[QCWA] Newest to our On Line Museum

[Wally Brown]

Hi Paul- Cant help but to add my 2 cents worth to the bc "first". 
Suggest you visit "The Boston Radio Archives" on the internet, a  very
interesting 4 page article  entitled " The Rise and Fall of WGI, the
First Station in Massachusetts". It was on the campus of Tufts University
in Medford, MA , [ I then lived in West Medford] on land leased by Tufts
to the Amrad Corporation in 1917 who received the call letters of 1XE and
later WGI. I Have an interest in this because I graduated from Tufts in
1942, BSEE. The old Amrad building was then used by Tufts for some of our
EE classes especially High Voltage labs. I believe that their old antenna
tower was still standing. It also housed the college Ham station, so I
spent quite a bit of my time there. My uncle, Phil Sewall,[W1CWZ] still a
young boy, built for our family  a 2 tube bc set and I still distinctly
recall listening with my father, the Big Brother program around 1925-26
in the early evening, we had the luxury of 2 sets of earphones.
Incidently, Phil,[first licensed about 1928-20,] to whom I was very
close, passed away a few months ago.   

73,   Wally Brown,  W1KIQ [1936], W20QN [1945], W2TQ,1970, K1TQ,1978?


On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 08:21:43 -0500 "Walcott, Paul"
<PWalcott at smartbus.org> writes:
> Whether or not KDKA was the first broadcast station depends on how 
> you
> define "Broadcast Station."   
> 
> KDKA was in fact the first station to broadcast the same show on a
> regular weekly schedule, BUT 8MK in Detroit, the station which later
> became WWJ was an earlier broadcaster if you use the definition of a
> broadcaster as a station which "Broadcasts" a message to the general
> public in return for commercial revenue.
> 
> 73's,
> Paul
> WD8H
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Joseph Fenn
> Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 5:03 PM
> To: N0UF
> Cc: QCWA - Reflector
> Subject: Re: [QCWA] Newest to our On Line Museum
> 
> Hey Bob,
> Was'nt the first BC station in the US  "KDKA" in Pittsburg, Pa??
>                 Joe KH6JF
> 
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