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Show 4 I j CLUB HAS NO NAME; INCLUDES PRINCIPAL RADIO AMATEURS r An organization without officers or I any form of government is being con-. con-. ducted today by nearly all licenced ra- dlo amateurs of the United States Ii has no name It was never con-stltuted con-stltuted as a body. It has no constitution con-stitution or by-laws No meetings, p Yet it Includes In Its membership nearly every licensed radio amateur In the country This "organization" was in existence exist-ence for some time before the war, and has been spreading rapidly slneK the armlstlci Any licensed operator ma Join It There is no expense. No dues. The only way the members keep In touch with one another is by means of a post card system. Each amateur has his own post card on which Is printed his name and address, and. In lain. tie, hi- station call code Besides Be-sides tills, the amateur has a description descrip-tion of his own sending and receiving .sci and blank spaces for remarks and Information for the fellow members to whom he sends his card OPERATION. I A typical way In which this organization organ-ization works is this Station SAl'X at Cleveland. ' . Is I transmitting a message on his allotted allot-ted short waVS length of not more i than COO meters, to station f.HK at I Oklahoma City Station 1KD, at I Midvllle. Ga.. happens to be tuned !.. exactly the same wave length and nets the signals between 8AT'X and . 5HKT. Every arr.nteur Is waiter to learn of r tho greatest distance find new areas nt which hn own fet can be heard In return, he is Just as eapr to let another amateur Know of any distant dis-tant messages he nas succeeded in Intercepting Therefore 4FD fill? out two cards, explaining the conditions under which he happened to receive the ilgnals Of 8AUX iml .".HK and sends one to each ot his fellow members. Thus, RAT'X nnn 6HK are glad to barn their sta'lr.n were heard as1 far off aa Midvllle. Ga. Tbla national Intcrchanfre of cards is the onl- mctb.'.l amdteurs ha'e to, learn how far their messages are heard or how efficient their sets are. A. R. R. ly SUPERVISION Along the si me plans hen one station cannol gel another it hap-1 pens to be cnlling, sonic Intermediate station Intercepts the menage and passi.s it ..n Tho federal government however, ' has recognized that some sort of supervision -would have to be main- ; talned over the relay of such mes- j sages This power of supervision It I has turned over to the American Radio Relay league, an orga nlz:itlon j composed of a large part of the II-ccnserl II-ccnserl amateurs In the country. Perhaps half, or even more, of the licensed amateurs are not members: of this duly constituted organization It is these, in addition to the A. R R Jj. members, h. make up the large national nrgi nidation without . a name or constitution. I |