[Thursday] Interesting history

[Ken Carr]

I suspect the first station, located in a rented home as Len said,used all Marconi equipment.
The PJ station that was built in 1907 (the one at the museum),used equipment built by Walter Massie and his employees.All the radio equipment presently in  the station is original Massieequipment with the exception of the huge power transformerwhich is a Marconi unit. Originally it would also have been aMassie unit. Somehow, it was lost.
Most of the telegraph equipment in the station appears to bemanufactured by other businesses which had been aroundfor a long time, unlike radio which was a nine year phenomenonif we begin with Marconi’s first successes.
When PJ opened the station had a range of anout 45 miles.By the time it was closed down (about 1911), it had a standardrange of 550 miles and an occasional 1,500 miles due tovariations in propagation  Range could easily be extended along the entire east coastby way of relays between stations that were all along both coasts.



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On Monday, February 12, 2024, 5:38 AM, Vbob via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org> wrote:

Interference? The two Point Judithstations used different systems, neither of which I know enough about…What was the effective range of these stations? If they were primarily for communicating with ships at sea (or islands….) did they still need to be as close to the shore as feasible?


On Feb 12, 2024, at 1:01 AM, Chris Prata via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org> wrote:

this is awesome find!  what history...  now the hunt begins for photos of prior building. also interesting it was being moved ½ mile... I wonder why
Regards,Chris Prata

Slava Ukraini!From: Thursday <thursday-bounces at newsm.org> on behalf of Leonard Arzoomanian via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org>
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Subject: [Thursday] Interesting history Both the Providence Journal and the Woomsocket Call reported "Wireless Staion Burned" on October 26, 1907. Considering we have Station PJ, It means that there was another Station being used by the Peovidence Journal prior to 1908. Articles attached. Len  _______________________________________________
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