[Boatanchors] 1937 Fall Call book
Lawrence Godek
lawrenceg94 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 21 12:53:33 EST 2022
Actually i have the 1937 and 1938 call books available if anyone is
interested in them. Neither have covers but they are both complete
otherwise as far as i can tell. These have both the USA and DX calls
that had been issued at the time. There are no W0/K0 calls as that
district had not been formed as yet.
I was looking thru the DX portion which contained the ads and see one
for what looks like the 100TH/TL tube offered by Montgomery Wards. I
thought that interesting.
Barker and Williamson, E F Johnson, PR Crystals, Utah 80 W Transmitter,
Turner mic's, Allen B Cardwell capacitors, Shure Mic's, and the RME 69
receiver were some of the featured items.
Great memories which includes all the old DX calls that have been
changed. Zanzibar was VP, Wake island was K6, Uganda was VQ5, Syria =
AR, Tanganyika, yup, that's the way they spelled it was VQ3, Tunis was
FT4 (not the digital mode either). Turkey only had one licensed call,
THA in Istanboul. Sumatra was PK4 and Southern Rhodesia was ZE1 (i have
a ZE card).
There is a nice ad on page 3 for the RCA ACR-111 Communications
receiver, full page it is.
Postal rates were 2 cents and air mail was 6 cents in the USA and
Canada. Cards were 1 cent each to US and possessions and 2 Cents to
countries taking 3 cent letter rates.
On page 10 was a listing of High Frequency Press and Wireless stations.
The listings started at 0000GMT, then the call then the freq, then the
Meteres, then the location and finally the type of transmission. Thanks
was offered to the operators of KUP, WFD, WHD, WRH and others. This is
a full page listing of stations. Two of the stations are still on the
air on Saturdays, KPH and KFS. I don't know about NSS, NPG, NPO, NAA or
NPM in Pearl harbor. I think NPG was on the east side of Oahu, at least
part of it because when i was there 30 years ago there were two
different locations with big fences and big antenna systems. I could
only identify the one on the east side with the antenna strung between
two high points on the mountain range. The one on the west side was on
flat ground. Help on this?
Ahh yes, the golden days of radio!
Larry W0OGH
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