By the way, if you’re interested in the history of the building depicted on the coin (the Chicksands Priory, founded in 1152), there is an excellent Time Team episode from 2002 ( s9e04 ) in which the priory grounds were featured.
PSA (USDA poster)
IF YOU FLY WE CAN'T
DRONES NEAR WILDFIRE ARE NOT SAFE!
Flying drones or UAS (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) within or near wildfires without permission could cause injury or death to firefighters and hamper the ability to protect lives, property, and natural cultural resources.
Fire managers may suspend aerial firefighting until unauthorized UAS leave the area, allowing wildfire to grow larger.
The signal report on this QSL card is interesting: “ur T8 sigs, QSA 5, R6.”
Is “T8” a tone report or a signal mode? (I’m guessing, perhaps, a Tone report of 8: “good tone, slight modulation?”
“QSA 5” is a “very good signal strength,.”
In this context, I’m not exactly sure what an “R 6” would equate to today, since our RST readability scale only goes up to 5 (5 being the best). Maybe this is a 6 on 1-9 scale?
Anyway, very interesting to see how the signal report was given back in 1936.
… and Fort Huachuca, Arizona, before retiring in 1956.
The ham that actually filled out, signed, and sent this QSL card (Ken) from the W6MYY station on the Presidio is still a mystery at this time.
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… According to his obituary, he joined the Army in 1929, graduated from the Cavalry School, the Command and General Staff College, the Armed Forces Staff College, and the Naval War College.
Years after this QSL card was sent from his station, Col. Mapes would serve in the Mediterranean Theatre in the Signal Corps during WWII, and during the occupation of Japan. He served in various assignments in the United States, including Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and…
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…I was able to identify the owner of the station that the sender of this card was operating from, and that the owner of that callsign also had an interesting story.
The card was sent from W6MYY - which according to a callsign list that I found online from a few years later, verifying the info on the card - was located at the Barracks, Headquarters Troop, 11th Cavalry, US Army, Presidio of Monterey, California.
The W6MYY callsign belonged to Colonel Roland H. Mapes (1910-1993).
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…this card was sent to Bill (R. W.) Johnson [W6MUR] (misspelled as R.W. Johnston in the recipient line on the card) - in San Jose, California, who is well known in #HamRadio circles for being the first to describe the famous Z-Match Circuit in his article titled, “Multiband Tuning Circuits,” in the July 1954 QST magazine. He was also active in leadership roles in many ham radio organizations from at least the 1950’s through the 1970’s.
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