On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Dan Say wrote:
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I had copies of "Electron" decades ago, but I must have trashed them. I
still have a somewhat beat up (and no covers) ETCO catalog from the early
seventies.
I have some old Canadian amateur radio magazines from the fifties or
maybe forties, and some copies of the early magazines put out by
the Canadian Amateur Radio Federation.
I have a biography of Fessenden, and I think it's this one:
"Radio's First Voice: The Story of Reginald Fessenden" (I'm not
checking but the date would be about right).
I had a copy of Jim Kitchin's book about amateur radio in Canada
from the early seventies, but I loaned it to someone a really long
time ago and it disappeared. At the time it didn't seem worth keeping,
other than the callsign listing that was out of date when I got it, but
36 years later I wish I hadn't gotten rid of it.
I read "From Spark to Space" at least 30 years ago.
I have the RAQI book about the history of amateur radio in Quebec, I think
it suffers from not being chronological.
I have more books about the history of radio from the US, including a
biography of Howard Armstrong, though I don't have "Empire of the Air"
which is worth having (I read it out of the library).
Some of the books about amateur radio that I have are 50 or more years
old, making them historical items in themselves. I have some QSTs from
1947, when I got them about 1972 they must have been kept with mothballs
because I couldnt' go near them for years, until finally that mothball
smell faded.
I was there at the end of May of 1978 when amateur packet radio was
first demonstrated, the demonstration seems the thing remembered by
history but the prime purpose was for John deMercado to come and
talk to the Montreal Amateur Radio Club about changes to the amateur
radio service to allow digital communication.
Michael
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