Title: American Radio History Site Post by: W3GMS on February 06, 2012, 01:20:46 PM I am not sure if this has been posted here before or not, but if not here it is:
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/index.htm Great source of vintage broadcast radio material. Joe, W3GMS Title: Re: American Radio History Site Post by: w1vtp on February 06, 2012, 03:27:43 PM What I would really, really, really like to have is the printed page from the old call book, spring or summer of 1952 that lists my call as WN1VTP. That would mean a lot to me
Al Title: Re: American Radio History Site Post by: W3GMS on February 06, 2012, 04:17:38 PM What I would really, really, really like to have is the printed page from the old call book, spring or summer of 1952 that lists my call as WN1VTP. That would mean a lot to me Al Sorry Al but my call books jump from 1948 to 1953, otherwise I would have given you your page! I do see your VT listing in the Fall 1953 call book. Antenna looks good. Can't wait to see how well I hear you now. 73, Joe, GMS Title: Re: American Radio History Site Post by: w1vtp on February 08, 2012, 03:25:35 PM What I would really, really, really like to have is the printed page from the old call book, spring or summer of 1952 that lists my call as WN1VTP. That would mean a lot to me Al Sorry Al but my call books jump from 1948 to 1953, otherwise I would have given you your page! I do see your VT listing in the Fall 1953 call book. Antenna looks good. Can't wait to see how well I hear you now. 73, Joe, GMS Joe It's been a quest of mine since the beginning. I was too poor to afford the call book back then. Somewhere along the way, I lost my original WN license. I seem to recall that when you had a change or whatever, you had to send your license in and it was returned "cancelled." Got my W1 in the fall of 52. I'd love to get a copy of the page. A long time ago I got confirmation - I think it was from W8JYZ the old QSL card guy that I was found in the spring of 52 call book. Al Title: Re: American Radio History Site Post by: Todd, KA1KAQ on February 08, 2012, 05:52:56 PM I've got a bunch of the old callbooks around here somewhere, Al. Next time they surface I'll see if I have that year/season.
Great site, Joe - a lot of good info in those thumbnails. I downloaded a few catalogs to peruse. TNX fer posting it. Title: Re: American Radio History Site Post by: Steve - K4HX on February 08, 2012, 06:03:58 PM That site is chock full of goodness.
Title: Re: American Radio History Site Post by: W3GMS on February 09, 2012, 05:07:28 PM Steve & Todd,
Glad you folks enjoyed the link to the site. It does have some neat stuff on it. Al, When I upgraded many years from Novice the FCC examiner kept my Novice license. Unfortunately if I would have known that, I would have made a copy of it, if they had copying machines back then! I would love to have my cancelled original Novice license. For my FCC Commercial licenses, they would mail me back my cancelled license when I renewed. Joe, GMS Title: Re: American Radio History Site Post by: K5UJ on February 09, 2012, 06:05:26 PM I made a point of keeping all my expired licenses all the way back to novice and 3rd class phone and all other FCC correspondence such as a warning I once got and an erroneous violation notice and so on. They were all in a manila envelope but at some point around 20 years ago, probably in a move, I lost them. I would periodically hunt for them when the fit came over me but never found them. I eventually gave up, thinking I had mistakenly thrown them out. Then, last summer I was cleaning out the basement to make room for my workshop and I had my old Army duffel bag out in the garage. I was emptying it out and there was the manila envelope with all my missing licenses etc. I was absolutely overjoyed. That one find made the whole weekend worth while. Now they're all in a fireproof lockbox. I am not losing them again. AMfone - Dedicated to Amplitude Modulation on the Amateur Radio Bands
Al, I hope you get a callbook entry or some other listing. Remember back when FCC granted Extra and 2 letter call privs to anyone who could prove that they had been licensed before 1 May 1917? Acceptable proof was a call book listing (or whatever was the Callbook at the time) because of the fire that destroyed the FCC's records. I imagine all eligible are SK now but for years there would be these occasional ads in the back of QST offering hundreds of dollars to anyone who could produce a page from a callbook in such and such year with callsign #XX in it. |