[GreenKeys] OT: Hugo Gernsback's callsign?

Richard Knoppow 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
Mon Aug 14 16:24:23 EDT 2017


    It would be interesting. I am not sure if I ever saw that he had a 
call. However, Gernsback did put a commercial radio station on the air, 
WRNY (RN for Radio News) in the mid 1920s but sold it after a few years. 
If you have read much biography of him you will know he was considered 
something of a con artist often stiffing his authors out of their fees. 
A very strange man indeed.

On 8/13/2017 6:04 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> This is my last resort...  It's said that SF editor Hugo Gernsback had a 
> callsign, but I cannot find it.  Anyone happen to know, one way or the 
> other?  (I've been compiling a list of "Notable Amateurs" for quite some 
> years, and he'd be a nice addition; preliminary version avalable at 
> www.horsfall.org/lona)
> 

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Richard Knoppow
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