[CW] Thorn Mayes, W6AX, spark gap recordings.
D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
n1ea at arrl.net
Sun Mar 22 02:17:47 EDT 2020
In 1931 Radio Amateur Callbook he's listed in Piedmont, CA.
I guess I'm confusing him with someone else.
OK reflector back to normal.
73
DR
On Sun, Mar 22, 2020, 01:31 Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> I don't think this can have been Dave. He was from San
> Francisco originally. He lived in a house on Irving Bl when I met
> him as a kid (I was the kid). He and his family moved to a house
> in Brentwood sometime around the mid 1960s and continued to live
> there until both died. Dave seemed to know everyone in early
> wireless. He and Connie were second family to me. I wish I
> remembered more of the stories he told me. Later people did oral
> histories but at the time it never occurred to me. Probably I
> thought everyone I knew would live forever.
>
> On 3/21/2020 10:21 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> > Sorry, Thorn Mayes was W6AX.
> >
> > My error. W6VX Dave Atkins was a friend of mine. He was born in
> > the same house in LA as he spent the rest of his life in.
> >
> > He held W9AX, 6BDQ, 6AX, K6BI, K2CE, W1CX and W6AX.
> >
> > 73
> >
> > DR
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 22, 2020, 01:03 Richard Knoppow
> > <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com <mailto:1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>> wrote:
> >
> > 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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