Word: qrr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aerial for his 600-watt transmitter, WiBDC. In a mile-a-minute gale, he slung a new aerial, by 7 p. m. had his transmitter working on five watts of dry-cell power. He sat down by kerosene lamplight, began calling the amateur's land signal of distress, QRR. Soon W2CQD at Roselle, N. J., 165 miles away, picked him up, turned him over to nearer WiSZ at West Hartford, Conn...