[Thursday] Connecticut Radio & Communications Museum Celebrates 100th

[Ken Carr]

  This may be interesting to listen to. You will need a shortwave radioand a decent antenna. (click on the link for details).
This is a recreation of an amateur transatlantic radio communication that took place 100 years ago. The CT crew will be using a replicaof the homebrew rig that accomplished the feat.
Recall that our government gave the High Frequency (HF) bands toamateurs because scientists said they were ‘useless’ for radiocommunication. 100 years later we are still doing it.
On a personal note I once contacted a station in France usingMorse Code. I was using a radio I built from a kit. The radioput out a 1.5 watt signal.
Those odd, often unidentifiable radios that we encounter at NEWSMare part of the history of amateur radio.
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Ken Carr
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