. QST . e of the major damage. This power unit wastaken out of service at 2200 when the National Guardarrived with other power units. Commimications werefurnished from the scene of the disaster by \ W5VLF/m through fixed station WoCHF. Stationsparticipating were Was VLF SBS CHF JIB WDW WMXPNP UPO VHF/m DXD RDL DSG and TVA. Thisinformation furnished by WoVLF through , ECfrom Waco who followed the storm into Temple. — W5RRM, SEC Northern Texas On May 14th, wliile driving about .30 miles from Houston,WoGLS suddenly became ill. He contacted W5GVW/mon 75-meter mobile, and had them


. QST . e of the major damage. This power unit wastaken out of service at 2200 when the National Guardarrived with other power units. Commimications werefurnished from the scene of the disaster by \ W5VLF/m through fixed station WoCHF. Stationsparticipating were Was VLF SBS CHF JIB WDW WMXPNP UPO VHF/m DXD RDL DSG and TVA. Thisinformation furnished by WoVLF through , ECfrom Waco who followed the storm into Temple. — W5RRM, SEC Northern Texas On May 14th, wliile driving about .30 miles from Houston,WoGLS suddenly became ill. He contacted W5GVW/mon 75-meter mobile, and had them call his doctor, whoadvised W5GLS to get to any hospital as soon as GLS indicated the hospital he was headed for, thedoctor called this hospital and made all also made arrangements for a police doctor stated that if GLS had not gotten to the hospi-tal, he would have died. W5GVW, assisted by WN5GWP,handled this emergency traffic like an old timer. — WoFEK. A plane crash in Northboro, jMass., alerted the WorcesterAREC group on May 26th. EC WlSPF started the ballrolling by firing up on ten meters as soon as he iieard aboutthe crash and calling WILQW, who was talking witliWlYPIv in Holden. In less than two hours, nine otherstations had reported in, completely \\ithout warning ornotification of any kind, sho\\-ing how frequently membersof the Worcester AREC-RACES group guard their emer-gency net frequency. WlZMM/m went to the fire depart- ment at Northboro and was told an ambulance had alreadybeen sent to the scene of the crash. WIMIA was askedby the Marlboro Airport to locate the plane and getthe name of the party or parties involved in the and proceeded to the scene ofthe crash, Vnit police withheld the name of the crash victim,wlio was killed. The i)lane number was reported, howe\er,to the Marlboro authorities by amateur radio. WILQWhandled the net activity and everybody cooperated 100per cent. Others who p


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