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Ham radio provided another option for getting messages out, providing you were willing to spend a couple of hours a day at the dials. The small band of ham operators in the islands handled lots of local traffic and answered calls from anyone who wanted to boast about having talked with someone in the Pacific. Here's one at work in the late 1960s, Fr. Joe Cavanagh from Pohnpei.

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Joseph Cavanagh, SJ