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Women in amateur radio — edited Sep 5, 2026 by Unknown editor

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- **Gladys Kathleen Parkin** of California earned a commercial first-grade operator license as a
teenager in 1916, building much of her own equipment; she was widely written up in the radio press
of the day.
+ - **Eunice Randall** was announcing and working as an engineer at 1XE, the AMRAD station near
+ Boston, by about 1920, at nineteen. She built her own amateur station, held the calls 1CDP and
+ later **W1MPP**, and was among the first women in New England to hold a first-class license — an
+ announcer, an engineer and a ham at once, in the year commercial broadcasting began.
- Contemporary magazines and league rosters record women operating and building stations throughout
the 1910s and 1920s, at a time when very little else in engineering was open to them.
- Wartime demand for skilled operators and instructors drew many more women into radio work, some of
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[getting started](/wiki/getting-started), and find a local club through NARA's
[club directory](https://usnara.org/find-a-club) — clubs with an active youth or newcomer program are
the easiest places to land.
+  
+ ## Sources and further reading
+  
+ - [Distinguished Women: remembering the ladies of early radio](http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/remembering.html)
+ — biographical sketches of the earliest women in broadcasting and amateur radio.
+ - [Young Ladies' Radio League](https://www.ylrl.org/) — the league's own history, contests and
+ scholarships.
+ - [AC6V's amateur radio history](https://ac6v.com/history.php) — Rod Dinkins, AC6V (SK): a densely
+ sourced year-by-year chronology of the service.