[ARC5] radio and the Spanish Flu epidermic

[Rich Post]

Radio receiving was illegal in the US in 1918.  All antennas were required
to be taken down when the US entered the war.  All receivers dismantled.
Receiving remained illegal until April 1919, well after Armistice and
transmitting was illegal until mid-October 1919 when the Navy finally
relented to pressure and  gave up  its total monopoly on transmitting.
However, the Navy needing future operators had begun sending code practice
to amateurs the prior month and had begun transmitting news "broadcasts"
(in code) to ships and others at that point. But NOTHING in 1918.  Mid
October was the first monthly amateur record playing on radio that would
eventually become KDKA.

Wonderful story Dave.

Rich KB8TAD

On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 7:40 AM Gordon White <gewhite at crosslink.net> wrote:

>        Just read in a newspaper that "historian Nancy Tomes has shown
> that in 1918, since radio broadcasts and newsreels were focused on war
> news..." they did not give news of the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic.
>
>      As KDKA in Pittsburgh was the first broadcast station and it began
> with results of the Cox-Harding election in November 1920, unlikely that
> there was ANY radio broadcast news of the flu in 1918.
>
>   - Gordon Eliot White
>
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