Radio Amateur Gets Award For Distinguished Service (Sep, 1938)
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Source: Mechanix Illustrated ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Sep, 1938
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Source: Mechanix Illustrated ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Sep, 1938
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That is one spiffy looking trophy.
Radio Amateur Gets Award For Distinguished Service
IN RECOGNITION of distinguished service rendered during the January, 1937, Ohio River flood emergency when he co-operated with civil and military authorities in the transmission of official communications for more than 40 hours without sleep, Robert T. Anderson, of Harrisburg, Ill., was recently awarded the William S. Paley Amateur Radio Award for 1937. In the photo above, Anderson (left) is shown receiving the trophy from its donor, William S. Paley, president of the Columbia Broadcasting System.
That trophy looks like it’ll put someone’s eye out.
Anyway, for the rest of the story
http://www.illinoishistory.com/hamradio.html
Comment by Firebrand38 — October 3, 2007 @ 4:12 am
Hey! Isn’t that Ralph Fiennes?
Comment by Ric — October 3, 2007 @ 5:26 am
What the heck kind of haircut is THAT?
Comment by Blurgle — October 3, 2007 @ 11:14 am
I thought that trophy was some type of nose-sputnik jewelry accessory.
Comment by Rick Auricchio — October 3, 2007 @ 7:10 pm
Thanks Firebrand38, great article!
I want to ask you…. what was that Radio magazine that had 4 or so single panel cartoons near the back?
They were in the style of MAD Magazine artwork.
One was of a guy winding the inductor for the distress frequency as his fishing boat sank.
One was of a kid with a knot in the antenna of his WalkieTalkie. Now he has a base loader!
One was a disreputable sidewalk salesman hawking cheap walkietalkies by pretending to contact Wake Island.
My Google-fu is inadequate to find this magazine myself.
One issue had a great article on Black Propaganda during WWII!
Another, Opera Music Pirates!
Still another, CB Radio gangs! (MC)
Your assisstance apreaciated.
Comment by jayessell — October 3, 2007 @ 10:39 pm
jayessell, from what you’ve given me and right off the top of my head it sounds like CQ magazine. Back issues are being scanned in and made available at http://hamcall.net/cqcgi
Be advised there is a subscription fee and I’m not absolutely certain that this is the magazine you were talking about. What year did you read this magazine?
Comment by Firebrand38 — October 4, 2007 @ 6:03 am
Firebrand38
Middle to late 1960s… early 1970s?
I don’t think it was CQ.
Comment by jsl151 — October 4, 2007 @ 9:15 am
Sorry, I’m drawing a blank. I don’t think that Popular Communications was being published back then. I can’t think of any offhand that fit the bill.
Comment by Firebrand38 — October 4, 2007 @ 10:14 am
It could have been S9, Tom Kneitel’s old magazine. Or Elementary Electronics, which was around that time frame and had many comics of that sort
Comment by David Moisan — October 6, 2007 @ 7:02 pm