Resurrecting Technical Ideas from the Past: There are many gems buried in mountains of paper! Some electronic archives like the QST archive of the ARRL based on single articles, make it very difficult to dig them out.
One example: I got several bound volumes of QST from the 1930s and 1940s. By browsing I found the "I.A.R.U. News" and "For…
Resurrecting Technical Ideas from the Past: There are many gems buried in mountains of paper! Some electronic archives like the QST archive of the ARRL based on single articles, make it very difficult to dig them out.
One example: I got several bound volumes of QST from the 1930s and 1940s. By browsing I found the "I.A.R.U. News" and "Foreign News" columns. They answered questions that could not be answered by the German narrative about the start of ham radio in Germany after WW2. The very early start of ham radio was not enabled by a small group of enthusiasts as one of these illegal stations (I.A.R.U. definition), the later DL1CU, made us believe.
The start was that the US military government wanted a legal basis for emergency traffic by GIs with US ham radio licenses. So the first German ham radio law was issued by the "Wirtschaftsrat", a German body under supervision of the allies, a few months before the Federal Republic of Germany was founded.
A primary task of the Wirtschaftsrat was for example to bring the German population through the famine winter 1946/47, not the wishes of a few 100 Germans with an illegal hobby.
Alexander - Thanks for yet another example of the value of making archival material widely available online. One of the best sources of US Amateur Radio regulatory information was the W5YI Report. A paper archive of those has been located and is being scanned and brought online within DLARC.
_NO_ ONE ELSE CARED TO EVEN ATTEMPT SUCH A THING - UNTIL DLARC!
There is similar "alternative historical information" to be gleaned from a careful study of the W5YI Report that are at odds with the narrative from the ARRL about the history of various regulatory issues involving Amateur Radio. I think that history will be very valuable in future regulatory reforms for US Amateur Radio that will be attempted in this decade.
Resurrecting Technical Ideas from the Past: There are many gems buried in mountains of paper! Some electronic archives like the QST archive of the ARRL based on single articles, make it very difficult to dig them out.
One example: I got several bound volumes of QST from the 1930s and 1940s. By browsing I found the "I.A.R.U. News" and "Foreign News" columns. They answered questions that could not be answered by the German narrative about the start of ham radio in Germany after WW2. The very early start of ham radio was not enabled by a small group of enthusiasts as one of these illegal stations (I.A.R.U. definition), the later DL1CU, made us believe.
The start was that the US military government wanted a legal basis for emergency traffic by GIs with US ham radio licenses. So the first German ham radio law was issued by the "Wirtschaftsrat", a German body under supervision of the allies, a few months before the Federal Republic of Germany was founded.
A primary task of the Wirtschaftsrat was for example to bring the German population through the famine winter 1946/47, not the wishes of a few 100 Germans with an illegal hobby.
Alexander - Thanks for yet another example of the value of making archival material widely available online. One of the best sources of US Amateur Radio regulatory information was the W5YI Report. A paper archive of those has been located and is being scanned and brought online within DLARC.
_NO_ ONE ELSE CARED TO EVEN ATTEMPT SUCH A THING - UNTIL DLARC!
There is similar "alternative historical information" to be gleaned from a careful study of the W5YI Report that are at odds with the narrative from the ARRL about the history of various regulatory issues involving Amateur Radio. I think that history will be very valuable in future regulatory reforms for US Amateur Radio that will be attempted in this decade.