QST
September 1921, twenty cents, “devoted exclusively to the wireless amateur” — printed a few months before the League’s transatlantic tests proved that a handful of hobbyists in sheds could be heard in Europe.
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Aerials, tubes and the everyday miracle of hearing someone far away.
Radio News and The Short-Wave
“Short Waves Circle the Globe” — a polar map with Byrd’s Antarctic expedition ship on it and a seaplane over the pole. In July 1934 you could sit in a chair in Ohio and listen to the bottom of the world.
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Wayne Green’s ham magazine, June 1962, forty cents: twenty-seven feature articles, a special VHF section, and a two-metre transmitter “with a commercial appearance” that you build yourself. It is free to read here because his family said so, in writing.
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The Amateur Number, November 1923 — one man alone at a bench of glowing valves, and inside the Reinartz circuit written up by Reinartz himself. Over 245,000 copies of this issue were printed and posted.
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July 1929: a man at a workbench with a wall of blueprints behind him, quietly getting on with it. Gernsback editing again, and radio finally old enough to have a service trade.
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Gernsback’s first magazine, eleven years before Amazing Stories: aerial masts and glowing towers on the cover, and inside, instructions. Ten cents to be told you could build the future in the garage.
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The amateurs’ own magazine, March 1929, twenty-five cents: “Superb Short-Wave ’Phone Reception”, and an all-purpose superheterodyne you are plainly expected to go and build this weekend.
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December 1924, and the cover is Santa Claus flying a biplane through the snow with an aerial strung between the wings. Radio was three years old and already everybody’s favourite miracle.
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Gernsback editing, April 1924: “THE RADIO DOCTOR — Maybe!”, a whole family crowded round the set in the front room, and over two hundred illustrations of how the thing actually works.
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reading on OSSmile · scan courtesy of the Internet Archive
