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“MRAC” Version 2019 1917-2019 – 102 YEARS! The History Of The Milwaukee Radio Amateurs’ Club Inc. “MRAC” Version 2019 1917-2019 – 102 YEARS! 100 Years of ARRL Affiliation! The History of the Milwaukee Radio Amateurs’ Club Inc. 2019 Edition Contents Introduction ..................................................................................................... 3 Credits/Revision History ................................................................................. 6 The History of the History ............................................................................... 8 The MRAC Archives ....................................................................................... 11 The Amateur’s Code ...................................................................................... 13 A Historical Timeline ..................................................................................... 14 The Beginning as Told By Someone Who Was There ...............................122 ARRL Club Affiliation ...................................................................................125 A Brief History of MRAC Bylaws .................................................................129 From Dollars to Doughnuts .........................................................................132 The MacArthur Parade .................................................................................134 Emil Felber W9RH ........................................................................................135 Set Another Place for Sister Margaret ........................................................137 A Letter from the Founder ...........................................................................140 ARES and MRAC ..........................................................................................141 MRAC and Field Day ....................................................................................148 Field Day 1961 ..............................................................................................151 MRAC and License Classes and Training ..................................................152 The Story of MRAC VEC ..............................................................................154 FM Simplex Contest .....................................................................................158 The W9RH Repeater .....................................................................................162 MRAC / MAARS Interclub Hamfest .............................................................171 Reminisces of the Daughter of Our Second President ..............................173 Meeting Program History .............................................................................175 Past Presidents of MRAC ............................................................................187 Past Officers and More of MRAC ................................................................188 Members Holding Positions with National Organizations .........................217 All Members of Milwaukee Radio Amateurs’ Club .....................................220 Silent Keys ....................................................................................................238 Introduction (2019) Just to get things started, I wish to offer a quote which while not directly related to amateur radio, helps to really define the term “amateur” as it may apply to us “hams”. This is a quote from Paul W. Klipsch, founder of Klipsch and Associates (now known as the Klipsch Group part of the Audiovox Corporation), one of the first, and still an important, high end audio equipment manfacturer. Among his many awards, Klipsch is the holder of 23 patents, is a member of the Engineering and Science Hall of Fame, the Audio Hall of Fame, and the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame. He once said of himself, "Audio was a hobby and then a profession, but I still consider myself an amateur in that an amateur is one who practices his art for love." This book is a brief (now in excess of 240 pages) compilation of the history of the Milwaukee Radio Amateurs’ Club with a bit of local and international history thrown in just to tie things all together. In this spot there used to be an introduction which started small but continued to grow until it became rather long all by itself, so we decided to make it a chapter and call it the History of the History. That sounded good as a way to explain how all the chapters came into being. The total history of the club cannot be told without bringing in the few thousand pages of documents that we have covering the business of the club from the beginning. Of course asking anyone to actually read all of that is a bit much, but to really dig into things feel free to have a look, the real story is in there (and we are still trying to digitize all of it). Hopefully we can keep this a living document so future amateur radio operators can fully appreciate the long and illustrious (and sometimes not so stellar) story of the Milwaukee Radio Amateurs’ Club. The plan is to still try update this document every year with at least the important events of the past year (both for MRAC and the world). With each passing year more club information is uncovered and additional articles will be added as discovered. If anyone has any information (or comments) on important topics as well as any information for the officer list, member list, or any other topic from our past (including the desire to write a chapter yourself) please contact us. More general electronics, radio, and technology news and history will be added to the timeline. This is so more people can be informed of the history and significance of technology and amateur radio’s place in that history. Also many new hams may find this document as one of their first exposures to this information. Over the years a lot of new hams get into the hobby to just talk. While there is nothing wrong with that, there is much more to the hobby. From the beginning, MRAC has always been interested in the education of its members and all hams in general. Maybe this book can help with that too. Something which may be noticed while reading the book. MRAC is not afraid to air its occasional dirty laundry. The club is not about to hide or distort the truth just to make itself look good. Only a proud, vibrant, and professional organization can operate with full and honest disclosure. This book of club history is really not the whole story. It is just an overview of what the club has done. There is also a photo album/scrapbook which overflowed 2 - 3 ring binders on paper so became a large slide show video presentation exclusively in 2015. At this time the videos are 95% silent, but a soundtrack of music and narration and more is high on the MRAC Club History Version 2019 - copyright © 1917-2019 The Milwaukee Radio Amateurs’ Club Inc. 3 list for future enhancements. There is also a full production (narration and background music) of an informational video for the club’s 100th anniversary. Be sure to check that out for a quick (15 minute) taste of our history. Finally, there is a never ending project of scanning all the collected club documents (or collecting electronic versions from recent computer generated documents) from the beginning of the club to current. Currently there is over 1GB of Adobe Acrobat files in the electronic archives (over 2200 files). All of this information is available to any club member or anyone interested in the club. We are investigating trying to get much of that information available on-line for all to access at any time (and then we won’t have to burn discs). Figure 1 - Some club archives (just paper, no photos) yet to be scanned. For a number of years the club touted itself as the oldest continuously active amateur radio club in the world. In the late 1990’s we discovered information that contradicts that (the information age and all made it easier to find the information). However, while a number of clubs actually started before MRAC. Only a handful of those remain and few have remained continuously active. MRAC has also been an affiliated club of the ARRL for 100 years. It is possible that no other club can equal that (check out the chapter on that very item). Even more interesting, MRAC has one of the largest collections of organization archives. Many clubs, even those who started much later than MRAC have little to no historical archives. Why members over the years decided to keep their information we do not know. We do know it helps make MRAC unique as well as provides historical information to the new member / ham. So MRAC is one of a very few of the world’s oldest continuously active amateur radio clubs. Also, MRAC was not the first club formed in the Milwaukee area. The Milwaukee Radio Association is one of a number of clubs that were formed prior to MRAC. That club died out during World War I and its membership was absorbed into MRAC. (Maybe we should change our start date?). The Milwaukee School of Engineering radio club actually started in 1914, the same year of the ARRL. The problem with school clubs is their operations ebb and flow based on students attending at the time. According to a letter from ARRL in 1969, MRAC at that time (50 years of affiliation) appeared to be the oldest continuously active radio club affiliated with ARRL. But why not read the story for yourself. Why should you care about the history of a lowly radio club? If you are an officer of MRAC Club History Version 2019 - copyright © 1917-2019 The Milwaukee Radio Amateurs’ Club Inc. 4 the club it is good to know what has
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