COSTA RICA - In 1990, I wrote an article on TI4NRH, the first Latin American SWBC station (and 5th in the world) ( http://donmoore.tripod.com/central/costarica/ti4nrh.html ). It included the following lines about Charles Schroeder, the first North American to receive and QSL a Latin American SWBC station:
" ... TI4NRH wasn't noticed in the U.S. until the October, 1928 issue of Radio News, when Charles Schroeder of Philadelphia mentioned hearing but not being able to identify a Costa Rican station. By this time, Don Amando had changed frequency from 39 meters to 30 meters. North American DXers began looking for the station, and by December, 1928, he was flooded with reports. Schroeder had soon identified the station and sent the first reception report from the United States. In appreciation, Don Amando had a chair of Costa Rican tropical woods made for him. The chair was made of disassembled pieces for easy shipping with written instructions for their assembly, a rare practice in those days. Shipped by sea mail, the chair arrived in just 12 days according to Schroeder! ..." So, the first US SWBC QSL from Latin America didn't come with a pennant, it came with a chair. And, it turns out that this chair still exists. Charles Schroeder passed away rather young in 1956. However, the family has kept the chair and I recently heard from his daughter, who came across my article. She sent me some photos, which can be seen at the Costa Rican graphics section of my website - http://patepluma.sphosting.com/ticogrph.htm . Don Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don Moore --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair Radio & Latin American website: http://donmoore.tripod.com Highly Recommended: www.commondreams.org & www.tompaine.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
