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

[Kate Hutton]

My dogs, who hang out in the shack with me & are very familiar with CW,
were flipped out by the sound of spark.  One day they are going to attack
my computer speakers.

73 Kate K6HTN

On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 6:42 PM D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> 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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