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I was talking with a fellow ham today (I’m not sure how he feels about being named in random blog posts so I wont mention his callsign, but trust me he’s real ), and we were discussing emergency communications on behalf of other stations.

I found the following video on YouTube that I thought he might like. It’s a great old 1940’s news reel style film about Short Wave Radio operators (aka “hams”). The stories told within are presumably true of course … but done in that awesome cheesiness that was 1940-ish news reels.