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Strays – Perspectives on Amateur Radio, 1930

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As the decade of the 1920s drew to a close, amateur radio was an internationally recognized user of the public airwaves, although the view of individual countries around the globe varied from enthusiastic support to complete prohibition. The American government was solidly among the former. Uncle Sam Loves His Hams The 1927 law provided a process for appealing decisions of the Federal Radio Commission. In one such appeal by commercial concerns seeking additional allocations, the commission wrote a lengthy response … Continue reading →

A Patriotic and Dignified Effort

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ARRL membership was free in 1915; QST would be a new and separate entity. With a mixture of enthusiastic optimism and a strong belief in the necessity to organize hams across the country, Maxim and Tuska were confident enough of the magazine’s future to risk some of their own money (mostly Maxim’s, one would think) to get it rolling. The state of the world and the country at this point made such optimism a little difficult to muster. In fact, … Continue reading →

QST at the Beginning

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The membership had long perceived the need for a regular bulletin of some kind, but the League lacked the funds needed to jump-start it. So, as before, the 46-year-old inventor and businessman Maxim teamed up with 19-year-old Trinity College student Tuska to publish the first few issues themselves. They had already funded the initial printing of the list of stations and other materials. Sometime in early December 1915, the first issue of a new “Amateur Wireless Magazine” went from the … Continue reading →

Prologue

Posted on by June 2, 2021

History has never been my best subject. But as far back as I can remember I have been interested in science. As a kid in the 1960s before computers and the Internet were available to everyone, I became intensely interested in electronics and especially amateur radio. In ways I can’t explain, communicating over thin air without wires fascinated me. Like many of my peers, my interest grew through my teen years leading me into a career in engineering. Also like … Continue reading →