Margaret Holly Bevan is on the air every weekday morning by 6 a.m. She covers it all – weather, traffic reports, everything except politics and religion. You won’t hear Bevan chatting on your favorite radio station, but she has a world-wide audience. Bevan, whose call is N3MB, mans a ham radio network. And even though she celebrated her 100th birthday last week, she doesn’t intend to hang up her microphone any time soon.
Bevan’s friends from the Anne Arundel Radio Club hosted a birthday party Sunday to celebrate the milestone. “The radio club has been my family for years and years,” she said. She joined the club when few women were involved in ham radios…..READ MORE
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