SWL Carl G. Brown 1923 Canal Zone

I am sure he is Silent Key, but have not yet found a death record for him or his wife.
Carleton G. "Carl" Brown, KZ5CG, ex-8CPT.

He is listed in the 1922 and 1923 callbooks as 8CPT at Bluff Port, New York. He went to work for the Panama Canal Zone in 1920. He continued his interest in amateur radio as a shortwave listener in the Canal Zone. On the above SWL card Carl says "Hv no transmitter hr as ND (government reservation) on transmitting in C.Z." He is listed in the Summer 1948 "Flying Horse callbook" with the call KZ5CG.

The following biographical sketch was published in the May 4, 1956 issue of the Panama Canal Review.
"With 41 years of government service, Carl G. Brown, Chief of Area Sanitation for the Health Bureau, is again this year the senior employee on the April list of anniversaries. There are few Zonians who have not seen him, dressed in khaki and wearing a sun helmet, poking around potential breeding places for mosquitoes and other pests.

He had his first Federal service as a sergeant in the United States Army Medical Corps. After five years in the service, he decided to become a civilian, and in 1920 went to work in the Board of Health Laboratory in Ancon. With the exception of a brief break in service in 1921 he has been with the Health Bureau continuously for the past 36 years.

His friends and associates are forever amazed at his long list of hobbies, all of which, they add, he does very well. He is a ham radio operator, a chess player, a musician, an amateur botanist, and a photographer of considerable ability."
--The Panama Canal Review (publication of the Panama Canal Company), May 4, 1956.

He was born October 30, 1897 in Ithaca, New York, son of Wallace E. Brown and Gertrude Virgil. Another operator, W4CG, ex-KV4BB, was using the call KZ5CG by 1961.

QSL Patrick Rigg Collection
Info courtesy of W5KNE