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Saving Communications History Before It's Gone
Since the founding of the Antique Wireless Association, the authors and historians that have written for its publications, The AWA Review, The AWA Journal and The Old Timer's Bulletin, have researched and analyzed the history of electronic communications to provide insightful historical context to the communications technologies that permeate our daily life.
In this presentation Felicia Kreuzer takes a look at the legacy of the AWA's publications and the writers and historians that produced them.
Help us preserve the history of electronic communications by becoming a member of the Antique Wireless Association at: www.antiquewireless.org/homepage/join-or-renew-membership/
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A 100 Year Old Solid-state Amp - The Brown Microphone Amplifier
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In 1923 the S. G Brown company of London introduced the "Crystavox", an all but forgotten loudspeaker with an integrated carbon microphone amplifier. This type of amplifier was invented at Bell Telephone Labs in 1904 for use in the Bell system on long distance telephone lines. Decades before the invention of the transistor and without any vacuum tubes the "Crystavox" allowed a crystal set to be...
"The Fine Things Are Always Made by Hand". The history of E.H. Scott, presented by Kent King
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The radio firm of E.H. Scott was founded in 1925 by Chicago resident Ernest H. Scott. It produced luxury radios. The company later became Scott Radio Laboratories, and went through many changes of ownership after Mr. Scott left in 1945 It was known for its elaborate, high quality radio receivers and Scott's motto was "The Fine Things Are Always Made by Hand" Help us preserve the history of elec...
The Growing Impact of Environmental Radio Noise
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The quest for low cost, high efficiency power conversion has a downside, radio frequency interference or more specifically QRM, noise from man-made sources. Broadcast engineer Steve Johnston has worked in the commercial, public and governmental broadcast sectors and has shares his insights into the forces that created the growing problem of QRM. Help us preserve the history of electronic commun...
The Rise and Fall of the World's Largest Radio Telescope
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You need to think big to find answers to the fundamental questions of the universe. How about building a 1000 foot diameter radio telescope into a natural sinkhole, with cryogenically cooled receivers suspended 492 feet above by bridge cables. That was the Aricebo Radio Telescope. Completed in 1963, it was the world's largest single-aperture telescope for 53 years, only surpassed in July 2016 b...
The Voice of America's Shortwave Broadcast Tribute to Edward R Murrow - April 28, 1965
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Edward R. Murrow was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS. During the war he recruited and worked closely with a team of war correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys. A pioneer of radio and television news broadcasting, Murrow produced a...
Behind the Scenes at WWVH
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Talk about a dream job, how about being the Engineer in Charge at a radio station on the beach in Hawaii? The radio station is WWVH, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology's time and frequency station for Hawaii, Alaska and the Pacific. In this presentation Steve Johnston, WD8DAS, takes you behind the scenes and shows how time and frequency signals with parts per billion accura...
A PhD EE Explains AI
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How is it that a technology that can design closed loop servos, write business plans, pass the bar exam, impersonate your voice and create realistic images be unable to add two numbers? Clark Hochgraf, PhD, a professor of engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology explains this amazingly disruptive technology and how will it affect society. Help us preserve the history of electronic commu...
Fraudsters and Charlatans: The Problem of 'Fake News' on the Radio, 1920-1930.
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When commercial radio came onto the scene in 1920, listeners were amazed. This new mass medium brought music, sports, religious services, and so much more into their homes for free. But amidst the singers, and the sports reports, and the religious sermons, there were also some fraudsters and charlatans. Early radio was an all-volunteer enterprise, and on many local stations, informational talks...
The Amazing History of Microelectronics
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The cell phone in your pocket is really a marriage of at least three transceivers (cellular, WiFi and Bluetooth), a GPS receiver and a computer. Microelectronic technology is one of the drivers that made all this possible, and Intel alone produces over 5 billion transistors every second as part of its IC fabrication operations. How did this happen? Rochester Institute of Technology microelectro...
Vintage Law Enforcement Surveillance Radio
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During Mike Murphy's (@MIKROWAVE1) career he had the opportunity to be involved with the design of law enforcement surveillance radios, and he met some of the colorful personalities who pioneered these controversial technologies. In this presentation Mike tells the story of the people and companies that created surveillance devices that remained secret for decades, some of which still haven't s...
Dumpster Diving at Bell Labs - Saving Communications History
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Sometimes the importance of a prototype isn't apparent until years after it is built, tested and then often scrapped. Two items at the Antique Wireless Museum, an early Bell Labs transistor radio prototype from 1951 and an early AT&T cellular telephone evaluation set from 1978, weren't scrapped after successful testing, instead they was rescued from the dumpster and preserved. AWA Curator Emeri...
A Tour of the Max Bodmer Memorial Library at the Antique Wireless Association
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Felicia Kreuzer knows her way around the Max Bodmer Memorial Library at the Antique Wireless Association in Bloomfield NY, and her husband Jim happens to be the librarian. Her presentation covers the library from Acme to Zworykin, including Amateur Radio, books, catalogs, files, journals, and magazines as well as a glimpse of archiving and scanning efforts currently in progress. Much of this or...
Santa's Radio Repair Workshop - Don't Try This at Home!
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Santa's Radio Repair Workshop - Don't Try This at Home!
Roads Less Travelled - Minority Technical Achievement in the United States
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Roads Less Travelled - Minority Technical Achievement in the United States
A Multi-Band Radio for War-Torn Europe - The Philips 203U
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A Multi-Band Radio for War-Torn Europe - The Philips 203U
From Acetylene Ocean Buoys to Radios - The Little-Known Story of the AGA L-III
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From Acetylene Ocean Buoys to Radios - The Little-Known Story of the AGA L-III
The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army's Radios of the Vietnam Wars
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The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army's Radios of the Vietnam Wars
A Band Switching Game Changer - National's “Movable-Coil Tuning Unit”
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A Band Switching Game Changer - National's “Movable-Coil Tuning Unit”
A Fully-Automatic RotoBug by WB9LPU
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A Fully-Automatic RotoBug by WB9LPU
Disappearing Ham Radio History - Hope for the Future
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Disappearing Ham Radio History - Hope for the Future
Television and the Telephone get Multiplexed over Coaxial Cable and Microwave Radio in 1946
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Television and the Telephone get Multiplexed over Coaxial Cable and Microwave Radio in 1946
Building British Consumer Electronics - Rank Bush Murphy early 1960s
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Building British Consumer Electronics - Rank Bush Murphy early 1960s
Making Television Picture Tubes at Mullard
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Making Television Picture Tubes at Mullard
Electronics Manufacturing in Britain - GEC Television Production 1960
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Electronics Manufacturing in Britain - GEC Television Production 1960
Electronics Manufacturing in America - GE Electronics Park
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Electronics Manufacturing in America - GE Electronics Park
The Need for Speed - NASA's Move from Radios to Lasers
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The Need for Speed - NASA's Move from Radios to Lasers
The Little Known Story of Broadcasting's Forgotten Father - Charles "Doc" Herrold
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The Little Known Story of Broadcasting's Forgotten Father - Charles "Doc" Herrold
Preserving Your Antique Radio Collection
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Preserving Your Antique Radio Collection

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @manufacturedconspiracytheo3255
    @manufacturedconspiracytheo3255 17 годин тому

    Here for all the awesome information in the comments wow

  • @stephank9066
    @stephank9066 21 годину тому

    Militant zodiac sign gf be like: "Damage to this Vital War Material ist S A B O T A G E Please Handle Carefully"

  • @richardscott8186
    @richardscott8186 6 днів тому

    I have 2 w5. Keepers

  • @karlrschneider
    @karlrschneider 8 днів тому

    This OT enjoyed the video immensely! :D

  • @Laguna2013
    @Laguna2013 12 днів тому

    Hi Richard! I would love to talk about an update to my JSE Infinite Slope model 4 crossovers. I am the original owner and would love to take these special pieces to the next level and would be so excited to do a project with you.

  • @JamesMize-y7k
    @JamesMize-y7k 13 днів тому

    At Christmas in the late 1960's, while stationed at Naval Communications Station Nea Marki Greece, we would use our control circuit to daisy chain worldwide Naval Communications Stations (Greece to Ethiopia to Philippines to Hawaii, etc.) together and play jingle bells at all the stations simultaneously during slow holiday times.

  • @jasongarcia2140
    @jasongarcia2140 15 днів тому

    THE EMBLEM UNDER WHICH CRYSTALS GO YO WAR

  • @edwinlipton
    @edwinlipton 15 днів тому

    This is such a dramtic romantic film,, even thee intro music brings me too tears of joy. NOT!

  • @brianasbury8315
    @brianasbury8315 15 днів тому

    It's amazing how accurately Hawaii and Fort Collins are synchronized. Exact. On 15 MHz at night I get the female voice from Hawaii and the male voice from Fort Collins on the same transmission. I keep my wristwatch synchronized exactly to the time clock transmission.

  • @johnwetmore1527
    @johnwetmore1527 16 днів тому

    I am in the process of doing the exact same thing with a CCA 1000D transmitter, originally from WKAL in Rome, New York. I have been able to bring it up with about 750 watts out into my home brew dummy load and now in the process of changing the plate tuning and load. The driver tuning was simple and only required a capacitor change but the Pi network is making things interesting. Time to acquire some doorknob capacitors. The original ones were all rated for 10,000 volts at 10 Amps. Perhaps I can get away with lower power ones since I won't be running 1000 watts on the carrier in the end.

  • @vladtepes481
    @vladtepes481 17 днів тому

    A super interesting discussion of AWA. See you at the spring meet.

  • @burninglove-x2r
    @burninglove-x2r 18 днів тому

    Brilliant

  • @MsJamiewoods
    @MsJamiewoods 18 днів тому

    And now ATT has announced they are permanently hanging up on twisted pair of copper lines. ATT's communications future is only fiber optic technology.

  • @hestheMaster
    @hestheMaster 18 днів тому

    Santa is great for spying on children and giving them toys every December 25th but NEVER let him try to fix a tube radio!

  • @jonathanreedpike
    @jonathanreedpike 19 днів тому

    Cool film , thanks! Maybe noted before, notice how it's mostly women doing this precision work.

  • @w6msu
    @w6msu 19 днів тому

    - bravo!

  • @dickpache7401
    @dickpache7401 19 днів тому

    Interesting, de HR1/K2LCT!

  • @ProfessorToadstool
    @ProfessorToadstool 21 день тому

    Brazil huh? Explains a LOT.

  • @ethasitoem8292
    @ethasitoem8292 21 день тому

    Is this why a new standard was developed for measuring noise from LED lamps compared to fluorescent lighting?

  • @stekx1loaded108
    @stekx1loaded108 21 день тому

    Its absolutely amazing to see such quality control and pride in your work. These were the times when America was at its greatest

  • @allanegleston4931
    @allanegleston4931 23 дні тому

    i have a old radio with these frequencies on the dial.when i ever hear a ai voice i have to turn it off and use closed captions . thank goodness the original speaker was on the film. ham here , very fascinating.

  • @warp9988
    @warp9988 24 дні тому

    This is amazing!

  • @David-h5r1x
    @David-h5r1x 24 дні тому

    Not a single glove to be seen here

  • @Watchingtowatch4036
    @Watchingtowatch4036 24 дні тому

    Very informative, nice video from the good old days

  • @andrei880
    @andrei880 25 днів тому

    Funciona lo probé más o menos aora trabajo a un dispositivo igualmente espero tenerlo listo con un radio galena

  • @ThomasHardy-q7e
    @ThomasHardy-q7e 26 днів тому

    This is only the preparation of crystals expected something a bit better than this. To the extent of what crystals were used for this was disappointing. But that's just my opinion. Thanks for video

  • @ThomasHardy-q7e
    @ThomasHardy-q7e 26 днів тому

    It was more than decoration it was a fundamental part of the old world tek.

  • @mxblyxky
    @mxblyxky 27 днів тому

    This group of amateurs called “Thighar” in all these years of research never presented any concrete evidence about the missing people. They concentrated on the island of Nikumaroro where there are occasional traces of ancient navigators and scattered rubbish. Everything they presented is forced and implausible. From the confusing and inconsistent radio signals heard by a teenager in St. Persburg, Florida to a supposed jar of freckle cream that we don't even know if she used. They contradicted the concrete evidence, which is the radio log book of the Coast Guard cutter Itasca, stationed on Howland Island, which contains Amélia's last communications in a strong and clear radio signal, near Howland Island at 8:43 am minutes with the fuel already running low. How then did the plane end up on the island of Nikumaroro (Gardner) 404 miles, 650 km, south of Howland? Furthermore, these searches of all these ships and planes were useless because they arrived many days later, coming from Hawaii. Only the Itasca could find something still on the surface on the same day if there was a lifeboat inside the Electra, and if it were possible to remove it through the back door in the water, but no one talks about that.

  • @EthelMaeHenderson
    @EthelMaeHenderson 28 днів тому

    This was back from a time before radical leftists destroyed America. I miss those days.

  • @ton10291
    @ton10291 28 днів тому

    What an interesting presentation. Thanks for posting this!

  • @Most_Trustworthy_Weasel
    @Most_Trustworthy_Weasel 29 днів тому

    No wonder why crystal radios were so expensive then!

  • @tretowntret7541
    @tretowntret7541 29 днів тому

    W PRL U TELEFONY FUNKCJONOWALY GORZEJ NIZ W USA W 1919 ROKU BOSTON

  • @timothyhall861
    @timothyhall861 29 днів тому

    I've spent most of my life repairing electronics for underground Coal mining...Most of their telephones until recently used Carbon Microphones in the handsets and I always wondered if a solonoid and carbon pile could work as an amplifier and never knew that this thing was actually done with apparently great success at the turn of the century...Thank You for telling me this

  • @billblinn6931
    @billblinn6931 29 днів тому

    AM radio doesn't have to be nothing but hate speech. Sad,

  • @williamnichols2067
    @williamnichols2067 29 днів тому

    Wow, an electro-mechanical audio amplifier. So, basically a transformer that can self adjust to audio frequencies, thus amplification was similar to stepping up ac voltage using a ratio of windings. Old tech like this is very intriguing,

  • @shutincharlie3461
    @shutincharlie3461 Місяць тому

    Wow!! Amazing...testing , retesting and testing again. What care and precision.

  • @zinckensteel
    @zinckensteel Місяць тому

    I've fooled around with carbon contact mechanical amplifiers a bit, with appropriately noisy success in most cases. There's a short video of one such setup on my channel.

  • @kairysisKrantas
    @kairysisKrantas Місяць тому

    For some reason the thumbnal us very unattractive. It induces disgust and makes me want to skip the video. Strange.

  • @JushuaAbraham-sj2xl
    @JushuaAbraham-sj2xl Місяць тому

    I thought that active signal amplification took off only with the invention of vacuum tubes.Does the Marconi magnetic detector belong to the same family of " non fully electronic" amplifiers?

  • @edwardholland36
    @edwardholland36 Місяць тому

    Thank you this was a really interesting and well presented video about an almost forgotten piece of technical history. Even better to see and hear it working.

  • @markgohl2660
    @markgohl2660 Місяць тому

    Interesting technology

  • @richardbrobeck2384
    @richardbrobeck2384 Місяць тому

    Robert Did amazing job restoring this ! thanks for the great video guys .

  • @gretalaube91
    @gretalaube91 Місяць тому

    Modern "spark gap" = SMPS .... Where's the FCC regulation now? 73 de W3IHM

  • @glasslinger
    @glasslinger Місяць тому

    Has this been tried under actual antenna conditions? A crystal set typically has a loaded output of a few tenths of a volt with a good antenna and strong station. I wonder if it would actually work for real! I tried to build one of these but in every case the "amplified output" was worse than simply connecting to the speaker directly! Oh well.

    • @RadioHist
      @RadioHist 22 дні тому

      Oh yes. The Heathkit CR-1 was connected to a single wire with a total length of 50 ft. including the lead-in and less than 20 ft. off the ground. And the orientation of the wire is 45 and 60 degrees off from optimum.

  • @WOFFY-qc9te
    @WOFFY-qc9te Місяць тому

    Thank you for your very well researched and presented video and thank you for rescuing and documenting this fine equipment. May I point you and your followers to the Porth Curno Museum of World Telegraphy in Cornwall. They have a magnificent collection of repeaters and other telegraphic kit. The Museum is a must see and a short walk to the beach where the United Kingdom connected to the Empire. Best wishes from the UK.

  • @tedrobinson372
    @tedrobinson372 Місяць тому

    Unfortunately the presentation was not formatted corrected to 16x9 when uploaded to UA-cam The Audubon submitted to AT&T in 1913 was not suitable for use as an amplifier. You underestimated the work AT&T scientists and engineers did to make a successful amplifier.

  • @Allan_aka_RocKITEman
    @Allan_aka_RocKITEman Місяць тому

    March 28th, 1983 was the day I left Florida to go to San Diego, California for USN boot camp...😊 *EDIT→* Charlotte, NC? FWIW, I have been living near Elizabeth City since 1995.

  • @Allan_aka_RocKITEman
    @Allan_aka_RocKITEman Місяць тому

    Starting at about 13:51 in this video: I bet folks 'back in the day' would be rather amazed to hear _Lynyrd Skynyrd._ 😊

  • @john-em1jr
    @john-em1jr Місяць тому

    Hi fascinating i did something similar back in the sixties with a balanced armature GPO earpiece and a carbon mic insert all mounted in a thick cardboard tube it worked quite well after a lot of fiddling around...

  • @Allan_aka_RocKITEman
    @Allan_aka_RocKITEman Місяць тому

    @WirelessMuseum >>> Great video...👍