[ARC5] radio and the Spanish Flu epidermic

[Bry Carling]

They say that there were hill billy statiopns with preachers in the mountains of East Tennessee and Western North Carolina well before KDKA sent their first official broadcast.

This is all hear-say!

Bry AF4K

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From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net <arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of Rich Post <kb8tad at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, March 9, 2020 13:33
To: Gordon White <gewhite at crosslink.net>
Cc: ARC-5 List <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [ARC5] radio and the Spanish Flu epidermic

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<mailto: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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