Set Another Place for Sister Margaret

摘要

According to Ken Eggert, W9M0T, then-president of the Milwaukee Radio Amateur Club, the call came from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "They need someone to act as a go-between for the Queen of Apostles Seminary in Madison and St. Anthony's in Milwaukee. Your contact in Madison, Ted, would be a priest... Father John Haas. His callsign is W9UJF." It was easy to understand why the church might want such an arrangement. After all, the year was 1953. Those were the days when AT&T was the only long-distance telephone company in the U.S. Calls to distant places were extremely expensive. Even calls between Milwaukee and Madison, if placed on a frequent basis, produced high monthly bills. A free communication link to pass messages between parties in distant cities was something out of a dream!