and negative coefficie,nt capacitors, tlreofu padding lhe oscillalor, and a glass bead supported variable to tune the coil that was wound tightly on a c€ramic form. Success came at last! It felt like chains had been removed and I was free! The little twotube rig made marry QSOs, sorne of them DX. The bands were not as crowded then as now and 50 watts worked fine qr 20 or 40 meters. Ilallicrafters came out with a twotube rig, called the IIT-17. I had the F{allicrafters 5-100 receiver and the HT-17 addition proved to be a perfect match. I had much fiur with a center fed dipole, and an end fd 7-W antenna. I used eithera V-B€am m long wire pointed at Ewope to enable me to compete with ttle W6 42 waves occur frequently following severe earthquakes and travel about 500 MPH. Ham radio is an excellent checking system during one ofthese events. Her greatest joy in amateur radio has been in lasting friendships she has accrued in her 48 years of the hobby' Esther is one of the few women in the Society of <strong>Wireless</strong> Pioneers, an organization of wireless telegraphers most of whom were operators aboard ship or at shore stations carrying marine communications. She was the first woman to qualiS, for membership in this elite group. Esther's ham radio activities consist of meeting two nets each week, one of which is the Ironing Board Net, on 7233 kHz and the other is a round kble of YLs who live along the coast and meet on 4O-meters, SSB. Esther uses the Yaezu FT 707 series and she has capabilities for using 2-meters. She said that she can still copy CW in her head at around 20 WPM but has not used that mode of operation for quite some time. To say the least, Esther has given so much of her time, talent and tenacity to ham radio, to military service, and to humanity. She helped pave the way for women who choose to serve in a military capacity and through her formation of SWOOP and her ham radio writings, she has provided much levity for those involved in the hotiby. Esther, you are tnrly an inspiration to all who know you. Former Lt. Given, you have given us so very, very much. Therefore, we regard you very, very highly and former Lt. Given we salute you for all you have "giveu" to us. Kilowatters using beams. I heard ore time that some W6s were running up to 5 kW. It s€em€d strange ttr,at at tinrcs when hardly any signals were heard tlrat Califsnians were working DX. I always put il dov*n as skip omrditions, and geogmphic adrantages! Hum! Iater, I b,uilt a ph,unber's &light beam, a mono-bard three elernent Yagi. I did mnsider up to fiw elements for otlrer bsnds; but I fuially settled on a full size three elerrpnt wi& spaced Yagi fu 20-meters. It was big arrd I nrean a really BIG antenna. My advice to new Amatqrs just starting ort Dqr't be suckered into all cryrunercial equipffEnq ty building it younelf It is so satis$ing to use troneb,rew gear and erperiment with wire antennas. There are some good DX reaching models in the trandbooks. I-ook thern up and buildoneoftlrem. I hqe to wqk Yor with Your hornebrew equipment sonredaY! 73 d€ Pete Harrdlnuru N7DUC.
Active Chapters A great deal of growth md dynamic character of @wA is a direct result of tlre chaflers *@ cqrtirsrt and across ttre wuld or chapters f**-the o,pptrt eewA activities and rnake it possible to enjoy the fellowship of old-timers without &iving lmg di$arrc€s to attend medings. The fir$ cha$o was fomod in l95l and ttre latest orrc in 1993, ssne 42 years later. ttre-chapters ue self govanring" maldng an umual r€port to theNatiural-organizatioq ad ttry operate in substantial agreefirent wift the Nadonal constitutior and-By-I-aws. ctuCIers se assigrcd nrunbers issred qr the basis of ttreir ctrarter dates' Tlrose n,mbers are cqrtinui fu tlre chapter even though the chapter rnay bcune inactira. Sanre of the funuly inactive chaPt€rs have been re-sctivated and sune have e,en changed tlrcir names. The followirfi [s.t is of current, active Chapters. Pleas contact Head+rsters to make any changes, additius, a del*iqrs to tltis li$- l. 2. 4. ). 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. ll. 12. 14. 16. 17. 19. 20. 21. 23. n. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. v. 35. x. 37. 38. 39. N. 41. a. 44. 45. 6. 48. 49. 51. 52. v. 55. 58. 59. CI 61. 62. 63. il. Cleveland ChicagoArea Nstwest DelawareValley Pitsburgh Soutlreur California UpperMdwest SouthwestOhio Mchigan Nqtlrern California ScrfitrcastRuida SanDego Arizuu (Bary M Goldwater) Allentrown-Bethlelrcm-Easton Mssouri Baltimue Cantqr, Ohio Washingto&DC Houstur CentalNewYork Fingolakes WeslVirginia Readirg Gatu Gundersur Perm-JerseY Jota Md{urtfurcnt Northwest Irdiana Harrisbtrg SanAntmio AIcrqI Alabama Dallas Mchau&Valley HmverDun Citrus Founder's Treasre Coasf Atlmta TEn-Ia GoldenTrirgle Missi*sippi GulfCoast Tyler Wiscmsin Colmdo CentralIllinois East Termesse DeEoitMetuo Suwumee CentalOklaluna El Paso 65. NiagaraFrortier 6. Spaceport 67. Austin 68. WestBranch 69. Evoglades 70. National Capital 72. FortWorth 73. Souttrern Ontario 74. Muskegon 75. CentralCaliforniaCm$ 76. BlueRidge 77. NortlemNewJerseY 79. Sruflower 80. Caloosa 81. IonglslandQcrffA 82. Sailfistt U. Florala 85. Arkansas-Iouisiana-To
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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
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Page 26 and 27: By: Betty Strattan, W2PVS, as told
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