A century ago, one of the world’s first hackers used Morse code insults to disrupt a public demo of Marconi’s wireless telegraph LATE one June afternoon in 1903 a hush fell across an expectant audience in the Royal Institution’s celebrated lecture theatre in London. Before the crowd, the physicist John Ambrose Fleming was adjusting arcane…
The station is WWJ in Detroit, a contemporary to KDKA as one of the country’s first radio stations. We are in the transmitter room in the Detroit News Building in early 1922. The broadcast studio is located in a separate room.Photo from the Detroit News Archives The rig seen beyond the operator’s desk is actually…
Amateur radio has been a part of my life for several decades, as a faithful friend and a dominant hobby. Of course, there are many other interesting things out there. But it is different from any others because it not only sharpens your technical knowledge, but also gives you many reasons to join the Amateur…
From the Discovery Channel series “Rocket Science”: Alan Bean describes the lightning strike that knocked out power on the second lunar NASA landing mission shortly after launch. (www.foolishearthling.com)
“W1Z Last Broadcasts from Historic 1921 WBZ Springfield Towers “To commemorate the 90th Anniversary of the 1921 WBZ/Westinghouse Springfield MA towers before their demolition. “Please join us on the radio, Saturday, November 5, 2011 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. EDT for the last signal to be emanating from these towers before their demise. “Special…