Simon Templar <usenet@vk3xem.net> wrote in
news:60bunfF1q12feU1@mid.individual.net:

> http://web.acma.gov.au/pls/radcom/cl...okup?pCLIENT_N
> O=157452

Wow...I didn't know Oz only issues licenses for a year. How many
bureaucrats does that support?...(c;

I don't think it's fair, either. FCC tells the world how OLD I am if you
look me up.

73 DE W4CSC AKA KN4IM AKA WB4THE AKA WN2IWH in 1957...I was 11.

Simon, over on another newsgroup for boaters is a guy named Roger Long, a
marine architect who designs ocean research vessels. Roger was the bearded
hippy architect on The Discovery Channel's expeditions to HMS Titanic and
the guy who figured out why Titanic sank so fast...most impressive. Roger
has been in the deep sub at the wreck site of Titanic.

Well, Roger told me his grandfather was a ham long, long ago and emailed me
scans of documents the family held all these years since he was a boy
amateur radio operator, LONG before there were licenses! His first license
was 2ABT in Albany, NY USA when they started licensing these guys around
World War 1. But, one of the scans he sent me was his grandfather sitting
at his homebrew ham station as a boy IN 1906, making him one of the
earliest hams on the air! We've gotten further evidence of his activities
as far back as 1903. What a great bunch of information on the earliest
years of ham radio we found digging around. The man was a physics teacher
in the NYC school system before becoming our equivalent of headmaster. On
fledgling broadcast radio station WABC in NYC, Mr Long had a 30 minute
weekly physics lesson teaching physics to the public on the radio in the
1930's.

Just thought you'd get a kick out of such an early ham radio. 2ABT was
licensed for TEN watts! With the crystal and coherer receivers of WW1, I
can't imagine 10 watts being detectable over 2 miles...(c;

Simply amazing.....