[MCARC] Old QST mag on line

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2022 30 Mar 17:30 -0500, Mike Stillwell wrote:
> https://worldradiohistory.com/QST.htm

The scans aren't much better than the ones originally available from
ARRL on microfiche and later on CD-ROM and now to ARRL members on the
Web site (when it is back online).  Some covers have been rescanned and
are in color, so I wonder if the bulk of the images were simply donated
by ARRL.

> interesting history of broadcast stations below

https://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/roots-of-radio/the-development-of-the-directional-am-broadcast-antenna?utm_source=SmartBrief&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=0028F35E-226C-4B60-AC88-AB2831C8A639&utm_content=8E01A4B9-193C-4BAE-B25D-23D973D5E345&utm_term=5e35c2b9-3044-4235-9961-04d879406e09

The Federal Radio Commission only lasted about seven years.  It was
created in 1927 and took over the role of regulating radio from the
Department of Commerce.  The DOC had overseen the regulation of radio
and its licensing since the Radio Law of 1912 that was passed in August
1912 after the sinking of the Titanic.  The Law took effect in December
1912 and required private operators (it really wasn't known as Amateur
Radio quite yet) and private stations to be licensed.  Other licensees
were government and military stations and commercial stations that
primarily provided ship to shore and shore to ship communications.

The FRC was replaced by the FCC in 1934.  The Federal Radio Commission
was decommissioned, as it were.

You might have noticed that I noted operators and stations were licensed
separately.  It is only since the passage of legislation in 1982 that
the FCC implemented rules that eliminated much of this distinction and
callsigns are now assigned to the operator.

In looking for Ernie Wolff's licensing history and finding his original
station license in the late '20s was 9EVJ (International prefixes were
just around the corner) and then gone for a couple of years and then
back with 9GCJ (Kansas was in the ninth district then, the tenth was
created after WW 2) lends credence to what I have read that without an
actual station the callsign had to be surrendered.  Meanwhile, it is
quite likely his operator license was kept in good standing, so he could
have operated elsewhere under that station's callsign.

Some of the current Part 97 rules still reflect this historic
distinction of when apparatus was assigned the callsign instead of the
operator as it is today.

73, Nate

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