In Seattle, for example, a man named Harris C. Hug became a key conduit for information coming out of Anchorage into the Lower 48. Hug would stay in contact with the city for sixteen hours that Good Friday night, and twenty more hours on both Sunday and Monday. After that, he kept going, passing messages from Alaska to his wife, June, who dialed more than four hundred different people around the country and read them their messages over the phone. Eventually, other ham operators in Seattle shut down their own channels and started sharing shifts at Hug’s house, to keep his hotline going.
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