James Brown (builder, Navy) at our ham radio station KC4USN
Philip K Swartz - 1960-61 - South Pole Station - Antarcticans Database Project more

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Ham operators in the states would run phone patches for us and let us stay in touch with family. Especially Jules at K2KGJ and Betty at W6QPI. I was able to call my grandfather in California on the occasion of his 90th birthday. In his life he had seen the coming of telephones, radio, television, cars, planes, and satellites! He recounted having talked over the first telephone line in Harrisburg PA on its first day in operation - he said it ran from the mayor's office to the local mental institution!

Pictures from Philip K Swartz, overwinter, South Pole, 60-61