Thanks to volunteer ham radio operators,, GIs overseas and anxious familiesat home are inexpensively Jinked with the crackling call;

"Hello, This Is Vietnam Calling!"

4T 2 O'CLOCK on & r«cent-TJL Saturday afternoon—6a.m. Sunday, Vietnam time—a retired civil engineer namedGeorge Criteser switched ona shortwave radio transmit-ter in a shack behind his homein Carson City, Nev., adjustedthe headset over his sparsewhite hair, and began twid-dling dials.

"Alpha Charlie, this is Zulu Tan-go," he repeated several times as thestatic crackled And then subsided."Hey! Aren't any of you fellowsawake over there?"

Moment* later, n Gl operator nearDa N fin JT, 12,000 mi tea a way, an-swered loud, and clear—and soldiersand Marine^ who'd been standingin line in the*rain stepped forwardone by one to talk into the micro*phone, with Criteser relaying theirvoices and season's greeting to lovedones via A long-distance telephone op*erator in Keno. By the time he signedoff eight hours ln^*r, he had helpedhis 11,000th aerviceman in Vietnamhold a precious five-minute reunionwith home.

Crtt«*<»r, u GG-ycar-old Carson Citycouncilman and retired highway en-glneer, is one of more than a scoreof civilian shortwave hama acrossthe country who are working aroundthe clock with the Military AffiliateRadio Service (MARS). So far theyhave enabled more than 430.000 ofour fighting men in Southeast Asiato call home from overseas—a touchof humanity unparalleled in Chu hia-tory of soldiering.

MARS maintains ISmllitary broad-casting stations for homtakk Ofs InVietnam, Thailand, and Taiwan. Allmen overseas are entitled to U<JQthem. The transpacific segment ofthe call—which would ordinarilycome to a discouraging $25 (nnd beimpossible because the Army wouldn'tallow It)—is free. Stateside ham op-erators use ft special "phone patch"to feed the message directly into

tolopiione lines as collect calk chargesbased on the distance fcotweon therecipient and the ham station. This

U Family Wttkly, Otetmbtr »3,1099

SPAPFRf

By LESLIE LIEBER

usually cornea to around ID—for whatamounts to a 12,000-mile-or-morephone call I

The MARS operation is completelyvoluntary, and people like GeorgeCrlteser receive no payment, even

"for their expenses. Paul Wilson, a tvengineer, for example, spent $6,000of his own money installing a specialradio tower alongside his rig in Mem-phis, Ten n.

"When 1 began phone-patchingGIs In 1967," Critesor said, "1 hadno Lower and could pick up messagesonly at certain times u day. But ourlocal chapter of the Nevada Societyof Professional Engineers discov-ered that Uncle Sum was dismantlinga Mercury test alte on a nearbymountain that had a 65-foot radiotower. It weighed 60 tons. The Gov-ernment earmarked it for us, andwe carried it down the mountain.

"Thirty of my friends from thesociety curried the tower down themountainside piece by piece on theirbacks. We put It back together atmy house, thanks to a crane loanedto us by a construction companydown the block."

"George spends ten hours a day,seven days a week monitoring thesecnlla," saya George's wife Lee ("YL"or "young lady" in ham argot).

"We seldom go anywhere, and Ieat many meals alone. But I'm veryproud of my husband." She has rea-son to be. Letters from battlefieldcolonels and generals, nnd a framedcitation from thu 5th Special Forcesnaming him an honorary Green Beret

line the walla of his shack.MARS stateside operators have

been privy to just about every typeof conversation imaginable, They'veheard long-diiitance marriage pro-posals, a pep-talk from a woundedMarine in a field hospital to his wifewho was about to undergo an emer-gency appendectomy in a Milwaukeeoperating room, and several heart-breaking "Dear John"v calls,

San. Barry Goldwater—whosemodern station AFA7UGA in Phoe-nix is manned 24 hours a day byvolunteers nnd has handled more than15,000 calls from the jungles of Viet-nam, ships, nnd planes at sea—hashad many experiences which illus-trate qui te clearly both the devotionand often the frustrations of a MARSvolunteer.

"I've already presided over two'Dear John' phone patches and, God,they were awful," says Senator Gold-water. "It made me want to breakin and say something—ask them towait and work things out when theguy returns—but I just sat thereand threw switches.

"Aside from calls like that, I lovedoing this," he says. "But I get aspecial charge out of the fact thatthe Reds have now started to jamour phone patches. Severn! timeswe've picked up Radio Havana call-Ing Moscow on our channels, tryingto interfere. And sometimes we getnil sorts of scrambling, man-madenoises. So you can bet we're havingsome kind of effect on the Commu-nists—a mighty nice fringe benefit.

"We never identify ourselves,-butsometimes people do find out, and itdoesn't necessarily boost our ego. Notlong ago I overheard the militaryoperator in Vietnam talking to a sol-dier placing a call home.

" 'Do you know vyho we've got onthe other end of this line? BarryGoldwater, that's who!'

" 'Bnrry Goldwater? Who's he?' re-plied the soldier." '

Stateside phone patchers considerthemselves amply rewarded for theirwork by the thousands of thank-youletters they receive.

Some are radiantly happy, like thenote Criteser received from Mrs.Nancy Michaels of Pittsburgh, whosehusband's call was put through toa hospital delivery room momentsafter she had given birth to theirfirst child:

"I wont to thank you from thebottom of my heart. Al was able tolearn, two minutes after the event,that everything was fine, nnd he wasthe father of a son."

And then there are some post-scripts, like the one from Mrs. R.Edward Bova, Wayne, Mich., thatare sad nnd deeply touching:

"On Sept. 29, 1967, you relayeda call from our son Edward fromVietnam. I wrote to thank you andyou graciously answered us, As youcan see from,the enclosed clippingour son is dead. We are so gratefulto you, Mr. Criteser, for having givenus that precious lust chnnce to hearour son's voice. Please keep up themarvelous work," +

Gl'n call is relayed by hum radio operator George Criteser.

Gf in the boondocks of Vietnam talks to parents in U.S.

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