Radio Broadcast - 1923, August - 86 Pages, 8.5 ... - VacuumTubeEra

RadioBroadcastTHE RECEIVERAT 2 PMNot the time of day butthe call letters of the stationowned by JohnGrinan and Adolph Faraon.Amplifiers were almostunknown when thisstation, in New York,heard the "Coast," andthe two tubes were bothused as detectors, withindividual controlsto guide them. But the results proved successfulin some cases, where the frequency of the transmitterhappened by chance to be within the range ofthe receiver, or someone had gained expert knowledgefrom the operators at Manhattan Beach or theWaldorf Astoria where the main commercial landstations were located. With the crude apparatusand the embryo knowledge available, it was reallyremarkable that those boys could communicate atall, but almost any night one could hear messagesbeing exchanged between stations in New York Citycovering distances of approximately a mile or two.At that time there were perhaps a handful of theseamateurs in New York City, but they grew rapidly innumbers and by 1909 they had already organized intothe "Junior Wireless Club Limited." This organization,which was really the first of its kind, held regularmonthly meetings at the Hotel Ansonia where thePresident, W. E. D. Stokes, Jr., was living at thattime. The original membership consisted of elevenmen who, it may be said, were the founders andcharter members of the Radio Club of America:W. E. D. Stokes, Jr., George Eltz, Jr., FaitouteMunn, Ernest Amy, Frank King, Graham Lowe,Frank Whitehouse, Lyman Butler, and George E.Burghard. These young boys were the leaders ofamateur radio at that time and soon drew all thelive operators into their organization.2 PM S TRANSMITTERThis was the first amateur stationto transmit across the continentIn 1910, under the auspices of the RadioClub, the father of all radio call-books wasborn. It consisted of a single mimeographedsheet with some thirty-odd names.Later this was increased to two sheets,then four blue printed sheets, and so on untilthe task became too ponderous and hadto be undertaken by real publishers.