New Site

May 18, 2013 7:00 AM | | Featured

Well, it’s about time I re-launched my web site. It’s been a few years, but I decided this morning that today is the day.

So what is my site about? Anything and everything — from amateur radio to stupid YouTube videos. Let me warn you now though, you will most likely come across something(s) that offend you. Deal with it.

Thanks for visiting

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Amateur Radio Field Day 1946

May 18, 2013 8:02 AM |

Photos from Amateur Radio Field Day – June 1946.

Briefly, here are a few other things that happened that year:

  • First meeting of the United Nations
  • 14-Meter high tsunami hits Hawaii’s big island
  • 6 tried unsuccessfully to escape Alcatraz
  • First V-2 rocket launched from White Sands Missile Range
  • Operation Crossroads (series of nuclear weapon tests at Bikini Atoll)
  • Last mass lynching in the United States
  • Nazi War criminals of Nuremberg Trials hung
  • Republicans elected majorities in House and Senate
  • Pres. Harry Truman officially ends hostilities in WWII
  • TTE (later know as Sony) is founded with 20 employees
  • The first Tupperware is sold in stores
  • San Francisco 49ers football team formed
  • Bikinis go on sale in Paris, France
  • 18th Academy Awards
  • Ben Hogan won the PGA Championship

Now the good stuff…

Photos taken by Walter B. Lane. © Time, Inc

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