WX7P
09-17-2013, 07:45 PM
In those early days the wireless amateurs in this country were a rather reckless sort of element and became more and more disliked on account of their growing mischief. False distress and alarm calls by perverted "humorists" were the usual "smart" acts, and when a coastal station received a"
distress call (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CQD)" in those days the thought was always uppermost in the operator's mind that the call was one of the usual amateur hoaxes. Despite Mr. Gernsback's vigorous warnings through his editorials in Modern Electrics, of which publication he was editor, the mischief continued, till in 1910 several bills were introduced in Washington which fairly promised to throttle the activities of every wireless enthusiast in the country.
http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-first-radio-nerds-were-a-bunch-of-trolls-1327624607 (http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-first-radio-nerds-were-a-bunch-of-trolls-1327624607)
Change a few words, and this reads like the same stuff you read now.
So much for codeless licenses letting the riff-raff in. They've always been here.
distress call (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CQD)" in those days the thought was always uppermost in the operator's mind that the call was one of the usual amateur hoaxes. Despite Mr. Gernsback's vigorous warnings through his editorials in Modern Electrics, of which publication he was editor, the mischief continued, till in 1910 several bills were introduced in Washington which fairly promised to throttle the activities of every wireless enthusiast in the country.
http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-first-radio-nerds-were-a-bunch-of-trolls-1327624607 (http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-first-radio-nerds-were-a-bunch-of-trolls-1327624607)
Change a few words, and this reads like the same stuff you read now.
So much for codeless licenses letting the riff-raff in. They've always been here.