Signals, Currents and Wires
The story of Mrs Mac

The story of the first Australian YL is being told on 'Hindsight' on Australian national radio.
 
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.

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 the WIA's earlier story

The 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.

73
Richard VK2SKY/Dot VK2DB Alara Editor/WIA News Crew

Source: Wireless Institute of Australia