[CW] Activity - Centennial of Amateur Radio 1908-2008

[scott mcmullen]

> We have lots of members of this group, but it seems no one posts.

> I am sure that at least one of the subscribers has a question that
> can be discussed? 

> History of radio? 

Okay, I'll take the bait. :)

Centennial of Amateur Radio 1908-2008 

According to '200 Meters and Down - The Story of Amateur Radio', 
by Clinton B. DeSoto; 

'The most significant dividing line in amateur history comes at about 
the year 1908. It was during this period that from the welter of 
experimenters, scientists, commercial engineers, inventors and would-be 
inventors hoping to establish systems of wireless or to exploit stock 
companies, all of whom combined to make the heterogeneous group whose 
border-line activities can be called either amateur or not as one 
prefers, there emerged the type of individual who constitutes the 
radio amateur as we know him today.'

Happy Centennial!
73
Scott
W5ESE



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