"WAS" Worked all states.

I have all the confirmed contacts (QSL Cards) for the WAS Award, however, I will not send them in. 49 of the states I worked and confirmed on 6 meter SSB.

I worked and confirmed Hawaii on 10 meters SSB.

I am cautious about sending my cards because I worry about them becoming lost.

Some of the hams I have contacted and sent and received a QSL card are now "Silent Keys"

I cherish all the cards which I have.

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Pictures of my "2 Meter Homebrew "H Array" beam.

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1. "We The People" WAS. ARRL. - View "We The People Award" 2. 50 Mhz CQ Century Club, 6 Meters. - View 50Mhz CQ. Century Club Award 6 Meter" Award 3. "SMIRK" Six Meter International Radio Klub, No. 4690 - View 6 Meter Smirk Award 4. Old Timer's Club. ARRL - View Old Timers Club Certificate 5. Rag Chewer's Club. ARRL - View Rag Chewer's Certificate 6. Breakfast Club. No. 1790 - View Breakfast Club Certificate 7. GraveYard Net - View GraveYard Net Certificate 8. 10-X. International Net. Ten Meters. No. 41040 - View Ten-Ten Certificate 9. The Meadowlands Amateur Radio Assn. - SS 297 Ling Submarine - 6 meters. - ....View SS Ling Syubmarine Certificate 10. Ten American Districts. No. 3935. - View Ten American Districts Certificate 11. Collins Collector Association No. 02-11402. 12. Choose here to see all my QSL Cards for Worked All New Jersey Countues on 6 meters 13. View my "Volunteer Examiner's Certificate" issued by the American Radio Relay League For License Examinations for Amaterur Radio. -

In the mid 1980s, I formed: "The Six Meter Severe Weather Net" which covered 7 states and 150 members. This net would meet on Sunday mornings at 9am on 50.150 mhz SSB. I would act as net control & operate the net from my home. We would usually have between 25 and 30 six meter stations checking in from, Pa. NJ. NY. MD. DE. CT. & MA.

The net ran in support to The National Weather Service, which at that time was located at the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, now Lehigh Valley International Airport Allentown, Pa. USA. The National Weather Service is no longer located at the LVIA, Allentown. Pa. USA.

I installed a 6 Meter SSB station at the National Weather Service Office in Allentown, Pa. The station consisted of: A 10 watt SSB transceiver, a homebrew 6 element 6 meter beam on a 20 ft. boom which I built and mounted on the roof of the weather office at the ABE Airport.

During times of inclement weather, the net would be activated.

If I was not on duty at the Weather Office, a member of the "Six Meter Weather Severe Weather Net" would come in to the office and operate the 6 meter station which I installed.

This "Six Meter Severe Weather Net" would relay weather messages directy to the National Wearther Service at the Allentown-Bethlehem-Airport, via 6 Meter SSB.

"The Six Meter Severe Weather Net" ran for about 5 years.

I issued some 150 "Six Meter Severe Weather Net" certicifates, letters of appreciation and raingauges from the National Weather Service Office which was then located at the ABE Airport to all of its members.

Choose here to view certificates.

Every three months I would write a "Six Meter Severe Weather Net" Newsletter and send it to each member. The "Newsletter" would include information about the net and its members.

During a severe winter storm, I was on duty at the weather office and one of the net members activated the "Six Meter Severe Weather Net".

He acted as new control and operated the net from his home for many hours relaying information to the weather office from other net members.

He later received an award & a letter of appreciatiion from me and the National Weather Service Office, at Allentown, Pa. for a job well done.

Every so often I talk to a station that belonged to this severe weather net, and they tell me they still have their certificate.

Read an article that appeared in "The Morning Call" newspaper April 17, 1983 about the "6 Meter Severe Weather Net"

I don't remember which newspaper this article appeared in about the: "6 Meter Severe Weather Net" July 5, 1983. Amateur radio operators from a five-state area who are part of the National Weather Service "Severe Weather Service Network" will hold their first annual meet at Beltzville State Park this Sunday. Meteorologist Charles Giannetta founder of the early-warning newtork said is is the first time most of the operators will meet each other personally, although they have worked together numerous times on the six-meter band. Giannetta a veteran weather forecasted and radio operator, resides in Bath and is assigned to the weather station at the ABE Airport in Allentown. Operators interested in joining the network can visit with the group in the picnic area at the park, from early Sunday morning until dusk. The network is comprised of about 100 operators and is activated when severe weather strikes. Operators feed vital information to the weather service enabling warnings and other developments to be swiftly dispacted to stations other than Allentown.

This article is used on my web site with the permission of The Morning Call Inc., Allentown, Pa.

"The Morning Call Inc., Copyright 2002" This article appeared in the Morning Call Newspaper, Allentown, Pa. Oct. 21, 1983 Date: October 21, 1983 MONROE MAN'S STORM WORK BRINGS REWARD. During the Northeast's worst snowstorm of the century last February, Wayne H. Comstock of Saylorsburg spent 12 hours on the radio with his fellow amateur radio operators, gathering weather information to pass on to the weather service. Usually it was the job of Charles Giannetta to activate and run the 100-man severe weather net, but the National Weather Service specialist had his hands full at his office at Allentown-Bethlehem- Easton Airport. Comstock's effort that night are just one example of his hard work and service to the year-old organization established to act as extra eyes and ears for the weather service, Giannetta Said. In recognition of his contribution, the National Weather Service at A-B-E will honor Comstock at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 1 at a meeting of the Delaware Lehigh Amateur Radio Club. It's the first such award from the weather service for a member of the "six-meter severe weather net" since it was organized by Giannetta " to support the weather service in times of severe weather" "Wayne has put is so much time on his own without any hesitation Giannetta said. Giannetta is the only weather service specialist among the volunteer amateur radio operators who communicate weather findings over the six- meter band. The group's members come primarily from eastern Pennsylvania and northwestern and central New Jersey. When Giannetta's backyard antenna blew down and cut him off the airwaves in April, Comstock took over, Giannetta Said. When Giannetta was in the hospital this summer, it was Comstock who kept the net operating. One Sunday a months, when Giannetta is on duty at A-B-E, Comstock runs the net's Sunday morning check-in. Comstock will receive a plaque and letter of appreciation from Steve Porter, official in charge at the A-B-E weather service office, at the meeting in Gracedale's Gracestone building, Nazareth.

**Clubs Which I am A Member**

"DLARC" The Delaware-Lehigh Amateur Radio Club, Bethlehem, Pa.

"LVCG" Lehigh Valley Computer Club, Allentown, Pa.

"SMIRK" Six Meter International Radio Klub.

"GraveYard Net"

"Breakfast Club"

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**Places I Have Contacted**

Have 85 countries worked on 6 meters, and shouted at many more!

Have 49 states worked and confirmed on 6 meters SSB, which includes Alaska. I Never heard Hawaii. Some Day!!

Have over 250 countries worked on High Fq. Called many more.

Worked on 6 meters SSB: North America: South America: Europe: Africa: Central America:

Worked and confirmed "All New Jersery Counties" on SSB.

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**Some Locations I Have Contacted**

On 10 meters: "Tasmania"

On 15 meters: "Jakarta Indonesia"

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**My Farthest 6 Meter Mobile Contact on SSB**

In the mid 60s, I ran 6 meter mobile with a Swan 250, 1/2 wave verticle antenna and had a contact to a station in California, USA.

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* * Pictures Of Antennas I Have Constructed * * 1. Pictures Of My Six & Two Meter "H Array" Antennas 2. Picture Of My Tribander, & My Homebrew 10 Meter Vertical Near The Car

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