Thanks John - this is a great start. Maybe I can find some time to
start compiling some of this information, then we can ask folks for
their personal anecdotes, photos, etc. This could be a fun project and
a useful history lesson. I'll keep you posted.
Jim
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From: John Callarman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Friday, March 9, 2007 11:33 am
Subject: [IRCA] Fw: (was: New MW QSL) Ernest R. Cooper? Part 3
To: IRCA IRCA@hard-core-dx.com
Thus endeth the marathon.
John Callarman, KA9SPA, Family Genealogist, Retired Newspaper
Editor, DX-oyente, Krum TX (AKA Qal R. Mann, Krumudgeon)
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Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] (was: New MW QSL) Ernest R. Cooper?
Jim Pogue wrote: Gee John, it sure would be great if someone
(hint, hint) could begin compiling some of these great stories and
biographies.
There are some other names I would add to Harry Helms list of, not
necessarily fathers of DX but those who have helped, in Harry's
words, create today's DX hobby.
Bob Cooper, no relation to Dick or Ernie, is the TV-FM DX guru.
Cooper founded the American Ionospheric Propagation Association
(which later became the Worldwide Television FM-TV DX Assocation)
in 1954, and in
1960, he established DXing Horizons Magazine, which was for a time
the home of Ken Boord's SWBC work. Cooper was a pioneer in the
cable TV industry, which started as a means of importing signals
from distant on-air TV stations into remote, otherwise unserved
areas. I recall that one of Cooper's DXing Horizons editors was
Glen Kippel, a Colorado broadcaster and engineer whom I convinced
the manager of KTUE, Tulia, Texas, to hire. Later Glen worked at
KIXZ in Amarillo with two other fellow NRC'ers, John Tudenham
and Jerry Hickman.
Another DXing Horizons columnist was Bruce Elving, whose FM Atlas
is the FM equivalent of the NRC Log. Elving is another who
deserves to be on the list of those who are responsible for
helping to create today's DX hobby. I first met Bruce at the
NRC's 1991 Omaha convention, where he was invited to speak about
FM DX, and again at the 2002 WTFDA convention in Yukon, Oklahoma.
His monthly newsletter is one of the mainstays of available
information on the FM end of the broadcast industry.
Chip Kelly, a Dallas area resident, founded 10watts, which
Scott Fybush now operates since it has become an arm of Clear
Channel's M Street Journal. I enjoyed photographing a historic
first meeting of Fybush and Kelly in the DFW area in 2002 during
a tower-hunting expedition. Fybush's Tower of the Week website is
one of the fun stops on my Internet favorite tab. The information
source Kelly invented and Fybush now oversees put both of these
gentlemen on my list of current hobby stalwarts.
John Bryant, retired architecture department professor at Oklahoma
State, compiler of an updated list of Japanese BCB stations,
author of a history of Zenith radios, one of today's top BCB
antenna researchers and DXpedition users, and one of five
founders of Corazon-DX, a website that deals with Mexican AM
stations, goes on my list.
So does Jerry Berg, a Connecticut attorney, who, with Don Jensen,
kept up the Numero Uno mailing list up until a couple of years
ago, and who has established a mechanism for preserving historic
verifications, deserves mention.
So do Wayne Heinen, who so capably compiles and edits the NRC Log;
Fred Vobbe, who for a couple of decades has made the hobby
available to the visually handicapped via NRC's monthly DX Audio
Service tapes; Paul Swearingen, who has set a longevity record as
publisher of NRC's DX News (however galling that may be to some
on this list); and Kevin Redding, who spends many hours making
this valuable information source available to the hobby, also are
on my list of DX Hobby Heroes.
It's been a labor of love on the part of everyone Harry and I have
mentioned in this thread and I hope, despite what Harry refers to
as some very bad blood between some of the names on his list of
nine, I hope that today, no blood will either boil or flow! (Qal
R. Mann, Krumudgeon and hysterical historian, ABDX via DXLD)
John wrote-- ``The late Carleton Lord, in a treatise he did for
the NRC book, noted that Radio Golf, an invention of Frank H.
Jones, owner of a station in Cuba, was introduced in the Aug. 5,
1922 edition of Radio Broadcasting News.``
Ah yes, Frank Jones. Back then, Cuba was not that Communist
country where Fidel Castro lives. In fact, many silent films
were shot in Havana and wealthy businesspeople like Mr Jones set
up radio stations there -- his was in a small town
