Posted on 04/03/2011 7:56:18 AM PDT by Brandonmark
Used a Motorola HT-200 with an added DTMF encoder to place "autopatch" calls in '77 after getting tech ham ticket.
Used WR5ABY 146.88 Dallas/DARC and WR5ABE 146.(don't recall freq) in Irving at the time to make those 'calls' ...
Motorola HT-200 portable radio (model run from 1960 - 1970 or so): mfwright.com/mikeht220/ht200.html
Motorola HT-220 shown in right-background ...
I have read “The Victorian Internet.” The Gordon book looks good.
Over the past 3 or 4 years, I’ve done extensive reading on the history of communications and news gathering.
Since I do my own newsblog and have no “formal journalistic training,” I thought some history of the craft would be helpful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_line
The Chappes carried out experiments during the next two years, and on two occasions their apparatus at Place de l’Étoile, Paris was destroyed by mobs who thought they were communicating with royalist forces. However in the summer of 1792 Claude was appointed Ingénieur-Télégraphiste and charged with establishing a line of stations between Paris and Lille, a distance of 230 kilometres (about 143 miles). It was used to carry dispatches for the war between France and Austria. In 1794, it brought news of a French capture of Condé-sur-l’Escaut from the Austrians less than an hour after it occurred. The first symbol of a message to Lille would pass through 15 stations in only nine minutes. The speed of the line varied with the weather, but the line to Lille typically transferred 36 symbols, a complete message, in about 32 minutes.
Actually, yes I do, because I am disabled after a gentleman ran a yield sign and tore off the front of my car and left me with RSD/CRPS a chronic pain issue. So surfing for info is a part time job now.
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