[ARC5] radio and the Spanish Flu epidermic

[Scott Robinson]

It's well documented that a San Jose station was doing scheduled music 
and speech broadcasts in 1912. See

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Herrold>

Peace,

Scott Robinson

On 3/14/20 8:32 AM, Bry Carling wrote:
> 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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