. QST . of components. The legalmaximum power input is only 50 watts. These fac-tors force each Spanish ham to use his ingenuity tothe limit. He must be a technician as well as opera-tor, and most EAs know their equipment inside the judicious use of antennas and good operatingconditions, the E.\ can hold his own with anyone inworking DX; and despite operating difficulties, EAsare typical hams and have the true ham spirit. There are very few Spanish YLs, and I was notonly the sole YL at the meeting, but one of the firstAmerican YLs ever to visit them. A reporter for Revista de Radio, the
. QST . of components. The legalmaximum power input is only 50 watts. These fac-tors force each Spanish ham to use his ingenuity tothe limit. He must be a technician as well as opera-tor, and most EAs know their equipment inside the judicious use of antennas and good operatingconditions, the E.\ can hold his own with anyone inworking DX; and despite operating difficulties, EAsare typical hams and have the true ham spirit. There are very few Spanish YLs, and I was notonly the sole YL at the meeting, but one of the firstAmerican YLs ever to visit them. A reporter for Revista de Radio, the UREs ama-teur organ, asked me about my personal amateuractivities, but no one asked me much about amateurradio in America, because so many of them readQST. Indeed, they know much more about us thanwe do about them! YLs You May Have Worked As a result of local newspaper publicity about the Young Ladies Radio Club, \V6LBO, Mary Brand-vig, publicity chairman of the club, was selected to appear. on the Groucho Marx uiliu and TV shows. February 16thand 17th. Mary and her program partner scored high on theciuiz show but slipped on the jackpot question. Licensed in1951. Mary finas her hilltop home at Manhattan Beachideal for working her favorite band — two meters. Shemaintains regular schedules with stations up to 200 milesaway. She is now serving with W9YBC as cochairman ofpublicity for the YLRL First International Convention inJune. Mary is the XYL of \V6EJL and the mother of ajunior op. (Continued on page 144) April 1955 55 ^ecA^icai (^onn^^fraH^cCe^ce— RE LOW-IMPEDANCETRANSMISSION LINES 17 Random RoadPrinceton, N. Editor, QST: Under Technical Correspondence (page 47) in theFebruary, 1955, issue of QST, Lt. John J. Dougherty has aletter which induces me to make certain comments. Whileit may be true that particular antenna configurations mayhave influenced some people who were responsible forstandardization of the characteristic impedance of trans-mission
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