I plan on sitting down with a tape recorder and interviewing Grandpa about his experiences with technology throughout the years. It would be a great help if you guys could come up with some questions and I'll do up a page on my website about it.
-Bill 'GF
Now that is an excellent idea OM, outstanding way to preserve history.
Possible questions:
How old were you when you first became interested in radio?
What was it like, or how did you go about buying/making parts for your early radios?
What was the first station which you remember listening to, ham/commerical?
What do you remember about that station, location/freq/content of broadcast?
What did folks first think of radio, and those who were radio hobbyists?
Did people really gather around the radio sets for listening parties?
Finally, did W2VJZ's DX-100 strap as much back then? :p
Bill, wonder if your grandpa saved any of his notes or early projects?
When my elmer passed on his wife was kind enough to give me a huge notebook of his.
It was chock full of tech notes, radio history, etc.
Priceless material, after 7 years I still have not finished reading it!
73 OM
