Seventy years ago, the cover of the September 1946 issue of Radio Craft shows the well equipped station at W2OEC, the military recreation club station at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Since the base was the home of the Signal Corps, it understandably had a large population of hams. Indeed, since there were hams from throughout the country, there was talk of adding an award for working all ten call areas within Momnouth County, New Jersey.

There were plans to equip the station with a kilowatt on all bands below 30 MHz. Transmitters consisted of military models BC-610 and BC-339.

The accompanying article described the station’s antennas, which included a rotatable beam for 10 meters. The 80 meter antenna’s main lobe was aimed for Missouri, allowing good coverage of the entire country.

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