[ARC5] radio and the Spanish Flu epidermic

[JAMES FALLS]

Those nested cones were the coupling system for the antenna, If I recall correctly. They used to have this on display at either the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, or at Foothill Junior College north of San Jose on the San Francisco peninsula. 

The California Historical Radio Society (CHRS) most likely is either curating this gear or has a full history somewhere. 

Jim Falls K6FWT 

> On Mar 14, 2020, at 16:51, J Mcvey via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> I'd love to see more details on the 1912 station. What a mish-mash of equipment!
> Looks like the tank coil is under the desk, but what where those cone shaped (coils??) function?
> I don't see any VT's but they are using a carbon telephone mike, so it's not a carbon arc system.
> 
> It's all deliciously primitive - like buckboard automobiles!
> 
> On Saturday, March 14, 2020, 7:39:51 PM EDT, Scott Robinson <spr at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *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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