Calling CQ

The Arm of the Law
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A Vagabond Ham
CLYDE DE VINNA is a born wanderer with the wanderlust in his veins and a job that allows him to obey its call. He was home in Hollywood with his family over the Christmas holidays a couple of years ago, but that was the first time in six years. Before that he has been in Tahiti photographing Last of the Pagans, in China for The Good Earth, a"../img/dart.gif" Circle ma"../desoto/ends.html", down in Africa with Trader Horn or in half a dozen other of the remote places of the earth pursuing his profession.

To The Ends Of The Earth
TO DATE no radio amateur has yet adventured on Mars or explored the craters of the moon--at least not outside the comic strips and the pseudo-science magazines. But there are very few spots on this little old earth where some ham ha"../img/dart.gif"red, from "../desoto/spirit.html"troposphere to the depths of the Carlsbad Caverns and from the tangled jungles of Matto Grosso to the ice and snow of the Arctic.

The Final Flight of the Dallas Spirit
There are many thrilling episodes in the chronicle of radio's achievements, but none more stirring than the 192"../img/dart.gif"ts, clima"../desoto/onthespot.html"llation of short-wave equipment on Captain Erwin's Dallas Spirit and the reception of its signals right up to the time of its tragic end.

On The Spot
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Hurricane
In 1938 it was a hurricane and tidal wave that put amateur radio to the test--a tropical hurricane, the first in 150 years, that came screaming over New England, bringing death and destruction. Over Long Island and into Connecticut and Rhode Island swept the shrieking, churning vortex of high-speed air. Across Long Island and inland along an unfamiliar route the storm center sped, its cross-country velocity the swiftest ever recorded--fo"../img/dart.gif"per hour. "../desoto/flood.html" gusts of ninety--one hundred--even more miles per hour demolished flimsy structures, lifted roofs and steeples, snapped and uprooted hundreds of thousands of trees.