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COORDINATORS AROUND THE COUNTRY.  IN THE SPACE OF JUST THREE YEARS, A
SOPHISTICATED EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK ENTIRELY ORGANIZED AND
OPERATED BY HAMS HAD GROWN UP AND ASSUMED A CRITICALLY IMPORTANCE PLACE IN
THE NATIONS PUBLIC SERVICE.  HAMS LEAD THE WAY TO ADVANCE TECHNOLOGY THERE
WERE, OF COURSE, TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES BEHIND IT ALL, MUCH OF IT LED BY
AMATEURS.  BY THE MID 1920S, THE SPARK GAP HAD GIVEN WAY TO THE VACUUM TUBE
AND OPENED UP ENTIRELY NEW AREAS OF EXPLORATION.  OPERATION USING PORTABLE
EQUIPMENT BECAME VIABLE FOR THE AVERAGE HAM, AND THE PAGES OF QST
INCREASINGLY FEATURED CONSTRUCTION ARTICLES FOR PORTABLE TRANSMITTERS AND
RECEIVERS.  THE LINK BETWEEN PORTABLE OPERATION AND EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION
HAD LONG BEEN ESTABLISHED, AND WAS ENCOURAGED BY SUCH ARTICLES AS PORTABLE
RADIO IN WINTER BY RALPH C.  FOLKMAN, W8COX ASSOCIATE RADIO EDITOR FOR THE
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER, IN THE JULY 1929 ISSUE OF QST.  THE FIRST AND WORST
BLIZZARD OF THE SEASON, HE WROTE, TRAINS LATE, TRAFFIC SLOWED, THERMOMETER
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NA2U/334 NC6A/333 ND8L/332 NJ9K/330 NN9K/331 N01Q/336 OH1TX/349 OH2KQ/346
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