Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...score in an international DX contest. A week after the contest closed, a London Exchange Telegraph dispatch reported that Archduke Anton von Habsburg, brother-in-law of Rumania's King Carol, had been arrested and sent to a concentration camp because of the discovery of a "secret radio station" in his home. That news (despite prompt newspaper denials) was published in the June QST, American Radio Relay League's official publication, because Archduke Anton is OE3AH...
...political commentators covered by the survey, he said, 13% were found prejudiced. Boston stations were rated as the most biased. Specific examples of biased broadcasting, supposed to be quoted from the N. A. B. survey: 1) Commentator Boake Carter: anti-Russian treatment of the recent Russo-Japanese border battle. 2) Station KGB (San Diego): deleting anti-New Deal news. 3) Station WGAR (Cleveland): anti-New Dealism. 4) Station WGN (Chicago): distorting the facts of FORTUNE'S survey of Presidential popularity when the station's newscaster said the survey indicated waning popularity for President Roosevelt...
...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 of the vacuum tube gave amateurs their present range...
Organized in memory of Inventor Hiram Percy Maxim,* founder of the A.R.R.L. and until his death in 1936 its president, the relay spree celebrated the inauguration of service over the league's new head quarters station. At Brainard Field, Hartford's municipal airport, A.R.R.L. had had its station WIMK to cover the world until the 1936 Connecticut River Valley flood covered the station deep in mud and oil, wrecked it. Founder Maxim had died a month before the flood, was succeeded in the league's presidency by Dr. Eugene C. Woodruff, head of Pennsylvania State College...
...station has 1,000 watts, will use most U. S. amateur wave lengths (5 m., 10 m., 20 m., 40 m., 80 m., 160 rn.). Two operators will keep it on the air twelve hours a day, handle League messages, broadcast amateur news to radio "hams." There are 49,000 licensed U. S. amateur operators, an enormous reserve on which the army and navy communications people depend for personnel in case of war. Some 4,000 amateurs are in Chicago this week for the first national A.R.R.L. convention to be held in 14 years. Amateur operators range in age from...