[Hallicrafters] Questions for OLD-timers (Hams)

[Jim Brannigan]

> I'm interested in your answers/comments on the following topics.
>
> 1.  I've read that the Post Office Technical Branch was at one time 
> (1920s, 1930s?) responsible for enforcement of amateur radio practice 
> (operating frequency, power output, etc.). Does anyone know if that was 
> the case?  The Federal Radio Commission came into being in 1927, later to 
> become the FCC in 1934.

Not in this country, see other posted answer

>
> 2.  At one time Hams were required to keep an accurate log of every 
> contact.  Was that true and is it still required but not practiced?

Yes, the requirement was deleted some 20 years ago.  Most active hams still 
maintain a paper or electronic log.

>
> 3.  In the 1940s and 1950s I think the amateur license application 
> required you to list how the station frequency was to be monitored 
> (measured).  Was that true?  When did that requirement get replaced with 
> "Operated in accordance with good engineering practice"?  I suspect most 
> operators now rely on the crystals in the transmitters or/and a crystal 
> calibrator to remain in the band.  Crystal use started in 1934.
>
The only requirement was to stay within the band(s).  A 100kc marker crystal 
was a standard station accessory.
Accurate frequency measurement was never really an amateur concern.  Precise 
frequency measurement became a necessity with the advent of VHF repeaters.

It is too bad that the League stopped selling the QST archive CD's, but the 
book "200 meters and down" is still available

Jim

> I'm trying to put together an article and the above questions/thoughts 
> have a bearing in the article content.
>
> Thanks.
> 73,  Skip W7WGM
> Spokane, WA
>
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