Eye Bank Net Roster from the mid 60s
This is Bill K2DI. Former call K2INO/W2AIL. He first joined the net in late 1963 when he was a graduate student at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. According to Bill, their eye bank was one of the most active in terms of making eye tissue available. He later represented eye banks in Rochester and New York City, served as net control for
the "Early Section" 7am 75m net for a number of years, and was
Mildred K4JGU
Phil K4CRU
Larry W0MXT and XYL Lola
Norris W5LVC and XYL Vera
Mildred W6KHM
Bob K7UJU and Helen K7UJV
W0EYE is the official call sign of the Eye Bank Net, formally the Eye Emergency Net. The net was organized in 1962 at Iowa City by Dr. Al Braley, M.D., W0GET and Ted Hunter, W0NTI (both are Silent Keys) The first on the air meeting was on December 20th 1962. The purpose of the net is for locating and arranging for the distribution of eye tissue to be used in sight saving emergency corneal transplant operations. We handled this traffic for over thirty years, serving more than fifty hospitals across the country, with close to one hundred-fifty members. During that time we transferred 11,066 eyes. We have generated much good publicity for Ham Radio and have received many honors, including a Presidential Citation. We continue to meet out of fellowship and to help keep the tradition of Amateur Radio in public service alive. The International Eye Bank Association has asked us to continue our net, in case their newer methods of communications should ever fail. All licensed Hams are welcome to check in and join us daily EXCEPT SUNDAY at 7.293 Mhz at 7:50 CST.
Check out this video of some old Eyebank traffic
Alson Braley discusses Eye Net
Youtube video by Richard K0PIR. He tuned into the Eyebank net while heading to Orlando Hamcation. At 1.26 on the video he picked up the Wayne AD4NY closing out the net.
N1SCA tuned into the eyebank net and posted a great video.
This net was several years ago on 7.235 Mhz
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