Thanks Stuart! I was working from my feeble middle aged memory.
73 - Eric
W9WLW
On May 22, 2014 6:40:50 PM EDT, Stuart Rohre <rohre@arlut.utexas.edu> wrote:
|Eric and the group, the forerunner of ARES started back in the 30's
|when severe flooding hit the NE. There were various floods like the
|the
|large flood in PA where hams helped with radio.
|
|(It was WW I, not II when the Navy had some control of radio
|frequencies
|and did not want to relinquish its control to civilian and amateur
|groups. That was when the League lobbied Congress to save some
|frequencies for hams. The commercial interests and military were glad
|to give away the "useless" frequencies above 160M, as it was thought
|that longer range was achievable only at MF and below. In the 20's,
|hams in USA and Europe proved that the Atlantic could be spanned by use
|
|of higher frequencies than used in WW I.)
|
|Hartford, CT, and ARRL's then HQ, were taken out by a flood also. That
|
|raised the awareness of the need for Emergency Communications, and the
|League later established W1AW, the Maxim Memorial station before WW II
|to be a flagship station covering all ham spectrum.
|
|Stuart Rohre
|K5KVH
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