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January 1942 QST
 Table
of Contents
Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles
from
QST, published December 1915 - present (visit ARRL
for info). All copyrights hereby acknowledged.
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 Take a look at the list of National Company's
employee list Wishing their customers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Every
one of them is a licensed Ham radio operator. It appeared in the January 1942 issue
of ARRL's QST magazine, but was for the 1941 Christmas. National Company
was a major producer of amateur radio gear in the day. Little did they suspect when
the magazine went to print that by the time readers received it, America would be
newly engaged in World War II after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on
December 7, 1941. Many of the names would be different in1943 due to employees going
off to fight the war in the European, Pacific, and North African Theaters of Operation.
Interestingly, the American Lung Society's
Christmas Seals stamp that appears in the upper left corner is authentic and
must have been applied by humans. That means thousands of copies had to be manually
stamped before mailing. As a long-time
philatelist
(stamp-collector) myself, I have one of these 1941 Christmas Seals center blocks
(they're not worth much - none of my stamps are, unfortunately).
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from National Company
Lester Harris . . W1AOP
Alfred Zerega . . W1JMK
George Leal . . W1ARN
Robert W1lliams . . W1JOX
T. P. Leonard . . W1AUJ
Harold Fowler . . W1KBX
Herman Bradley . . W1BAQ
Robert Mugnai . . W1KLW
James A. Ciarlone . . W1BHW
Frank Lopez . . W1KPB
Dana Bacon . . W1BZR
Richard Gentry . . W1LEN
F. Hadlock . . W1CTW
John Stanley . . W1LFF
Harvey Poore . . W1DKM
Francis Waden . . W1LNV
Seth Card . . W1DRO
Richard Thurston . . W1MFZ
Gene Simms . . W1DXD
FrankJ. Nault . . W1MKC
Albert Oliver . . W1EAQ
Charles Levine . . W1MOJ
John Bartlett . . W1EU
Carl Beckman . . W1MPF
George Ringland . . W1EYZ
Edmund Ogden, Jr. . . W1MTO
Donald Hinds. . . W1FRZ
Richard Gysan . . W1MUO
Robert J. Murray . . W1FSN
Maynard Wentzel . . W1NBV
John A. Baxter . . W1HKR
George Vasil . . W1NBW
David M. Smith . . W1HOH
John M. Wondergem . . W1NDA
Vincent Messina . . W1HRW
Bruce Rich . . W1NKO
Jack Ivers . . W1HSV
William Doyle . . W1TV
Matthew Sokolowski . . W1ISR
Arthur H. Lynch . . W2DKJ
Sumner Herrick . . W1JDF
Myrl B. Patterson . . W5CI
Edmund C. Harrington . . W1JEL
Herb Becker . . W6QD
Kenneth C. Nagle . . W1JGD
John Prusak . . (licensed but no call sign)
Posted December 19, 2023
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