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The story of the first Australian YL is being told on Hindsight on Radio National
Signals, currents, and wires: the story of Mrs Mac
The little known story of Florence Violet McKenzie, affectionately known as
Mrs Mac. She was the first qualified female electrical engineer in Australia,
the doyenne of the newfangled wireless radio, and responsible for training scores
of wartime navy personnel -- men and women -- in morse code.
Mrs Mac also propounded the power of electricity to help liberate women from the
drudgery of domesticity.
Thursday 20 March, 1pm
The reporter/producer of Hindsight, Catherine Freyne talked to Christine VK5CTY
over the phone, interviewed Dot VK2DB at the Wyong Field Day and received much
information from alara AND wia News Broadcast listeners after our earlier story
Program synopsis is at:
www.abc.net.au/rn/hindsight/stories/2008/2189785.htm
The audio can be downloaded from
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/current/audioonly/hht_20080316.mp3
It's a 25 megabyte MP3 audio file.
Go to home page of ABC Radio National's "Hindsight" program,
www.abc.net.au/rn/hindsight/
Scroll down to the program date (Sunday 16 March 2008), and there it is.
Or, click the "Search Hindsight" button, and enter the name of the program:
"Signals, currents, and wires: the untold story of Florence Violet McKenzie", or
just "Florence".
The program is on RF Thursday at 1pm.
(Richard VK2SKY/Dot VK2DB Alara Editor/WIA News Crew)
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