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296 Radio Broadcastof course radio was a very important part of California. These feats aroused such interestthe equipment and the operators had to be of in view of the low power and short wavelengthsterling worth. Lieutenant Harry Sadenwater,a Radio Club member, was chosen to prominent men as Professor M. I.used (i.ie., K. W., 215 meters), that suchPupinoperate the set on the NC ofi.Unfortunately, Columbia University and David Sarnoff,this ship was forced to the water within twenty General Manager of the Radio Corporation,miles of the Azores and it was due to the went to Greenwich to visit the station.valiant efforts of Lieutenant Sadenwater that By this time the number of amateur stationsthe storm-tossed crew were finally rescued by a had increased to a tremendous extent, anddestroyer which responded to his calls after with broadcasting just about beginning, communicationwas becoming almost impossible.some fifteen hours of gruelling work.When, in 1921, the American Radio Relay The Radio Club investigated the situationLeague instituted its amateur transatlantic and found that most of the interference wastests, the Radio Club of America built a caused by spark and interrupted continuousspecial continuous-wave transmitting station wave transmitters. It therefore undertook aat Greenwich, Conn, and succeeded in winning vigorous campaign of advice and suggestion,the prize offered by Mr. Burnham, of England, through papers presented before the membership,to educate the amateur in the whys andnot only succeeded in transmitting audible wherefores of pure continuous-wave transmis-for the best station in the test. This stationsignals to Paul Godley, also a member of this sion and its many advantages over the olderclub, in Scotland, but was heard in Germany, forms. The campaign proved successful and isItaly, and France. It also broke all records bystill in progress.sending a complete 2-word message to Scotland1 It was at one of these meetings in 1922 thatand later sent three complete messages direct E. H. Armstrong startled the radio fraternityto Avalon, Catalina Islands, off the coast of by producing a sufficient volume of musicTHIS IS FRANK KING S STATION, FK, NOW NOTHING BUT A MEMORY OF PAST GLORYOld-timers will recognize several antiques, including a variable condenser, loose coupler,crystal and electrolytic detectors, and that king of QRM the m-inch spark coil