[TenTec] OT: First voice broadcast a hoax?

[Carter, K8VT]

Ron Notarius W3WN wrote:

>  I glanced at that link this morning.  Seems to me that the main
>  thrust of the article is that due to a lack of documentation, the
>  author has his doubts about Fessenden's claims.

Yes, "doubts" or possibly the ramblings or wishful thinking of an old 
man, but "hoax" might be too strong a word.

>  However, it also struck me that the author was primarily unhappy that
>  the event wasn't documented to the heavy degree that something would
>  be today.

I don't think the author wanted "heavy documentation". I think his 
[reasonable] contention is that there was NO documentation at all 
--except for *one* PRIVATE letter that was published DECADES later.

He is making the reasonable speculation that such an achievement would 
have merited something more than one private letter, decades later, 
especially as it has been clearly demonstrated that Fessenden was 
-noted- for blowing his own horn and highly publicizing his other 
achievements...