[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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