Emergency Communications Special: EmComm from the 1950s and ’60s
Oct 01, 2022
3 minutes
BY PAUL SIGNORELLI,* WØRW
The L.A. Emergency Communications Corps Story
In the 1950s, most of the Los Angeles amateur radio emergency support was with the LA City Civil Defense / RACES. Ten meters was used for nets with base and mobile stations. The State CD, Region 9 (W6PMJ), was running nets as was the LA City CD (K6ROC). Our RACES Radio Officers were required to be employees of the city. Tim Huntley, W6LIP (SK), and Fred Crowder, W6ELC (SK), were the paid Radio Officers for LACD.
Later, around This provided an amateur VHF communications network over the 4,000-square-mile city for the first time. There were over 200 LACD members across the city.
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