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Denby Dale Radio Hams Snap Up Rare Equipment:
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by W8AAZ on April 11, 2009
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So one must go to the ends of the earth to find a good deal on collectable radio gear?
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by N4EUK on April 11, 2009
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The article states that ham radio started about 1898. Seems a bit off to me.
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by K6LHA on April 11, 2009
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N4EUK posted on April 11, 2009:
"The article states that ham radio started about 1898. Seems a bit off to me."
Well, the first public demonstration of 'radio' as a communications medium was 1896, Guglielmo Marconi in Italy, Aleksandr Popov in Russia. In the USA there was no federal radio regulatory agency until 1912.
In between those two years is a gray area of professionals versus amateurs since there was no common definition, not even 'ham' at first. Popov was an academcian and didn't promote 'radio' as anything but a scientific matter. Marconi was very much the entrepreneur (all over the place) and was really driving to advance the Marconi Company in England to get a monopoly on that new thing.
Curiously, one of my former employers, RCA Corporation, was originally formed as a sort of patent controller in order to prevent the Marconi Company from creating a monopoly on radio patents in the USA.
One of the stranger things I find in early USA radio history is that the United States Navy wanted to CONTROL and regulate all USA radio back in the beginning of the previous century here. The maritime world was the first big-time radio user and the USN was ideally set up to be the Regulator of it. The USN lost out but they made a good political fight for it. You won't find much of that in ARRL history texts but other texts give it in detail. Academic interest stuff.
73, Len AF6AY
two years older than the FCC...:-)
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