LONG WAVE BROADCASTING
…success in using the new higher frequencies led to the acceptance of short-wave for transoceanic communications. Refinements in audio quality meant short-wave could be used for overseas broadcasting. Several commercial…
REGUL
…on its own. A new government attempt at regulation resulted in the establishment of the Federal Radio Commission (“FRC”) in 1927. In its attempts to reestablish order in those pre-computer…
WLW COMPOSITE 2001
“WLW COMPOSITE 2001”. Released: 2020. Genre: Blues….
More on Achievements and some Predictions
MORE ON ACHIEVEMENTS AND SOME PREDICTIONS This page takes you to “milestones,” histories and stories of accomplishments as well as predictions on the future of broadcast communications. Additional pieces from…
COMBNETS
COMFREQ
Remco Electronic Transistor Radio Commercial 1950’s
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BSP
…as journals on long-distance telephony and its application in the networking of AM radio stations. The complete set of Journals is available directly at http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/ Some fascinating reading as you…
HUGO GERNSBACK EDITORIALS
…popular radio magazines in the 1920’s you watched so many of their predictions come true…sometimes in ways none would have expected. Hugo Gernsback was the first seriously-published Radio Futurist. His…
AUDIOTECH
RADIO STATION GEAR Here are more stories and photos of the equipment used in radio broadcasting and the technical issues addressed by the industry as it grew the business. That’s…
AMBAND
DEVELOPMENT OF THE AM BROADCAST BAND Few could have foreseen the appetite for radio frequencies during the 1920s. Early on, the Commerce Department made operating assignments; often ignored if inconvenient….
ERT
EARLY RADIO TECHNOLOGY A growing list of stories from the startup of “the wireless” and its progenitor, “Wired Radio.” Some were written for the “Radio Fan;” others for the “Radioists”…
SYNC
…that listeners tuned to their (common) frequency can hear the broadcast throughout the combined coverage area. Here are newspaper stories and some well-written technical articles on the state of AM…
Knowledge, Theory, Practice
…an interest in how early 20th-century communications technologies jump-started “mass communications,” as it evolved from a “one-to-one” world to today’s “all-to-all” connectivity. (JFG, we also offer a section on reference…
FM
EARLY FM PROGRESS The technology was so good it ended up coordinating lifelines, helping men on the Moon and making possible a whole new realm of communications. The technology was…
PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO ACCESS ALL THE IRCA CONVENTION PAPERS https://www.ircaonline.org/info.php?pnum=55e9dbc309e4d5 …
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