9AEA 1925 Dwight, Illinois

Operator: Ludwig William Kern

Ludwig was born on 6/19/1907 and was licensed in the fall of 1925 at age 18. This QSL was sent on 9/8/1925.
Unfortunately Ludwig was killed by a train just 5 months after this QSO on 2/19/26.
He recently graduated high school and had planned to enter college in the fall “where he planned to complete his life’s work in the study of radio engineering in which he was so greatly interested”.

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