Don Wallace

Hoover Cup 1923

Donald Clare Wallace (born July 10, 1898 in Belview , Minnesota , † May 25, 1985 in Long Beach , California ) was an American radio pioneer.

During World War I he interrupted his studies at Hamline University and served as a radio sergeant in the United States Navy . Because he was too young, despite being nominated, he was not admitted to officer training at the United States Naval Academy . He was the chief radio operator on the George Washington when it brought President Woodrow Wilson to the Versailles Peace Conference . After the war he completed his studies in business administration . In 1923 he received an award from the Secretary of Commerce and later President Herbert Hoover as the operator of the best amateur radio station in the USA.

As a radio amateur ( amateur radio call sign W6AM), Don Wallace maintained an efficient station with numerous spacious rhombus antennas in his house on Palos Verdes from 1945 .

Don Wallace was married to Bertha Pauline, nee Lindquist. The couple had three children.

literature

Jan David Perkins: Don C. Wallace: W6AM, amateur radio's pioneer. Vestal Press, Vestal NY 1991.
Don Wallace: 1933 short-wave manual. Pacific Radio Publishing Company, San Francisco 1933.

personal data
SURNAME	Wallace, Don
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wallace, Donald Clare (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American radio pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 10, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Belview , Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH	May 25, 1985
Place of death	Long Beach , California