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Pictures of historical equipment
from the VWOA Scrapbook
Just click on the small images to view it full size
If you are
interested in donating or bequeathing your historical equipment and
artifacts to the Veteran Wireless Operators Association, please read the
information at Preserving Our History.
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This is an actual souvenir postcard issued shortly after the Titanic
disaster, with "sparks" Jack Phillips singled out as a hero. Above his
photo (right hand oval) is the tiny caption that reads "CQD". |
Army Signal Corps photo from 1942 shows the truck-mounted mobile radio set
SCR-299, somewhere on a training mission in Louisiana. The radio was just one of
many different models manufactured by VWOA stalwart Bill Halligan, W9AC. |
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From a1937 commemorative post card showing Marconi and his yacht the
Elletra. |
Paul Forman Godley announcing the first successful trans-atlantic
transmission using the "useless" shortwaves! Twenty years later the VWOA
awarded him a Marconi Medal for this pioneering achievement. |
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"Mr. New York Radio", Henry Paulisen using radio
direction-finding equipment in the early 1950's (judging from the aircraft). Henry won
both the Marconi Gold Medal as well as the David Kintzer Memorial Award as well as dozens
of awards from other organizations for his many years of work as FCC Engineer-in-Charge in
New York City. |
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Three photos of WUG2, West
Memphis, Arkansas in the late 1920's. The photos are courtesy of the United
States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Memphis office. Many more
wonderful photos and the entire story of inland marine radio can be found at
the Inland Marine Radio Archive site listed on our links page or by clicking
here IMRHA.. |
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