I1MQ 1946 Italy

The second YL ham operator in Italy was Ada Garibaldi I1MQ. I1MQ was her father's call, which she also used. Her father was with the Italian Navy, and taught her morse code when she was a child. She was licensed in 1937, age seventeen, and shared a QSL card with him. She was a telegraphist at Turin airport during World War II; when Italian licenses were issued again in 1950, she was given the call I1ADA. Her father died in 1965 and she obtained I1MQ again.

The first YL operator in Italy was Lolly Balboani, I1BL.

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