[CW] Thorn Mayes, W6VX, spark gap recordings.

[Richard Knoppow]

    How interesting. My mentor and friend David Atkins was W6VX 
but told me someone else had held the call before he did. I don't 
know what year he got it (I should know). That was evidently 
Thorn Mayes.  Now, you give Mayes calls as W6AX so I wonder if VX 
is also correct or a mis type.

On 3/21/2020 6:42 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> Thorn Mayes, W6VX, spark gap recordings.
>
> Let this play through, it gets more interesting as time goes on.
> Repeat and copy the other stations on 600m.  This is how it was done
> in Spark Days!
>
> https://archive.org/download/sending_morse_code_sound_recordings/sowp_spark_tx_thorn.mp3
>
> Thorn Mayes, born April 19, 1903, graduated from the University of
> California in 1927 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He was an
> avid amateur radio operator, working W6AX, W9AX, 6BDQ, 6AX, K6BI,
> K2CE, and W1CX under the handle “Thorn.” He became interested in
> recreating the history of the three main, early, commercial wireless
> stations on the West Coast. KPH, which I think is by far the most
> important of all; KFS who was a competitor, and NPG, which is
> sometimes called the NAA of the West Coast because of the similarity
> in transmission equipment used at NPG and also at NAA.
>
> In this recording made in 1970 and 1985 we hear giants of the early
> radio days recreate the sounds and the procedures of the time when
> spark was king.  Thorn Mays, Commander Frank Johnstone and Frank
> Geisel all appear on this narrated recording.  Get out your mill and
> copy along.   Special thanks to Gregory DeMascio, sound engineer at
> KWMR, for his help with this recording.
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Richard Knoppow
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WB6KBL