http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/06/07/neighbors-of-the-air/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:58:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/06/07/neighbors-of-the-air/comment-page-1/#comment-1782 The Ham Radio News and Reviews Blog by the RF-Geeks » Blog Archive » Neighbors Of The Air - 1935 Popular Mechanics Wed, 07 Jun 2006 18:56:13 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/06/07/neighbors-of-the-air/#comment-1782 [...] This afternoon I ran across an interesting article from the Februrary 1935 edition of Popular Mechanics entitled Neighbors Of The Air. It’s an interesting read, and gives some insight to how radio operators were viewed in 1935: Highly regarded technical operators capable of communicating world-wide with a high emphasis on saving lives and restoring communications during disasters. There are even actual scans of the original pages that have some great shots of different stations and QSL cards from 1935. Not much has changed since then, apparently! Although the FCC seems a lot more relaxed now: Uncle Sam is fussy about this, and maintains a small army of radio inspectors and monitor stations that check every signal on the air at regular intervals. They must be within the limits assigned, and the hams have little left with which to work since commercials have taken over many of the ham-developed high frequencies. [...] [...] This afternoon I ran across an interesting article from the Februrary 1935 edition of Popular Mechanics entitled Neighbors Of The Air. It’s an interesting read, and gives some insight to how radio operators were viewed in 1935: Highly regarded technical operators capable of communicating world-wide with a high emphasis on saving lives and restoring communications during disasters. There are even actual scans of the original pages that have some great shots of different stations and QSL cards from 1935. Not much has changed since then, apparently! Although the FCC seems a lot more relaxed now: Uncle Sam is fussy about this, and maintains a small army of radio inspectors and monitor stations that check every signal on the air at regular intervals. They must be within the limits assigned, and the hams have little left with which to work since commercials have taken over many of the ham-developed high frequencies. [...]

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