Last month we looked at Marconi and his pioneering work in the advancement of wireless communications. In the early days of radio, prior to government regulation, anyone with the knowledge could build a transmitter and go on the air. Even after the first attempts at regulation, one could still do this, the only rules being a mandate to yield to commercial traffic and to remain silent for a five minute period at the top of the hour to allow for distress traffic from ships at sea. In the days before what we now think of as “broadcasting,” commercial traffic was considered to be the handling of messages between ship and shore stations, or between areas not connected with wires, such as overseas. Everyone else was considered an “amateur,” even if they were a professor at a university, or an engineer trying to develop a new system. World War I brought further regulations prompted by the military, who realized the potential for this new form of communication. Eventually, licensing became the norm, with three types of licenses issued: commercial, for handling messages for hire, experimental, for research and development, and amateur, for others who wished to explore the art as a hobby or outside of what was specified by the other classes of licenses. Still, there were few limits as to what frequency to us…..READ MORE
Galileo satellite recovered and transmitting navigation signals Good News from ESA Article: Read more
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Hexbeam Finally and after many prayers and here the new Hexbeam with 40 meter band including 7 Bands! Note: The 40 meter band is not directional like... Read more
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On May 23, the US House version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that included the language of the Amateur Radio Parity Act (HR 555) c... Read more
To mark the June 15 centenary of the first live UK entertainment broadcast by Dame Nellie Melba, one of the Essex Steamettes created a Morse Code tran... Read more
The transceiver is built on the scheme with a single superheterodyne frequency conversion and four Crystal quartz filter. The device is controlled by... Read more
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