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Title: QST
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: American Radio Relay League
Subjects: Radio Radio
Publisher: (Newington, Conn., etc., American Radio Relay League)
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ECWlMD, conducted fire pa-trol, since most of the citystelephones and fire-alarm cir-cuits were out. The followingamateurs participated in thisactivity: Wis AYG BIYDMS MD NMK SXN and W5HNW. In the New Bedford area, WlAVY/1 wasactivated on 75 meters and WlWKM on ten.The following operators were on watch at thesestations: Wis AEN* AGG* AVY* AWH* BMQ*CTZ* HPH* LAZ* MHN OH* TZU* UIDWU* WGN* and ZPE*. Those marked withan asterisk also operated mobile rigs when noton duty from one of the control stations. A totalof 538 messages was handled to and from thearea. New Bedford nets also tied into Fair-haven on ten meters, where about 15 mobileswere cooperating with local pohce and mili-tary. The Cape Cod-Islands Emergencj^ Net on3912 did a very fine job restricting traffic forCape and Islands. Other nets active were theDeep Sea Dragnet on 3970, TranscontinentalPhone Net on 3970 and the Early Bird Net on3845. In Worcester, the RACES net was activatedwithin a matter of minutes by Radio Officer and
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EC WlSPF. ^lost of the damage suffered wasfrom rain, although power was off over mostof the city. Emergency power was supplied forc.d. headquarters by the ROTC at WorcesterTech. WlSPF reports 28 amateur radio operatorson duty, plus four girls with restricted operatorpermits and 14 more waiting in reserve. Thefollowing are particularly to be commended fortheir work: WlNZD/m, who was the first toreport; WlAET, who took net control; WlSPGfor his fine work in relaying; and WIQCQ, who^took over at WlYEW net control. Other ama-teurs participating in the order in which theymade their appearance: Wis VDT LIB/m TJOONA/m SDU NZD/m UQL/m VLN/m AJVNNI/m UQW/m ZJW/m CS YPG RIL ZTLVPE/m SPG/m VGH CLU/m AAP/m JWM/mand \^^K. In Norfolk (Mass., that is), emergency opera-tion was complicated by a prison break from theNorfolk Prison Colony. The hurricane hit its peakhere at about 1500, August 31st, and took out all January 1955 43 means of communication other than radio. A gaso-line-driven generating pl

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