Word: cq
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Calling CQ...calling CQ...CQ" can be heard nightly rolling down the dim staircase from the heights of Weld Hall. Not the police, not Admiral Byrd, but John McG. Cochrane '43, the only undergraduate who runs and operates his own transmitting station here at Harvard...
From 6 p. m. till sunrise one night last week the air waves below the commercial broadcast band crackled busily with the call "CQ Conn." For most of the 22,000 amateur radio operators enrolled in the American Radio Relay League were devoting the night to sentiment, reverting to old-time amateur relay methods for the dedi cation of the League's Maxim Memorial Station WIAW (Newington, Conn.). Al though most league members now have power enough to reach WIAW direct, they relayed their dedicatory messages through the stations of fellow members to recall early days before the development...
From Yakutsk, Siberia, his CQ (calling all stations) carried 4,837 miles to Hermosa Beach, Calif. During earlier tests from Wichita, Kans., it was heard in Honolulu, 4,226 miles away. Altering the length of the harmonically operated antenna gave his radio beam virtually any direction he chose. When the antenna trailed its rubber wind sock at full length, the signal was concentrated straight on the spot to which the plane's nose pointed, straight back in the opposite direction. This gave maximum performance down the two most desirable paths, forward to the next destination, back to the last...
...room and took over from the second assistant. The room went dark as the ship's electric power failed. With a flashlight the radio men turned on the reserve battery current. "Sparks" Rogers then sent out his station call, KGVO. He next sent his QRT "Clear the air!'' Then CQ "Attention, please!" Then "All stations please stand by!" Meanwhile the operator in a little stucco Radio Marine Station at Tuckerton, N. J. had relayed a query from a ship in the Morro Castle's neighborhood: "Was a nearby ship afire?" A pillar of flame could be seen...