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...This is W1AF, Whiskey, One, Alpha, Foxtrot,” Clayton M. Nall calls into the microphone as he wiggles the dial on a large ham radio...
...Nall, a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, leans in toward the speaker and listens for hints of words among the crackling static. He adjusts the 20-foot antennae atop the clubhouse of W1AF, home of the Harvard Wireless Club...
...past, W1AF and other Boston area ham radio clubs have set up battery or solar powered stations on islands in Boston Harbor and forests outside the city during their field days. Participants are charged with contacting certain base stations without the help of modern conveniences such as the power grid...
...group had already done some emergency work during floods, fires, and storms. When the telephone system in Vermont went on the blink this fall, a group of "ham" stations, including W1AF, relayed outgoing messages from the area...
Several members of the club have done similar work outside the regular jurisdiction of W1AF. Four members have their own stations and call numbers. Christopher W. Davis of the Divinity School is registered as W1JLW. James C. Hirschman '52, the present president of the club runs station W9UQD from his room in Adams C-54, while Hampton operates from Dunster under the call of W1SWQ. The only mobile set is operated by John F. Ashton '51 of Leverett, who is active in civilian defense work...