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Roots of Radio
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A Voice Across the Pacific: KWID & KWIX
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FDR Sought to Throw America’s Voice Westward
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by Dr. Adrian M. Peterson, 4.23.2008
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It was August 1941, just a few months before the tragic events now known worldwide as Pearl Harbor.
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Last of VOA’s Wartime Transmitting Stations Goes Dark
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How International Broadcasting Found Its Way to Delano
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by James E. O'Neal, 3.01.2008
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For the first time in nearly 63 years, the station is now strangely quiet. Save for an occasional lizard or cotton tail, the parking lot is vacant.
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Loy Barton, a Forgotten Radio Pioneer
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by James E. O'Neal, 7.18.2007
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To date, no one has been able to offer a clue to Barton’s identity and his place in the history of radio.
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Milking Time
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A Milkman Tunes in to Radio During Chores in 1923
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7.04.2007
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Radio has been a presence in the American home and workplace from its earliest days.
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AFN: The Vanished Shooting Star
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AFN London Gave Pleasure to Many Thousands of American Servicemen and Women During the War, as Well as 5 Million Britons. It Shone Brightly and Briefly, Then Vanished Almost Without a Trace.
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by Patrick Morley, 5.23.2007
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During World War Two, the Armed Forces Radio Service “may well stand as the highest expression of American broadcasting.” That was the view of one of the leading figures in the broadcasting world.
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ARRL Is Robust as It Nears 100
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by James Careless, 3.28.2007
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When amateur radio enthusiasts established the American Radio Relay League in 1914, Morse Code was king.
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Quantegy Finally Goes Tapeless
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It's the End of the Reel for Magnetic Tape at Company That Evolved From Ampex
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by James E. O'Neal, 3.14.2007
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“Unfortunately, as technology improves, there is a decrease in demand for magnetic tape media.
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The Vacuum Tube Celebrates 100 Years
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A Century Mark for the Triode Electron Tube, What Its Inventor Called the Audion
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by James E. O'Neal, 3.01.2007
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The device that heralded the beginning of the 20th century electronics industry first saw the light of day in late 1906, just over a century ago.
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Voice of America: Palo Alto in California
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A Story of an International Shortwave Broadcasting Station in California That Was on the Air During the Intense Days of the Decisive Pacific War
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by Adrian M. Peterson, 3.01.2007
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This is the second in an occasional series on the stories behind shortwave broadcasting stations in the United States and its territories; it is published in cooperation with the National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters. Some stations are gone and almost forgotten, others can be heard today.
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In Search of the Truth About Fessenden
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The Question of Whether the Inventor Really Made the First Broadcast Is Far From Settled
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by Donna L. Halper, 2.14.2007
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Readers expressed strong interest in the story “Fessenden: World's First Broadcaster?” by James E. O'Neal, which appeared in the Oct. 25, 2006 issue of Radio World. This article is in response to that story.
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Re-Creating Baseball Games ‘a Fine Art’
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Simulations Helped Stations Avoid Expense of Phone Lines and Sending Sportscasters to Away Games
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by Big Jim Williams, 1.03.2007
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I received my first full-time announcing job in 1951 at KVVC(AM) in Ventura, Calif.
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Early Roots of Seattle’s ‘Stereo 89’
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One in a Series of Occasional Articles by Readers Recalling Radio Facilities of Their Past
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by Tim Shook, 12.06.2006
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And turning the FM dial far left to 89.5, you could hear educational station KNHC from Seattle’s Nathan Hale High School.
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Radio’s ‘First Voice’ Remembered
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Historians May Argue Over the Details, But Fans Salute Inventor’s Legacy Regardless
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by Scott Fybush, 11.22.2006
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A hundred years since the human voice and music were first sent out over the airwaves, broadcasters and historians are rescuing the “world’s first broadcaster” from obscurity.
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Fessenden: World's First Broadcaster?
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A Radio History Buff Finds That Evidence for the Famous Brant Rock Broadcast Is Lacking
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by James E. O'Neal, 10.25.2006
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That's what the history books have proclaimed for decades. It is what I'd like to report as we near the 100th anniversary of that event, so dear to those of us in broadcasting.
Oh, if were it that simple.
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