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December 2014 DEBUNKED? Clyde De Vinna, W6OJ; Clinton Desoto, W1CBD; and Peter Freuchen K9YA Telegraph Robert F. Heytow Memorial Radio Club Volume 11, Issue 12 December 2014 DEBUNKED? Clyde De Vinna, W6OJ; Clinton DeSoto, W1CBD; and Peter Freuchen Philip Cala-Lazar, K9PL Place Art work Here t has been a long time in he made his sked with McLaughlin, a lighthouse Icoming, so we have to dig keeper in New Zealand. As they chewed the rag the a bit into the past to reveal it. lighthouse keeper noticed that De Vinna’s normally For more than eight decades crisp and concise bug sending was becoming increas- famed Hollywood cinema- ingly erratic and eventually “…stalled and settled into tographer Clyde De Vinna’s one prolonged dash.” (1890-1953) near fatal as- Fearing the worst, McLaughlin tuned the band and phyxiation by carbon mon- heard the Hawaii station K6EWQ, also one of De oxide while operating CW Vinna’s regular contacts. Informed of Clyde’s plight, Philip Cala-Lazar, K9PL on location in Alaska has been accepted as part of the Oahu-based operator, via a directional CQ, raised Editor the amateur radio canon. His misadventure has been an operator in Nome. That operator notified Teller Mike Dinelli, N9BOR recounted in film, print, word of mouth police via land telegraph of De Vinna’s Layout and now, Wikipedia. situation. Soon, police broke down the door to De Vinna’s shack and found Dick Sylvan, W9CBT In 1932 De Vinna was in Alaska film- “Mankind is Staff Cartoonist ing Eskimo. That film, released in 1933, him slumped over his key. The doctor was based on Peter Freuchen’s books, developing strange who followed the police to his site soon Storfanger (1927), Der Eskimo (1928) revived him. Rod Newkirk, VA3ZBB (SK) powers…” Die Flucht ins Weisse Land Contributing Editor and (1929). The doctor reportedly said, “Radio was 2004 - 2012 In addition to purchasing the rights to it? Mankind is developing strange powers his books, MGM paid Freuchen $300 a for itself these days, it seems to me. Well, week as a “production assistant.” He also appears in an whatever it was, it worked.” Departing, he chuckled uncredited role in the film as the villainous Captain. “grimly and without humor, ‘Call the doctor! The A Vagabond Ham nearest telephone line is ten thousand miles away.’” Chapter 5, “A Vagabond Ham,” in DeSoto’s 1941 Two years earlier that story was depicted in one episode classic, Calling CQ is dedicated to De Vinna, W6OJ, of the 1939 Pete Smith MGM short, Radio Amateurs. and his many adventures as a globe-trotting cinema- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBGIdf0VjQ4 tographer and amateur radio operator. From DeSoto’s account, in 1932, while filmingEskimo , De Vinna CONTINUED - DEBUNKED? ON PAGE 8 wintered aboard the supply steamer Nanuk anchored near the town of Teller, close to Nome, Alaska. Ashore, Inside This Issue… operating as K7UT, De Vinna fitted out an “eight- by-ten shack” with radio gear and a gasoline stove DEBUNKED? Page 1 “confiscated” from the Nanuk to heat the small struc- Christmas Cheer Page 2 ture. For a skyhook W6OJ “erected a high antenna” About the Cover Page 7 Robert F. Heytow that afforded him many skeds, particularly with ops Memorial Radio Club in California, Hawaii and New Zealand. 2014 K9YA Telegraph Authors Page 7 www.k9ya.org One fateful night De Vinna, after lighting the station Ham Lingo Page 8 t [email protected] lamp, “turned… up full” the gasoline stove. At 5 pm Copyright © 2014 Robert F. Heytow Memorial Radio Club. All rights reserved. Volume 11, Issue 12 2 Christmas Cheer Kimberly L. Elmore, N5OP old. Cold, windy, snowy, “Do you really like these radios, or is this your way Ctired, and far, far from of staying warm?” home. That’s all Lt. Gene Nielson could think of that “Both! I’m from Oklahoma, so I hate the cold. But, Christmas Eve in 1944. How I’ve loved radios ever since I can remember. Call it he hated this crummy war and a passion.” the crummy Germans. Oh! “A passion? Really?” Skaggs chided. Place Art work Here For some hot chocolate, the glow of the family’s Christmas “Oh, yeah. When the war broke out, I was the chief tree back in Oklahoma, and engineer at KOME, in Tulsa, Okla homa. I filled a his cat, Peter, in his lap. ‘necessary’ role at home and had a draft deferment. The station manager offered to extend it, but I refused Medium height and border- and volunteered.” ing on skinny, Gene found the relentless cold bone-chilling. “A job like that must have been tough to give up.” As he took his comms shift, he thought one of the best things about being a signal- “You bet! My family was pretty bad off during the man was that the equipment always kept the room Depression, so a good job is a trea sure. Times were warm in winter. He’d just finished the last exchange hard, so I went off to the NYA when I was 16 and…” with “MX” when, as if on cue, the door flew open WPA and NYA and with it, a blast of cold and snow. “NYA?” “Criminy! Close the door! Ya born in a “Yeah; National Youth Administration, barn, ya stupid sonofa…” He turned to “…thinkin’ part of the WPA. They offered to teach glare angrily at the intruder. “Oh. Sorry, me radio, and I jumped at it. Earned my Reverend.” Chaplain Skaggs was older about radio and ham radio license and became W5JHJ. than even the CO, gentle, fit, and gray Christmas Eve.” After I studied some more, Dad drove around the temples. The men loved him me to the FCC office in Dallas where because he listened. I passed the First Class Radio telephone and Second Class Radiotelegraph exams “That’s alright. And, as a matter of fact, and… Say, do you really want to hear this?” I was born in a barn.” The chaplain’s eyes sparkeld with mischief. “Well, it’s a barn now, anyway… Stayin’ “Sure! Go on,” urged Skaggs. warm, lieutenant?” “Well, when I volunteered for the Signal Corps, I was “Barely. More equipment would help. What brings commissioned as a 2nd ‘louie right off ‘cause of my you by, reverend?” experience. I skipped basic radio training, and went straight to the final test: tuning one of these babies,” “Oh, well, I came by because you’ve got about the he patted the huge BC-610 cabinet to his left, “at 18 only warm place in camp.” The chaplain smiled mc, the top of its frequency range, into a light bulb. again. Gene pulled his coat closer, and resettled the It’s not easy ‘cause the load is reactive. Most guys earphones so one ear was uncov ered. fumble with it, but I’d done it before.” Gene chuckled at the memory. “Anyway, the light bulb was too small “If I’m bothering you…” Robert F. Heytow and it lit up almost blue-white. The sergeant watching Memorial Radio Club “No, no. I can talk with you and copy at the same me wasn’t ready. I can still hear him yell: ‘OK! OK! www.k9ya.org time. I’ll catch anything for us. I was just thinkin’ Knock it off, already!’ Must’ve been the only bulb they t [email protected] about radio and Christmas Eve.” had. Anyway, I shipped out in Spring ‘43,” K9YA Telegraph Copyright © 2014 Robert F. Heytow Memorial Radio Club. All rights reserved. Chaplain Skaggs thought. “And you were assigned “QRZ?” Might as well; he sent “OM,” after all. here?” “DE D4BVI FW OM K” 3 “I’m lucky; it beats stringin’ wire on a battlefield. I’m Call letters?! German ham call letters? Ham radio had good at Morse code – CW – and fast, so they assigned become legal in Germany some time in the 1930’s me to company command.” and, to his delight, he’d worked a couple of Germans “Hmmm. So, what is it about radio and Christmas early one morning on 20 m. Sadly, the war soon Eve?” broke out and all European DX vanished. Shortly after, Radio and Christmas Eve? all DX was prohibited; then “I was just thinking that on Christmas Eve, I’d wish came Pearl Harbor and ham everyone Merry Christmas, ‘MX’ in CW. Haven’t radio was silenced “for the managed that for awhile…” Gene sighed and trailed duration.”What about the off. “FW OM” business? His Chaplain Skaggs regarded the young man carefully. high-school German came “Well, it’s Christmas Eve again. You’ll find gifts in the dimly back to him: FW could Place Art work Here unlikeliest places.” Skaggs got up and stretched his mean Fröhliche Weihnachten, legs. “I’m warm enough now. Guess I’d better turn in. German for “Merry Christ- Good night, Gene. And, Merry Christmas.” mas.” But, why would a Ger- man wish an American Merry “Thanks, Reverend. Merry Christmas to you, too.” Christmas? He readjusted his headphones and thought briefly about the Allied forces desperately fighting to close “D4BVI DE W5JHJ FB OM “the Bulge” in a Belgian forest called the Ardennes. -- QTH? K” Why not? Might He’d heard enough to be grateful he wasn’t there. as well use my own call. Around 2300 local time, Gene finished copying Gen- “GERMANY,” was the appropriately useless reply. eral Eisenhower’s Christmas greeting to the troops. But, there was more: “NAME HR THEO -- QTH? Gene knew the operator at division K” HQ, another ham, so they both chatted “TNX -- OP GENE -- QTH briefly about home and family, ending FRANCE,” equally useless information the exchange with a sincere “MX OM.” “ONE DAY to humor the guy.
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