Lelia Constanța Băjenescu (/ˌbəʒɛnɛskʊ/ born 21 May 1908, Corlate, Dolj, Kingdom of Romania ― died 15 December 1980, Craiova, Dolj, Socialist Republic of Romania) was the first female amateur radio operator in Romania.[1]
Lelia Constanța Băjenescu | |
|---|---|
 Lelia Constanța Băjenescu (1933) | |
| Born | May 21, 1908 |
| Died | December 15, 1980 (aged 72) |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Known for | First female amateur radio operator in Romania |
| Spouse |
Ioan Titu Băjenescu (m. 1929) |
| Children | Titu-Marius |
| Call sign | YLCV5BI |
Biography
editBorn on May 21, 1908, in Corlate (Oltenia, Romania), daughter of Gheorghe and Smaranda Petrescu. In 1926 she passed her bacalaureat at the "Elena Cuza" high school in Craiova.
In 1929 she married Telecommunication officer Ioan Titu Băjenescu. He, being quite interested by radio technology, produced, in collaboration with dr. Alexandru Savopol of Craiova, the first Romanian amateur radio show on short waves on September 26, 1926. Together, they built the first short-wave transmission-reception radio station in Romania and laid the foundations of the CV5 radio club of Craiova in 1928.[2][3]
Lelia Băjenescu was intrigued by her husband's radio activities. With her solid education, ability able to speak German and French fluently, and well rounded culture, she quickly joined him. She learned the radio essentials and Morse alphabet by participating in the construction and commissioning of radio transmitter-receivers and mastered all of the key aspects of amateur radio. Soon she became the first female amateur radio operator of Romania, using her husband's call-sign, CV5BI. She contacted other radio amateurs from all over Europe and even Africa from 1931 to 1933.[2]
She gave birth to Titu-Marius on the 2nd of April, 1933. He would later speak about his parents in an interview and an extended CV as the intro to his life's story.[2][3]
Notes
edit- ^ Marcu, George; Ilinca, Rodica. "Enciclopedia personalităților feminine din România (Encyclopedia of female personalities from Romania)". wife.mihaimoga.com.
- ^ a b c Vasilescu, Nini (2017-11-02). "Să facem cunoştinţă cu dl. Prof. ing. Titu-Marius Băjenescu | Interviuri Nini Vasilescu". nini.qsl.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2019-01-26.
- ^ a b Băjenescu, Titu-Marius. "Extended CV of prof. Băjenescu" (PDF). Techno-Scientific Library of the Technical University of Moldova.
References
edit- George Marcu, ”Băjenescu Lelia-Constantza (Lilly)”, in Femei de seamă din România de ieri și de azi (Notable women from the Romania of yesterday and today), Ed. Meronia, Bucharest, 2017, p. 45-46, ISBN 978-606-750-022-6;
- George Marcu; Rodica Ilinca, ”Băjenescu Lelia-Constantza (Lilly)”, in Enciclopedia personalităţilor feminine din România (Encyclopedia of female personalities from Romania), Ed. Meronia, Bucharest, 2012, p. 45, ISBN 978-973-7839-77-0;