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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…

HUGO GERNSBACK EDITORIALS

…ideas and reflections withstood the test of time in forecasting the unknown forces that would shape the future of radio communications. Sure…he sometimes got it wrong. But he can be…

PRESS-RADIO–ASCAP

PRESS-RADIO AND ASCAP WARS There’s a lot to the story of how newspapers were threatened by radio in its first quarter-century of influence. First the issue was dilution of papers’…

Convention Paper Frame

DX-CONVENTION PAPERS To download the MP3 audio, use the function: “Save Link (or Target) As…” SLIDES may automatically download for viewing. You’re on your own trying to sync the slides…

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…

INFO CATEGORIES

INFO CATEGORIES Now we steer you to the ‘categories of interest’ that motherboard the documents and related media dating back to the birth of “The Wirelessand its progenitor, “Wired…

STADEV1930+

…time the “very latest” radio technologies and operations. See also Radio Pioneers, Development of the AM Band and Breakup of the Clears. Stories have been added as they were obtained:…

Tech Data

TECHNICAL DATA This page will be a ‘catch-all’ of technical data and reference info from my libraries….

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….

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…