Topband: Webinar - The first Top Band DX Contest â?" the 1921 Transatlantic Test

[Eddy Swynar]

On 2013-02-24, at 8:18 AM, James Rodenkirch wrote:

>> Tha's a great topic and I'm sure Frank will add a lot of interesting 
>> information.  About twenty years ago, I became interested in the 1921 
>> transatlantic tests and slowly began collecting information.  The fall, 1921 
>> issues of QST are a great source as is the Radio Club of America's (RCA) 
>> early 1950s  publication on 1BCG.  That publication gives a detailed 
>> explanation of the antenna and is copied from an article by George Burghard 
>> from the February, 1922 issue of QST.



Hi Guys,

There was once a rather extensive collection of QSTs from the 1920's that originally belonged to the original 3XN, whose "new" home was the reference section at the University of Western Ontario's (London, Ontario) main library for years & years...

When the staff "de-commissioned" the magazines some years ago, as an alumni of the school I was fortunate enough to have been the very happy recipient of each & very issue: amazingly, select copies from the early 20's---when the League was sponsoring its Transatlantics---have pencilled-in notes from OM Langford's hand itself in the margins, listing the call signs of the stations that he heard on this side of the Atlantic at the time of the tests!

They are true gems, and I value each & every issue here immensely...

~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ