Very true! Even DeForest is guilty of it. He did NOT invent the audion vacuum tube as he was largely credited for, he took someone elses idea and ran with it. CRAIG
-- Curt Phillips W4CP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: First of all, this celebrates the anniversary of the first broadcasting licensed by the government. If the government didnt approve it, it didnt happen. :-) The scofflaws you mention don't count. And just because the government hadn't set forth any regulations at the time of their actions doesn't let them off the hook. They should have known to have waited for governmental regulations and approval. The government has broad powers in the ways of radio. Just like at the AM day timer where I work on weekends, someone asked how we determined the sun-up and sun-down times. I told them that the FCC has an official sunrise and sunset time for our location; the sun rises and sets when the FCC says it does. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> But as an engineer, I am accustomed to the majority of credit going to the wrong person anyway, so the possibility of this occurring in this instance didn't really ring any alarms with me. Everyone thinks of Steve Jobs with Apple Computer, but if co-founder Steve Wozniack hadnt come up with a cost effective design there would have been no Apple II, no Apple Computer and Steve Jobs would be peddling Snapple in the Bay area. Most non-PR generated reports indicate that Paul Allen did the yeoman's work of early programming with Microsoft, but Bill Gates is the face man. Fortunately for them, both Allen and Woz raked in millions of dollars (if not so much the credit) for their work. In you own book on the TransOceanic, you talk of most of the credit going to the marketing people, while the people who developed the marvelous technology it used got second billing, if that. The technical guys always get overshadowed by the marketing folks. So Im accustomed to the wrong people getting the lions share of credit. As it is, as it was, as it shall be. 73,Curt Curt Phillips, CEM CMVP W4CP ex-KD4YU; WB4LHI ARRL Life; QCWA; SKCC; NASWA Tar Heel Scanner/SWL Group WMPM AM1270- Coffeetime Sat. Mornings Raleigh, NC USA w4cp<at>arrl.net-- "Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity." Thus spake Lazarus Long in Time Enough for Love by Robert Heinlein. Harold Cones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:But Curt, what about Charles "Doc" Herrold who was broadcasting regular, scheduled programs of music and talk in San Jose in 1910? His wife, Sybil claimed to be the first female DJ in 1913. His station morphed into KQW and eventually KCBS. Or the Physics Department of Iowa State University that carried on regular broadcasting in 1913, even broadcasting from the Iowa State Fair in 1915? Their station eventually became WOI. Or the University of Wisconsin station in 1917 that became WHA? I think the difference is that KDKA had one Hell of a PR man working for them. As I have researched radio history I have found hundreds of instances like this one. I don't think it was KDKA, but, ain't we glad somebody did it? By the way, I am just having fun here, not giving Curt a hard time (it is always hard to tell in email contacts). Radio historians have been debating this issue almost as long as there has been radio. Harold Curt Phillips W4CP wrote: > from 440.com > RADIO DAY 10/27/07 > > 100-watt KDKA atop the Westinghouse factory in Pittsburgh > Marconi, Fessenden, > and De Forest were the catalysts. However, it was an engineer for > Westinghouse Electric who, in 1916, was broadcasting music from his > garage (in Wilkinsburg, PA, a suburb of Pittsburgh) over a wireless > (amateur radio station 8XK) who really got the whole thing started. A > newspaper article about the broadcasts caused such interest that the > head honchos at Westinghouse decided to build a real radio station. > > > It took until this day in 1920 for the Westinghouse radio station to > receive a license to broadcast. The license for KDKA, Pittsburgh > came from the U.S. Department > of Commerce. Although the license was officially issued on this day, > KDKA did not start their broadcast operations for a week (they had to > wait until the license was posted in the station). On November 2, > 1920, the station aired the returns of the Harding/Cox election ... > the first radio programming to reach an audience of any size ... > approximately 1,000 people. > > And so we salute this day as the official birthday of mass-appeal radio. > > More KDKA info: > http://www.hammondmuseumofradio.org/kdka.html > > > Curt Phillips, CEM > W4CP ex-KD4YU; WB4LHI > ARRL Life; QCWA; SKCC; NASWA > Tar Heel Scanner/SWL Group > WMPM AM1270- Coffeetime Sat. Mornings > Raleigh, NC > w4cparrl.net > -- > Success is never final, failure is never fatal, courage is all that > matters. -Winston Churchill > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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