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Sailors traditionally raise hell in port, and David Frazeur. a seaman on the Steel Navigator, is a traditional sailor. When his ship docked at a port in tropical Sumatra about a month ago, he went ashore like a tidal wave. Next day, having managed to get back aboard, he awoke to find in his bunk a scaly, lizard-like creature about a foot long, with a stubby snout and a tongue that looked like a worm. Seaman Frazeur greeted the creature with no amazement, named it Pandora, fed it on milk and egg yolk. When he went back...
When the German army crossed the Austrian border last March, incorporated Austria into the Reich, OE3AH sat at his radio apparatus in Schloss Sonnberg filling his log with records of the short-wave contacts he was making for a high score in an international DX contest. A week after the contest closed, a London Exchange Telegraph dispatch reported that Archduke Anton von Habsburg, brother-in-law of Rumania's King Carol, had been arrested and sent to a concentration camp because of the discovery of a "secret radio station" in his home. That news (despite prompt newspaper denials...
...station has 1,000 watts, will use most U. S. amateur wave lengths (5 m., 10 m., 20 m., 40 m., 80 m., 160 rn.). Two operators will keep it on the air twelve hours a day, handle League messages, broadcast amateur news to radio "hams." There are 49,000 licensed U. S. amateur operators, an enormous reserve on which the army and navy communications people depend for personnel in case of war. Some 4,000 amateurs are in Chicago this week for the first national A.R.R.L. convention to be held in 14 years. Amateur operators range in age from...
Across the continent they talk, call each other "Old Man," but seldom meet. Their relative freedom in the use of U. S. air waves they credit to The Old Man (pseudonym under which Founder Maxim wrote for QST-see p. 67). When in 1914 Inventor Maxim was unable to reach with his Hartford transmitter a fellow amateur 30 miles away in Springfield, he arranged to have his message relayed by a third amateur operator, conceived and organized the A.R.R.L. to put such relays on a nationwide basis. In 1919, when the U. S. Government was reluctant to give...
Serge Prokofieff (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC-Blue). Russian composer-pianist in a concert of his own works by short wave from Moscow...