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Show radio operators chat with cmd assist unseen friends around the world vry day amateur Br EUGENE A. ARE MORE popular urn bafora. No, than dont naan tba aucculent itam ( maat sa often sought fair tba dining room table; wa naan tba apacias of human in- mAMS t dividual who builds bimaalf or barsalf a radio transmittar and begin convarsing with thar bumana halfway around tba glob. Under tba present provisions of tba F. C. C. (Federal Communications Commission ) , benevolent organisation controlling the s, it is perfectly possible nations for you to acquire a lieansa to transmit radio signals, and thus talk with others in every nook and corner of tba globe. All you need do is learn a little about the art of radio transmission. Youll begin in your by building a simple radio eet it down tear Than you'll attic or caller. nd rebuild it. YouD continue this process sntil you are familiar with the various youll have parts of a radio set. In addition to master the Morse Code, so that you can both send and receive coda at the rate of 10 words a minute. After Die coda and your radio be-- . some as femiliar to you as lest year's overcoat, you may take an examination jfmt no charge to yourself) in any one of many cities throughout the United States. Geographically speaking, there ere examination centers virtually everywhere. If you pass, end the chances ars all in your favor, you will become s radio amateur. . radio-wave- More than after-workin- are. g doctors, 90,000 of such gentry spend hours with their hobby. Many lawyers, merchants, ill CONKLIN priests, loo ars children for avao a even year aid may posses a license if b or she can pass the test. Handicapped and crippled individuals find amateur radio a boon indeed; the blind, and armless may be found among mambars of tba radio "ham fraternity. Every country in tba world, even Soviet Russia, allows its people to become radio amateurs, aav in the event of war, when the privilege is withdrawn for the duration. What can you find to talk about in your QSOs (the ham slanguage for conversations)? Bull sessions ever the amateur ther waves cover a multitude of subjects. A farmer in Georgia may discuss soil conservation with a tiller of the soil m down under Australia. Not so vary long ago, a fruit merchant in Iowa discusaed apples and other such commodities with a fruitvending compatriot in far off Bombay, India. Recently amateur radio wa pressed into service when blixxards swept all of Kansas, Colorado, and points East. Hams made it possible for important messages to go through when wires ware down and mail trains stalled in foot deep snows. A doctor in Kansas City, Missouri, and a physician in Omaha, Nebraska, were able to carry on a discussion relative to spinal disease which saved not one but several lives and helped countless others to prolong their own existence. Several months ego a radio ham in Cedar Rapids was talking with a fallow . Tli a ham language' is mysterious yet-highly interesting nevertheless. For ample 73 means so long or goodbye, OM means of course "old man, friend- ly form of greeting, used in such expression "How are you feeling, om? "YL means the girl friend and "ex yl has reference long since replaced. to an old flam wava aet (mad tha a abort If you .own receiver today radio American of majority e freare equipped to cover the on tba means ell 'eavesdrop quencies j by "ham bands where you will find the ntira world camping at your radio door, step. amateur in Caracas, Venezuela. An at went off once the Venezuelan to failed and the air with no explanation, hour. an half for air nearly the return to Worried, the Iowan amateur made contact with another Caracas amats'ir and asked him to visit the borne of the first amateur ' operator. When this was done, it was discovered gbat the amateur in question had collapsed from a heart attack. Medical aid eras profew vided, end the amateur revived. A moments more end e human life would hav been no mors. This happens virtually dey in one form or another. radio-send- er Jill five-eod-t- - i - s mail-bo- x on tba hosts, dropping it in a amazed phone their way home, and getting call when they receive our card the very next ,dsy. to informal parties 7. Serd invitation or showers. 1 think it's more friendly to ,cardt than imper-,onsend out And since I v mt limes one. printed try to write funny little verves to fit the our recipient, our guests start enjoying Ycuf to it. before get they long parly isn't: it p- ejr vi r.eedn t be good, mine ts en hand-writte- aI n - want ti.-r- rj our guevts we r,en we go to the trouble of thmkirg up: T hit it no I&k t Ke w .in you. Blare 7o help ut trcai cake And rtith the w lu rupee tr,ak e p Write to all the stay at be rr.es when we go away on a trip. Before we leave, address one postal apiece to all our friends, and mad them sjxut half way , , , 1 this scunos during our vacation. Mijbe; too grimly efficient, but Z thjr.k i s a lame excuse to say. when we get home, "A remember; your address. ;ut9. couldn't Serai cheerful notes to friends in hospitals. If you've ever been shut up for - g, de-kght-ed t short-wav- ww and nE OF THE MOST useful "gad-gehousehold least expensive I know of comes, not from or from the hardware store, the S. post office. U. the from hut This gadget always works beautifully. it requires no It never goes out of order, use at the scratch for upkeep, and it's ready aid f a pem I know no other household a such for returns such big that brings of miracles It performs investment. small economy, friendship, and convenience. What is it? The ordinary penny postcard. By keeping a batch of penny postals with s pair bandy in my dish closet, slong I . of a and paste. jar uf scissors 1. Get wonderful free samples of cossoap for metics, new breakfast foods, liquid all the other and cocoa, dishes, washing manufacturers offer thing that generous advertisements. in via coupons I 2. Write away for every pamphlet ee mentioned that soundi as if it might a b of use to me. My kitchen library is collection of helpful interesting pamphlets decorat-bia health and nutrition, interior food, marital relations, spot removing, and Unins, canning, the car of glassware free I reading by 11 which of get etc. off a postal advertisement, and dashing me to. Or whenever an advertiser invites Women s the like federal agency when some ofBureau or Department of Agriculture s Woman the fers material, usually through local paper. of my Editor 3 Mail recipes and household hints friends nd interesting bits of information to them. have to be will glad whom I know berself an knitted friend For instance, wa distressed angora sweater and then much. She was so ahedded it because and grateful when I sent her an if you Ham saying angora won't sbed beep it in the refrigerator. Another friend, whose husband i deaf, and H terrified that deafness is hereditary', daughher when that thinks ha elder, aba'll become deaf. I send ter g friend every item on deafness I come tk; bar to articles I happen refer ecTom, er , oa the subject. Shes beginningSuchto that her fears are groundless. r(,i (ars usually coma from ignorance anyway. i tliroe weeks in a ho-pit- room, you know al tut difference between getting on fancy card and a j handwritten postal couple of days. The morning, mail tecomrs the most exciting event of th dy: and if theres, nothing in the mail and forgotten. for you. you feel we live ini 10. Got the apartment When we were evicted from our previous I had a few hundred, place three years-agopostals mimeographed and mailed them to the superintendents of apartment .houses listed m the classified-phondirectory. Th next day we had an apartment. When still another place was offered us. we dug up, among the "Apartment Wanted' ads a worthy veteran who needed a place so he could get married. Our glow from that good deed still hasn't get-wei- AH tor Just a Penny let-dow- n By HELEN COLTON When you read up on the subject, cu find you were wrong in your ideas and finally develop some peace cf mind .4. Keep up a pleasant correspondence with friends end relatives all over the gets country. The correspondence never to be a burden. If I waited till 1 could send off a long letter, I'd probably never write to lots of nice people I want to keep in touch with. A newsy postal once every few weeks, scribbled while I'm waiting for the iron to get hot, savts me from those unanswerable complaints, "Miy don t . write more often.' 5 Save the expense of replacing rrv' husbands hat every time he forgets it somewhere Inside the inner hatband m husband carries a postal, addressed to bim-'our on which it says. "Dear Martin, hat awaits you at our place." All we ask gn it and cf our friends is that they mailbox. a into it drop notes. My husband 6. Send thank-yoand I keep cards in the glove compartment cf our car and get fun out cf wTiting a thank you card right after we've left our vr u ,, u ! e j worn off. Congress is now considering possibly raising the cot of postal cards. But no matter what happens to our old friend, we can always remember the pleasure he has brought us. And all for a penny. . . |