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OCARC History Presentation

The Story of the OCARC
A Closer Look
©2023 Corwin Miller

—//—Do not read! (aloud):
Overview of the OCARC Chronology
•September 1932: Harry A. Moore is licensed W6FUU.
•The 1933 Long Beach Earthquake
Beginning 1: The Radio Shops
•1933: “Moore Bros” radio repair shop opens and Harry Moore takes co-ownership of “Radio Den.”
•August 1933: Moore Bros’ display in window of Montgomery Ward.
•Thursday, November 16th, 1933: First OCARC Meeting
•March 15th, 1934: OCARC is ARRL affiliate.
•May 1934: The Moore Bros, and Radio Den are in business.
•September 1934: Earl K. Moore is licensed W6IGO.
•1935: Earl Moore moves to L.A.?
•April 1935: Moore Bros and Radio Den are closed.
Ending 1: Disbanded
Beginning 2:
•January 15th, 1936: First meeting, Norol Evans W6LYM, elected president.
Activity:
•1936-1937: The Santa Ana Floods
•1938: The L.A. and Orange County Flood
•1939: The Long Beach Flood
Ending 2: Suspended
•1942: Suspended for World War II
Beginning 3:
•1945: Roy Maxson elected president.
•July 17-23rd, 1953: Third National Jamboree.
Ending 3: Activities Slow
Beginning 4: “The Dog Patch”
•Fall 1954: “Orange County Radio Club” begins.
Beginning 5:
•October 22nd, 1958: Ken Kessel W6BVI as president.
Ending 4: Relicensing
•February 9th, 1959: The Orange County Radio Club ends, and
•The Orange County Amateur Radio Club is granted “W6ZE,”
•Spring 1959: Last record of “The Orange County Radio Club”
•August 4th, 1960: The OCARC is incorporated
•March 1st, 1965: Orange Section forms
•Sunday, March 3rd, 1968: Heart Fund Drive.
•1980: Red Cross O’Neill Park fire operations.
•1981: “Explorer Post,” for the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary.
•1985: health and welfare traffic after the Mexico City 8.2 magnitude earthquake.
•September 9th, 1987, 6:00pm:
Santiago Canyon Fire
until Monday, September 14th 10:00pm.
•1992: Earthquakes
-April 22nd, 1992: A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck near Joshua Tree National Monument.
-June 28th, 1992: Landers 7.4 and Big Bear 6.5 magnitude earthquakes struck.
•October 1997: The Orange fire.

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This is a presentation of the beginnings of the Orange County Amateur Radio Club in 1933, and its service to the community through 1997. New discoveries will be underlined.
•If you have any questions, please bear with me until the end of the presentation. I will answer them at that time.

Be forewarned, it’s going to be a bumpy ride...

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•What you are seeing here is a film of the aftermath of the 1933 Long Beach Earthquake, which occurred on March 10, 1933, at 5:54pm*.(1) It is 13 minutes in length, but I am only going to show the first four minutes of it.
•I will begin with a little bit about the earthquake itself, then go into the ramifications, and finally Amateur Radio involvement, including the OCARC:
•The earthquake is estimated at 6.4 on the Moment Magnitude scale.(2)
•According to the scientific account of the time, the seaward side moved 8 feet north, then came back 5-1/2 feet. However, the two motions are not possible on the fault line itself. The earthquake was at a centroidal depth of 10 km, and the ground was of a sandy consistency. Some of the cracks on the surface may have moved twice, but the fault line itself could not.(3)(4)(5)
•The right-lateral motion was about 30 inches and occurred in 11 seconds. And this data had to be taken before and after the earthquake, so it is not contested by the modern accounts.(4)(5)
•The Epicenter was about three (3) kilometers inland (the 1991 Seismological Society of America study of this earthquake placed the epicenter off the coast, however the Department of Conservation California Geological Survey has since located it inland), on the Newport-Inglewood Strike-Slip Fault between Newport Beach and Huntington Beach.(2)
(Source: https://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/earthquakes/long-beach Copyright © 2023 State of California)
[Focal mechanism: strike: 315°, dip: 80° to the northeast, rake: -170°,
rupture: (initiated near Huntington Beach-Newport Beach City boundary) extended unilaterally to the northwest to a distance of 13-16km. The centroidal depth: 10+-2km. Total source duration: 5sec. Seismic moment: 5*1025dyne-cm, corresponding to an “energy magnitude” moment magnitude of 6.4. Source radius: estimated 6.6-7.9 km corresponding to a Brune stress drop: 44-76 bars.](4)
	•	Do they lie entirely on the Pacific Plate? Yes. (R. Miller Fri, Aug. 25, 2023, 12:24pm PDT)(5)

•What you’re seeing here is the broadcast radio station KFOX 1:23-1:36, which came back on the air four (4) hours after the disaster to broadcast for the aftermath.

About the Damage:
•115 to 120 people were killed, many from falling debris as they ran out of the crumbling structures.
Many buildings of that time were made of unreinforced brick and mortar. (6)
•All of Long Beach’s 28 schools are either destroyed or severely damaged. In the hardest hit area, including Long Beach, Compton, and Huntington Park, 70 schools are completely flattened, and more than 230 school buildings are either destroyed, suffer major damage, or are judged unsafe to occupy.
(https://cal170.library.ca.gov/march-10-1933-the-children-are-spared-the-field-act-is-born/)(7)
•If the earthquake had occurred during school hours just two hours earlier than 5:54pm, you can imagine the tragedy that would have ensued.
•The damage is estimated at $40 million, $904 million in today’s dollars.(6)
•2:26 Note the reinforced concrete building sustained little to no damage. This was one exception, and it appears to be a hall of some type. 3:06-3:13
•After the earthquake, building codes were instituted for schools, titled the “Field Act,” (named after assemblyman Charles Field) and signed into law (by the California State Legislature) on April 9, 1933, just 30 days after the near tragedy.(6)
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•More than 51 Amateur Operators assisted and handled messages and communications through the disaster, including much of the four (4) hours KFOX was off the air.(8)

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•Two months after the earthquake QST Magazine publishes an article on amateur radio involvement in the disaster.
•Out of the 51 call signs in the May 1933 QST article, 2 were OCARC members. They were directly involved in the 1933 Long Beach Earthquake operations.
They are:
•Earle H. Hanson W6BQP (-dues?-no)
•Luther M. Turner W6EZY (-dues?-no) of Turner Radio Co.
Both are on the March 1959 Member Mailing List (Checked up to: Apr 15, 1984 Roster). It is a distinct possibility that these two were OCARC members before 1959, so the OCARC certainly, and quite possibly its founding, had an interest in the disaster.
	•	•Turner Radio Co. in business in 1933? Yes! Confirmed: 1933 Orange County Directory (Publication date, Jan. 30, 1933)

In May 1933 QST article on the Long Beach Earthquake (8):
"Southern California Amateurs Rise to Earthquake Emergency" by Clinton B. DeSoto:
In order of appearance:
	1.	W6AOR
	2.	W6AXT
	3.	W6FFN
	4.	W6ETV
	5.	W6CJQ
	6.	W6GSR
	7.	W6BYF
	8.	W6BVD
	9.	W6BXI
	10.	W6UY
	11.	W6BQP
	12.	W6GXS
	13.	W6BZC
	14.	W6GOY
	15.	W6GWX
	16.	W6CNE
	17.	W6EZY
	18.	W8DLD
	19.	W9FLT
	20.	W8WI
	21.	W8AOE
	22.	W1CWH
	23.	W2GO
	24.	W2HY
	25.	W9MM
	26.	W6ANN
	27.	W6GRH
	28.	W6CIZ
	29.	W7BB
	30.	W6CIU
	31.	W6HBF
	32.	W6FQY
	33.	W6FDE
	34.	W6LN
	35.	W6FYN
	36.	W6CMT
	37.	W6BTZ
	38.	W6EGJ
	39.	W6FWJ
	40.	W6AEP
	41.	W6EPW
	42.	W6AXQ
	43.	W6FEP
	44.	W6HFP
	45.	W6MK
	46.	W6DEP
	47.	W6AM
	48.	W6RO
	49.	W1KH
	50.	W9CRT
	51.	W9VS
	52.	by W1CBD Clinton B. DeSoto, Assistant to the Secretary, ARRL
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Night time time lapse photo of Fourth Street at Broadway, with Turner Radio Co. on the corner.
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There were many beginnings, and some less-defined endings...
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Beginning 1: The Radio Shops
One question that comes to mind is...
•How is the start of the Moore brothers’ radio shop connected with the start of the Orange County Amateur Radio Club in the Winter to Spring of 1933?
•The answer is: Our club history goes beyond the name. It is a continuity of members, officers, and eyewitnesses back to 1933, with Earl K. Moore W6IGO as our first president. The opening of the “Moore Bros” radio repair shop (by Earl K. and Harry A. Moore) at 206 W. 1st St., Santa Ana, CA between January 1933 and May 1934, to their closing by April 1935, sets their location in Santa Ana at this time.

•There are also signposts.
•There is an account by an employee (Eleanor Walden) of Montgomery Ward of the club display of an amateur radio station in the store window which opens in August 1933, on the corner of Fourth and Main, in Santa Ana. So the OCARC must have begun between January and August of 1933.
(Montgomery Ward 1934, 102 E. Fourth St., Santa Ana, Calif. Caption: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS, THE FIRST AMERICAN CORPORATION )
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•Thursday, November 16th, 1933: 
First OCARC Meeting, with Earl K. Moore W6IGO as president, and Tom Jentges W6BXI as secretary. The twenty charter members voted to join the A.R.R.L. and the Federation of Radio Clubs of Southern California. (Santa Ana Register, Sat, Nov 18th, 1933.)(9)
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Another question that arises is...
•Were we named “The Orange County Amateur Radio Club” from the start?
•According to the ARRL records and the Santa Ana Register, yes.
However, in the days of the Civil Defense, from Fall 1954 to Spring 1959 the official title is “The Orange County Radio Club.” More on this later. (ARRL Web Page)(10)
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A little about The Founders:
Harry A. Moore W6FUU was licensed some time between June 1931 and September 1932, about two years before Earl. However, it was Earl who became president of the OCARC. Were there hard feelings between Harry and Earl, or was Earl reaching out to Harry, who at the time, partnered with Edward Knapp to run “Radio Den,” a well-established radio store in Santa Ana?
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•According to the ARRL, The Orange County Amateur Radio Club becomes an affiliate on March 15th, 1934, while the Moore Bros. radio shop is in business.
•May 1934:
The “Moore Bros” radio repair shop is recorded in business.
•September 1934:
Earl K. Moore is licensed W6IGO by this time.
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Ending 1: The OCARC is Disbanded.
•In the Story of the OCARC from 2018, one of the questions that arose was: Since the Radio Amateur Callbooks place Earl K. Moore’s move to L.A. two years after the closing of Moore Bros. Radio Shop, is the eyewitness account in the current OCARC History that states: “Earl moved to L.A., leaving Harry to run the business” plausible?

•So what can explain the two-year delay in the Radio Amateur Callbooks? There are three possibilities:
•One is a latency due to periodicity,
•Two is the bureaucratic latency and the delay of snail-mail at the time.
•And three is the social shift in time between the announcement of Earl’s move, and the move itself.

The latter is most likely the case, and the last two both may have played a role in the discrepancy.

The eyewitness account is very likely to be accurate.

	1.	as when the data were updated on a license-renewal schedule.
	2.	The other is a bureaucratic latency, as paper records moved through the mail, through the FCC, to the Radio Amateur Callbook.

After doing a comparative analysis of my earlier data, I have found that:
•For Earl K. Moore, the conservative minimum change of address interval was one (1) year + two (2) seasons, from fall 1934 to spring 1936.
•For Harry A. Moore, the conservative minimum change of address interval was six (6) years, from fall 1946 to fall 1952.
•Since they were licensed, to the date of their SKs:
-Earl K. Moore moved at least 12 times and
-Harry A. Moore moved at least 4 times.

While this does not support the theory of latency due to periodicity between April 1935 and the Fall of 1937, I am inclined to believe the eyewitness account was accurate, and the delay in the Radio Amateur Callbooks was due to the bureaucratic latencies of the time.

•It is possible that Earl K. Moore decided to move much earlier than 1937, then Harry A. Moore closed the Moore Bros. Radio Shop almost immediately upon the announcement.
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By January 30, 1933, there are two radio repair shops, and eight radio stores in Santa Ana alone.
So the Moore Brothers’ shops had a lot of competition in the community, even before they open, and by April of 1935, Moore Bros and Radio Den are closed.

Other radio shops had difficulty, too, Foster-Barker on Fourth Street (P2568A) closes before Moore Bros, by May of 1934, after eight years in business. In that year, three radio repair shops open in Santa Ana: Howard W K, Moreland Bernard, and Moore Bros. The number of radio stores remains at eight, with four closing, and four opening.

By April 1935, Moore Bros and Radio Den are closed, there are five radio service and repair shops, and nine radio stores in Santa Ana, four more than in 1932. Clearly, radio was becoming very popular at the time.

By the fall of 1947, both Earl and Harry Moore are living in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Back to the Chronology:
(Ending 1):
•April 1935:
Moore Bros radio repair shop and Radio Den are closed by this date.

Beginning 2:
The Pre-War Club
-(The beginning copied from RF Nov. 1974: Amateur Radio News May 1937)
-As reprinted from The Amateur Radio News, May 1937:
•January 15th, 1936:
-Norol* O. Evans W6LYM, is elected president.
The first meeting is on this date, at Norol’s home on N. Hewes**.
*(”Norol” according to americanradiohistory.com and the Radio Amateur Callbook, therefore his name is misspelled in the March 1959 Roster)(11)
**(Hewes not Hughes: No Hughes in Orange County in 1936.)
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The second question that arose was the spelling of “N. Hughes” in the OCARC Historical Archives.

“H u g h e s” or “H e w e s”?:
While there is a “Hughes” “H u g h e s” street in Tustin in 1936 according to The Orange County North and South Directory, this is a misspelling also.  The “Hughes” that intersects 17th St. is the end of “Hewes Ave.” as it terminates in Tustin, south from Orange.   There was no “Hughes” in Santa Ana or the City of Orange in 1936.  There are, however a Hewes Av., a Hewes Ranch, and a Hewes Hill Rd. “H e w e s” in the cities of Orange and Santa Ana in the February 1951 Directory, and the December 1945 Directory maps.
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•By Fall 1937:
Earl K. Moore moves to L.A.

Activity:
February 6-8, 1937: A damaging flood strikes Orange County, wiping out highways, bridges, and threatening lives and homes. 
For the first time since 1916, the communities of San Juan Capistrano and San Clemente are isolated when sections of main highways were swept away by flood waters from the Trabuco and San Juan rivers. (Santa Ana Register, Monday, February 8th, 1937.)
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•Santa Ana Hams numbering 30 are praised nationally for their service in the 1936-1937 floods. Each ham radio operator was commended by name.
(Santa Ana Register, Wednesday, February 10th, 1937.)
(Newspaper article)

•We have evidence in this article of the OCARC’s involvement in communications operations for the 1936 and 1937 floods. Fourteen of the thirty are present and future OCARC members.

•Santa Ana Register, Wed, Feb 10, 1937: “Santa Ana Ham Group Praised in U.S. Records” (pdf) (30 OPs)
	1.	Tom Jentges W6ALO [W6BXI] 821 N. Olive St. (paid dues)(secretary)
	2.	Cecil F. Yates W6AVR R. 1 Box 363
	3.	Shelley Trotter W6BAM R. 1 Box 430 (paid dues)
	4.	Buton O. Baird W6CIG 316 W. Santa Clara St.
	5.	E. W. Heffner W6CNK 715 Lacy St.
	6.	John W. Hancock W6DC 831 S. Main
	7.	Rodney Engel W6EEK 912 E. Santa Clara Ave.
	8.	Lieut. Leonard E. Echols W6FXY Hdq. Co. 3rd Bn. 185th Inf. C. N. G.
	9.	A. R. Van Compernolle W6FCT 618-A N. Baker St. (paid dues)
	10.	Harold B. Smith W6HAA 1201 S. Flower St.
	11.	R. P. McGaughey W6HDF 925 S. Garnsey St.
	12.	Roy A. Cumpston W6IBN 1406 S. Garnsey
	13.	Norman H. Caldwell W6IMH 1315 Louise St.
	14.	Charles G. Blanchard W6INV 1108 French St.
	15.	C. N. Hicks W6JMA 1119 N. Lowell St.
	16.	Albert F. Hill Jr. W6JQB 826 E. Sixth St.
	17.	R. M. Kanegae W6JZD R. 4 Box 556
	18.	Donald D. Randall W6KQD 915 E. Washington St.
	19.	Ray R. Yakura W6LBU RFD 5
	20.	Thompson McNeal W6LDJ {W6IDJ} 1074 W. Fifth St. (listed as member 1939)
	21.	Tom Hudspeth W6LHN 910 S. Birch St. (listed as assistant member 1939)
	22.	Gordon R. Mills W6LNE 1115 W. Chestnut St.
	23.	John R. Schick W6LQX 1524 W. Sixth St. (listed as member 1939)
	24.	Leonard G. D. Thompson W6LSV 514 E. Washington St.
	25.	Kenneth H. Langenbeck W6LVB 1306 S. Van Ness (listed as assistant member 1939).
	26.	Cecil V. Hamilton W6MNP 1049 W. Camille
	27.	Robert E. Horseman W6MNV 2003 Greenleaf
	28.	Earle F. Kent W6MQF 1106 S. Ross St.
	29.	W. K. Howard W6MQI 912 N. Main St.
	30.	Raymond H. Bloomer W6QG 1117 W. Third St.
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•Mar 1938 (Santa Ana Register, Thursday, March 3, 1938)
Orange County’s most damaging and tragic flood came in March 1938. A hint of the possible disaster came on March 1, when weather gauges showed that 1.38 inches of rain fell in 24 hours. Flood waters were expected in the Santa Ana and San Gabriel Rivers as a result of a downpour in the mountains. ...
—//—(Santa Ana Register, Saturday, March 5, 1938)
A series of heavy rainstorms in the costal area, extending from San Diego on the south to San Luis Obispo on the north and inland to parts of the Mojave desert, produce extreme floods. These floods, which appear to have been the greatest within the last 70 years, leave 119 people dead and 2,000 homeless. It flowed as fast as 100,000 cubic feet per second, and caused damage estimated at $78,602,000.00.
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•Our late Club Historian, Bob Evans WB6IXN, said the Club was definitely involved in the March 1938 Santa Ana Flood, but we had no physical evidence of this connection. This article lists two (2) OCARC members of eight (8) amateur operators who were directly involved in communications for this flood.
•Santa Ana Register, Fri, Mar 4, 1938, p11, “Short Wave Radio Aids Flood Work” (8 amateur stations, 2 OCARC)
	1.	KGHX
	2.	Ed Heffner W6CNK
	3.	Ray Hancock W6ALK
	4.	Norol Evans W6LYM Santa Ana
	5.	Bud Whiteman W6VT
	6.	Myron Gimmell W6CMT Anaheim
	7.	E.W. Corbett W6DSN Fullerton
	8.	Tom Jentges W6BXI Santa Ana
	9.	Wendall Jones W6BYZ Garden Grove

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•Santa Ana Register, Sat, Mar 12, 1938, p3 “Naval Radio Work Praised” found regarding Amateur Radio, credit to: 4 OCARC members (in bold)(12 OPs) are commended:
	1.	Lieut. (jg) C.W. Jones
	2.	Edward Heffner KGHX
	3.	Paul T. Moses [W6MAT](paid dues) KGHX
	4.	W.E. “Bud” Whiteman chief operator KGHX
	5.	Myron J. Gemmill KGHX
	6.	Norol (“Norval”) Evans (president 1936)
	7.	Ensign Ray Hancock
	8.	Lieut. R.A. Wood [“Ray” W6HQX]
	9.	T.W. Gentges [“Tom Jentges” W6ALO W6BXI]
	10.	W.P. Corbett
	11.	M.J. Fickas
	12.	Lieut. (jg) C.M. Lindsley [Riverside](“Roverside”)

According to the current club history, the OCARC provides the only means of communication during the disaster, in cooperation with the Naval Reserve.

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•September 1939:—put in timeline—
I was starting my search for Amateur Radio involvement in the Long Beach flood of September 1939, and in the Santa Ana Register microfilm, I came across this photo and article specifically about the Orange County Amateur Radio Club. This photo was taken atop Lemon Heights during a heat wave on or before September 15. (9 OCARC members):

Santa Ana Register, Friday, September 15, 1939, p.5, “Radio Amateurs of County Construct Portable Station"
•Shelley Trotter W6BAM
•John Shick (Schick) W6LQX
•Richard Pearson W6QUQ
•S.T. McNeal W6LDJ (W6IDJ in roster)
•Robert Weitßrecht W6NRM
•Kenneth Langenbeck W6LVB
•Tom Hudspeth W6LHN
•Harold Elzig (W6YJL)
•Melvin Curry

OCARC Roster Members in Bold
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The Long Beach Flood follows soon after, on the night of September 24th-25th, 1939.
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Chronology Continued
Ending 2: Suspended for
•1942: World War II

Beginning 3:
•1945:
Roy Maxson W6DEY is elected president.
(Picture of Roy Maxson)(OCARC Archives)

•July 17-23rd, 1953:
OCARC are gate keepers for the Third National Jamboree at Irvine Ranch, CA. (certificate)(OCARC Archives)

Ending 3: Activities Slow
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Discovery of “The Orange County Radio Club”
On Saturday, May 5th, 2018, I found a link to the OCARC History in the Radio Amateur Callbook (as on archive.org)(11):
•From Fall 1954 to Spring 1959:; the following is listed:
•Orange County Radio Club, K6DKF, 12502 "Placincia," Orange.
The following document in the Archives links the Orange County Radio Club to the Orange County Amateur Radio Club:

•OCARC Timeline record:
Within: Binder Large white
Type of Event: Misc
Date Begin: Feb 9, 1959
Date End: Feb 10, 1963
Description: License: W6ZE formerly K6DKF
Location: Trustee: Roy W. Morriss 207 Oak Street, Santa Ana, CA

•OCARC Archives record:
Item Type: Document
Description: License: W6ZE formerly K6DKF; Trustee: Roy W. Morriss 207 Oak Street, Santa Ana, CA
Within: Binder Large white
Item Date: Feb 9, 1959
Date Corey Took Possession: Apr 25, 2016
(Scan of Club License)(OCARC Archives)

•In confirmation of this link, I have further discovered, from the IXN History (Bob Evans WB6IXN), that the Orange County Radio Club, K6DKF, 12502 "Placincia," (misspelled in the R.A. Callbook) Orange, (which is now The City Drive South.) is the address of the Civil Defense group, in parallel with the OCRC, by the "Dog Patch," at the Orange County Communication Center, in Orange. 
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Chronology Continued...
Beginning 4: “The Dog Patch”
•Fall 1954:
“Orange County Radio Club” K6DKF begins.
(photo)(OCARC Archives)

Beginning 5: the last beginning
•October 22nd, 1958:
Ken Kessel W6BVI as president.

Ending 4 of OCRC: Relicensing
•February 9th, 1959:
The Orange County Radio Club ends, and
The Orange County Amateur Radio Club is granted the call letters “W6ZE,” silent key Earl Griffin’s call sign, at Ted Glick K6LJA’s urging. Roy Maxson W6DEY was instrumental in getting this. Roy Morriss K6IQ announces that he is first custodian of the call on February 18th, 1959.
(photo, caption: “Civil Defense at ‘The Dog Patch’”)(OCARC Archives)
•Spring 1959:
Last record of “The Orange County Radio Club” (Radio Amateur Callbook)(11)
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•August 4th, 1960:
The OCARC is incorporated.
Lawyer Bob Neeland helps Ted Glick K6LJA and other members incorporate the Club.
(Photo: Ted Glick Caption: Photo Courtesy Santa Ana Library History Room)

•1963:
Roy Maxson W6DEY begins proceedings to get Orange its own ARRL Section.
•March 1st, 1965:
The Orange Section of the ARRL forms, distinguishing it from the San Diego Section, thanks to the hard work of Club member Roy Maxson W6DEY and others. Roy Maxson is the first Orange Section Manager (SCM).
(Picture of Roy Maxson)(OCARC Archives)

•Sunday, March 3rd, 1968:
OCARC President Dave Hollander W6COJ, other members and hams provide communications for the Heart Fund Drive. The OPs are awarded a plaque.

•1980:
Alex W6RE and others provide communications for the Red Cross during O’Neill Park fire operations.
•1981:
The club decides to sponsor an “Explorer Post,” and Lloyd Harwood WB6ULU is appointed the ARES liaison to Flotilla 24, of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary.
•1985:
Ralph “Alex” Alexander W6RE, Ted Glick K6LJA, and Bob Evans WB6IXN are involved in handling health and welfare traffic for the nuns in St. Francis Home, Santa Ana, after the Mexico City 8.2 magnitude earthquake.
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•September 9th, 1987:
Santiago Canyon Fire
An arsonist set a fire in Santiago Canyon in the Santa Ana Mountains. Our own Ralph Alexander W6RE coordinated the Red Cross communications effort, which began at 6:00pm that night. Hams numbering 39, 6 with the OCARC including Ken Konechy W6HHC, handled communications for family messaging with the 1,100 firefighters, as well as many practical, supply needs, and personnel deployment messages until Monday, September 14th 10:00pm.

•1992 Earthquakes:
April 22nd:
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck very near the OCARC April 24th, 25th, and 26th “Camp-In” site at Indian Cove Campground in Joshua Tree National Monument.
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June 28th:
On Sunday, June 28, 1992: the Landers 7.4 and Big Bear 6.5 magnitude earthquakes struck during ARRL Field Day.
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•What you’re hearing is the seismic sound of the Landers Earthquake from Parkfield Central California, During the June 28th Field Day. (12)
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•September 2-3 1997:
Elmer “Tom” Thomas WA6PFA provides Amateur TV services to the Orange Police Department EOC during the Orange fire.

And the rest, is history...

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End Credits
	•	•In closing, I would like to thank Jaime Cornejo, Cindy Gonzalez, Susan Berumen, Jill Thrasher, Lauren Healy, Melissa Lum, and Aida M. Cuevas MLIS, the archivists who provided their expert services in the research for this presentation. I would also like to offer a special thank you for Marilyn Best for providing Norol Evans’ QSL cards which we have on display on the side table. (2023)—put on cue card—
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So to recap, we now have the Club History from 1932 to 1997.
So our club has been around for many events. We have also been around Orange County at many unofficial, official and trustee addresses...
I will go back to the beginning with the Moore Bros. Radio Shop, but first, I would like to note a point rediscovered from the RF Newsletter, and now found in the Santa Ana Criss-Cross Directories.
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History of OCARC/OCRC Addresses:
•On Sunday, April 8th, 2018, I was doing an internet search for club member John Angel at “205 Oak St.,” to verify his information in the Historical Roster, and while on Archive.org, I was searching for his address on "Oak St." While there is no "205 Oak St." in Santa Ana, there was a "207 Oak St." It came up with our club QTH in the Radio Amateur Callbook from the early 60's. This is what was found(11):

•February 9th, 1959 to Fall 1961: in the Radio Amateur Callbooks:
207 Oak, Santa Ana, was the location of the OCARC. 

And,
In the Santa Ana Criss-Cross Directories for November 1959: 207 Oak St. was the address of Santa Ana Electronics, while referenced to the OCARC in the Radio Amateur Callbooks. This business is also mentioned in the September 10, 1960, OCARC RF Newsletter announcing their second anniversary, as well as in the January 1974 RF Newsletter, in “A History of the O.C.A.R.C.” by Ken Konechy W6HHC. Our Club meeting place was on the second floor of Santa Ana Electronics.

In the Orange County Directory 1933-1963:
207 Oak, Santa Ana:
Between E. Walnut and E. Pine:
-Jan. 1933: 207 Oak; (radio store)
-May 1934: 207 Oak; (radio store)
-April 1935: 207 Oak; (radio store)
-Jan. 30, 1933: 207 Oak; “Hall F C” radio service and repairing
-May 1934: 207 Oak; “Hall F C” radio service and repairing
-Apr. 1935: 207 Oak; “Hall F C” radio service and repairing
-1956: 207 Oak; Electronic Sup Corp (OC Business Directory, OC Archives)
-1958: 207 Oak; Cash-Carry Electronics 
-Nov 1959: 207 Oak; Santa Ana Electronics
-Feb. 9, 1959-Fall 1961: 207 Oak; OCARC in R.A. Callbook
-1960:	832 E. 4th St: Santa Ana Electronics; 
	(owner): John F. Angel, 
	(XYL) Lorene; 5371 S. Bridgeview, Pico Rivera
-May 1962: 207 Oak; Vacant
-1963: 207 Oak; Vacant (OC Business Directory, OC Archives)

•Club Member, John F. Angel was the owner of Santa Ana Electronics, which started on 207 Oak St. in November 1959, the QTH of the OCARC in the Radio Amateur Callbooks and the Club Archives at this time.
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Beginning with:
M•The Moore Bros at 206 West First Street in Santa Ana, was our first unofficial address in 1934.
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Then in the Radio Amateur Callbook(11):
1•The Orange County Radio Club, K6DKF, 12502 "Placincia,” in Orange, CA, (which is now The City Drive South) was our first official address.
-and that was from Fall 1954 to February 8th, 1959.
(Orange County Communication Center, 12502 Placentia Ave, Orange, known as the "Dog Patch"),:

-Fall 1954, Fall 1955, Spring 1956, Fall 1957, Summer 1958, and Spring 1959
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2•Our second address was when we changed back to the Orange County Amateur Radio Club, (W6ZE), on February 9th, 1959; the address registered by W6ZE Trustee: Roy W. Morriss, was 207 Oak Street, in Santa Ana, CA; the location of Santa Ana Electronics in 1959.
and that was up until the fall of 1961.
•The Orange County Amateur Radio Club W6ZE QTH (Searched Winter 1960-1997)
(search term "Orange County"):
•207 Oak St., Santa Ana, CA:
-Winter 1960, Spring 1961, Fall 1961
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3•PO BOX 95, Orange, CA (located on West Chapman):
-Fall 1962 to February 10th, 1963 (W6ZE License Expires).
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4•1434 S. Olive, Santa Ana, CA:
-from the summer of 1963 to the spring of 1968.
-Summer 1963, Fall 1964, Summer 1965, Spring 1966, Fall 1967, Spring 1968
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5•676 N. James St., Orange, CA:
-during the summer and winter of 1968.
-Summer 1968, Winter 1968
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6•PO BOX 95, Orange, CA 92668 (back to West Chapman): (Alex Alexander W6WRE)
-for Summer 1969
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7•2201 Eastwood St., Santa Ana, CA 92705: (Ken Konechy)
-from the fall of 1969 to the winter of 1978.
-Fall 1969, Spring 1970, Winter 1971, Fall 1971, Winter 1972, Winter 1973, Winter 1974, Winter 1975, Winter 1976, Winter 1977, Winter 1978
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Then finally,
8•Trustee Address: that of Robert Eckweiler WB6QNU/AF6C, 667 Coate Rd., Orange, CA 92669:
-From June 6th, 1978 to present day.
-(FCC License June 6, 1978 to Nov 29, 1982)
-Winter 1979, Winter 1980, Winter 1981,
-(FCC License Nov 19, 1982 to Nov 2, 1987)
Winter 1982, Winter 1983, Winter 1984, Winter 1985, Winter 1986, Winter 1987,
-(FCC License Nov 13, 1987 to Oct 6, 1997)
Winter 1988
(search term "W6ZE"):
-Winter 1989, Winter 1990
(search term "Orange Co"):
-Winter 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
-(FCC License Jul 30, 1997 to Jul 30, 2007)
-(FCC License May 31, 2007 to Jul 30, 2017)
-(FCC License Jul 11, 2017 to Jul 30, 2027)
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End Credits
•In closing, I would like to thank Bob Blankman, Dylan Almendral, and Susan Berumen, the archivists who provided their expert services in the research for this presentation in 2018.

I would also like to thank Jaime Cornejo, Cindy Gonzalez, Susan Berumen, Jill Thrasher, Lauren Healy, Melissa Lum, and Aida M. Cuevas MLIS for services in the current revision: The Story of the OCARC: A Closer Look.

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