[Thursday] AMRAD

Wed Feb 28 07:39:32 MST 2024

Interestingly, I was just reading some of Alan Doulas comments last night
on Hickok tube testers.  We both agree the reverend TV-7D is basically a
lousy tube tester for matching tubes and though it makes a great tube
tester it cannot hold a candle to the Hickok 539 series. I have met Alan a
few times at the old Horse Traders in New Hampshire.

On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 8:25 AM Ken Carr <kb1awv at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dave,
>
> Great discussion! I only wish my old
> mind could remember it all.
>
> And I agree that Alan Douglas is one
> great resource for radio historians.
> I only met him once … really nice
> man.
>
> Ken
>
>
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> On Friday, February 23, 2024, 5:56 PM, David Crowell via Thursday <
> thursday at newsm.org> wrote:
>
> Rob and others,
>
> As you found out there is a lot of misinformation out there. I have been
> researching AMRAD off and on for a few years. The best information I have
> found is in "Radio Manufacturers of the 1920's", Vol 1 by Alan Douglas.
> This article runs from page 39 through 53. If you don't have this book, you
> should see if you can find one. The complete set has three volumes.
>
> JP Morgan financed AMRAD, but JP died in 1913 and his son "Jack" and
> Harold Power, JP's radio operator on his yacht ran the company, but neither
> were good business men. AMRAD's hey day was during WWI with military
> contracts, but when the war ended so did the contracts. AMRAD had a hard
> time competing with the "big" companies in the 1920's and filed for
> bankruptcy in 1925.
>
> Around then, Powel Crosley bought AMRAD mainly to get their "Neutrodyne"
> license. All Crosley had at that time was a Regenerative license. Crosley
> used the AMRAD facilities for a few years and then sold the property to
> Tufts College, the next door neighbor.
>
> AMRAD did have the first radio station - a couple of years before KDKA
> went on the air. In the Wireless Building, there is a chair that came from
> the AMRAD station next to the AMRAD equipment display.
>
> There is one big error in the online "Radiomuseum" article about AMRAD. It
> states Crosley Corp was sold to Magnavox during the Great Depression.
> Crosley Corp stayed in business until the end of WWII when Powel sold it to
> AVCO who continued using the Crosley name. There may be other errors as
> well.
>
> Today, AMRAD is the name of a company that makes motor start capacitors.
>
> Dave Crowell
> KA1EDP
>
> 4 PMer's Net, 3922 KHz at 4:00 PM
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>
>
> On Monday, February 19, 2024 at 11:41:06 AM EST, Robert Vincent via
> Thursday <thursday at newsm.org> wrote:
>
>
> I have a correction  in my statement.  The founder of AMRAD was.  Harold
> J. Power, a Tufts University graduate who was backed by J. Pierpont Morgan
> in forming AMRAD.  He is no relation to Edward R Morrow.    There was so
> much information on this I got confused and Tufts had combined some of the
> stuff together in their Archives.  I someone else will look through this to
> be sure I have not mucked it up any further. However, for sure Mr Power was
> the founder of AMRAD which manufactured the early wireless Radio we have
> here at the Museum.
> Rob. K1DFT
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