Surfin': When "Radio" Was a Verb http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2007/10/26/1/ By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU Contributing Editor October 26, 2007
This week, the wayback machine is idling and ready to take you back to the days when radio was king. screenshot You can hear one of the oldest, if not the oldest, recorded radio transmission at Tinfoil.com, a Web site dedicated to preserving early recorded sounds. Last weeks Surfin sparked a lot of interest in old time ham radio and some readers wrote in to suggest other Web sites to check out in that regard. Scott McMullen, W5ESE, penned the following missive, You might enjoy this recording from an Edison cylinder that is possibly the oldest extant recording of a radio transmission. It's estimated (from the content) that it was made in 1910. The recording is the June 2004 Cylinder of the Month at Tinfoil.com, which is dedicated the preservation of early recorded sounds. Al Wiemann, W3CE, wondered if I had seen the four minute W2ICE and Spark Transmitters video on YouTube. I had not, and am happy to report that it is worth the watch and it includes a demo of a spark transmitter; W2ICE is the call sign of the Electronic Communication Museum Amateur Radio Club of Canandaigua, New York. Stay tuned to YouTube because Bill Howell, N5ALO, clued me into another gem -- a 10 minute short released in 1939 titled Radio Hams. This is a nostalgic look at Amateur Radio long before the War, television, home computers, video games, cell phones and moi. Check out Clayton Moore, televisions Lone Ranger, in an uncredited role as the ships radio operator. By the way, my editor thinks that the family in this film should stop calling Jimmy for dinner and let the poor kid work some DX. Until next time, keep on surfin. Editors note: Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU, once owned a car that had a spark transmitter under the hood. To communicate with Stan, send him e-mail or add comments to his blog. By the way, every installment of Surfin is indexed here, so go look it up. http://zlgr.multiply.com (raidio monitoring site plus audio clips ) http://www.worldisround.com/articles/302315/ (Litohoro) 321199/Tinos http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachgr pictures upload . on my main : www.geocities.com/zliangas -tty-px.html : test of various TTY programs -ethics.htm : greek ethics , days and institutions -frape.htm: the greek way of cofee !!! Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece greekdx @ otenet dot gr --- Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108, Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000 Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Preorder your WRTH 2007: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2007 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.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://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
