[TowerTalk] The Early Transatlantic Wireless Stations

[W6SX Hank Garretson]

At 09:15 AM 06 07 2007, AD3F wrote:

>      Along these same lines is <200 Meters & Down> by Clinton B. 
> DeSoto of ARRL.  Written in the early 30s, I believe (can't find my 
> copy in the shack), this is an account of the early days of 
> wireless communications and the initial efforts of Congress to move 
> those pesky Hams to the shorter wavelengths where they won't harm 
> the Navy's communications circuits.  Fascinating history of how 
> Hams' hobby was able to push the then-state-of-the-art in radio.
>P.S.  The book has photos of towers in it.


Published 1936.  Paperback $1.00 postpaid!  Gene is right, wonderful 
book.  My copy has no pictures.


73,

Hank, W6SX

Mammoth Lakes, California