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They had an SO-metre band that was used for both code and voice, mostly in the Midwest on local work. The 40'metre band was used for code before the war and was a good band for night work on DX. The 20' metre band was used for both code and voice and was the daytime DX band.
A new band that the amateurs ex' pect to have released to them is 15 metres. Just what they will do with it remains to be seen, or perhaps we should say heard. The old 10-metre band is expected back. It was used mostly for voice before the war. And it was an odd band. Sometimes it would carry from New York to South Africa. At other times it could not be worked beyond Texas from Illinois.
The old 5-metre band was all phone or voice use, and the 2!/2-metre band was both code and phone. In addition to these bands they also had 154 and ^-metre bands that were not often used.
Many of the hams closed their stations and went right into uniform. The majority of them were in the draft age brackets and the army, navy, marines and coast guard grabbed them up in a jiffy. The amateurs that were left soon found their way into war work.
The radio amateurs of the United States are zoned into nine districts by the FCC. The first district is New England; the second, New York City, Long Island and part of New York State; the third is Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, District of Co
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lumbia and parts of New Jersey; the fourth includes Alabama, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Tennessee; the fifth includes Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arkansas.
The sixth district comprises California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. The seventh district includes Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. The eighth district comprises parts of New York and Pennsylvania, the lower peninsula of Michigan and the states of Ohio and West Virginia. The ninth district includes Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kentucky, Kansas, MiS' souri, Iowa, Colorado, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and the upper part of Michigan.
The radio ham had a great war job, both in the service and right here at home. As usual he did himself proud. The hams have always been able to come up with the right answers when disaster struck. During floods and hurricanes, when other means of communication were out of order, the radio ham has gone on the air and called help when it was urgently needed.