Certificate of Registration - Amateur Transmitters

Issued to W6OAA on December 9, 1944

December 7, 1941, the US entered the war; hams were immediately ordered to go QRT. At the request of the ARRL, the War Emergency Radio Service (WERS) was created in June 1942. The purpose of WERS was to provide communications in connection with air raid protection, and to allow operators to continue their role in providing communications during times of natural disaster as they'd been doing as hams (WERS was not part of the amateur service, but was manned by hams; non-amateurs were permitted to serve in WERS in low level positions). WERS was administered by local CD offices; WERS licenses were issued to communities, not individuals.

This is not a WERS license. It is Certificate of Transmitter Registration associated with WERS.

Also see Special WERS Operating Permit!

From the estate of W6OAA