My Experiences in the Civilian Conservation Corps, and How I learned Telegraphy and Became a Radio Amateur and a
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| The Operating Desk - I am sending messages using a “bug” semi-automatic key at WUMA/WUNA, the Net Control Station at the District Headquarters at Ft. McClellan. There are two RME-69 receivers, one for the Alabama stations and the other for the Mississippi stations. The two transmitters can’t be seen as they are on the other side of the room, to my left.
After WW-II, while I was going to school in Auburn, I talked to Bob Lowrey, W4DQW, on amateur radio and we swapped war stories. He became a Colonel in the Signal Corps and had had a career in Radar. It turned out that we had a number of common friends, among them being Capt. Phillips, the Signal Officer at Ft. Barrancas and Ft. Benning, and Pappy Jones, the supervisor at WVR, Ft. McPherson, Ga., where I worked as a telegrapher in 1940/41. Pappy Jones was a well known radio amateur who wrote a monthly article named “Squinch Owl” for QST, the radio amateur magazine. Pappy had a good sense of humor, and called his always busy wife “Hurricanie”. Pappy wrote to me frequently during WW-II while I was in the U.K. After the war, he moved to California and died there. In a letter from Bob Lowrey dated 2/16/1983, he told me that Capt. Phillips had died several years before. The last letter received from Bob Lowery was in 1997, when he was 87 years old and not well. I wrote to him several times after that , but received no reply. T   he field station at Quitman, Miss. Lt. Bob Lowrey at his desk at WUMA All field stations in District D had the same equipment as at Quitman. The receiver was a Hallicrafters SX 20R receiver, and the small low power transmitter was built by our technician, Red Clearman. In 1940, after I began working at WVR in Atlanta, I bought a SX 20R receiver. I still have it in 2005, and it still works. It rests on a shelf to remind me of the good old days in amateur radio.  
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