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THE AECS FIRST TEST MARCH 1936 PROVED TO BE THE FIRST REAL TEST OF THE AEC
WHEN FLOODING RAVAGED 14 STATES, LEAVING 500,000 PEOPLE HOMELESS AND 171
DEAD.  DESOTO DETAILED IT ALL IN HIS ARTICLE AMATEUR RADIO RISES TO
GREATEST EMERGENCY NEED OF ALL TIME IN THE MAY 1936 ISSUE OF QST.  THE
GROUP WHICH HAD ITS FIRST BAPTISM BY FIRE IN THIS CURRENT SITUATION, AND
WHICH SHOWED UP VERY WELL INDEED, HE WROTE, IS THE RECENTLY ORGANIZED A. R.
R. L. EMERGENCY CORPS.  THE CALL SIGNS OF 18 AEC STATIONS WERE LISTED
SEPARATELY IN THE MAGAZINE.  DESOTO FINISHED ON A PROPHETIC NOTE AMATEUR
RADIO HAS RE EMPHASIZED ITS STATUS AS AN ABSOLUTELY INDISPENSABLE FACILITY
OF MODERN CIVILIZATION, AND WE ARE NOW PROVIDED RENEWED CERTAINTY THAT THAT
STATUS WILL BE PRESERVED.  MEMBERSHIP IN THE AEC BLOSSOMED QUICKLY, AND A
SUPPORTING DIVISION WAS ESTABLISHED FOR THOSE AMATEURS WITHOUT BENEFIT OF
AN AUXILIARY POWER SOURCE.  QST EVEN REPORTED SOME AMATEUR OPINION AS TO
THE VALUE OF ESTABLISHING A PORTION OF THE 80 METER BAND AS A QRR CHANNEL.
AS 1938 BEGAN, HANDY WAS USING THE PAGES OF QST TO DISCUSS THE DEVELOPMENT
OF EMERGENCY OPERATING POLICIES AND THE APPOINTMENT OF EMERGENCY
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