Amateur Radio History
Amateur Radio: AWonderful "Playground"
- Origins during late 1800's
- Attracted lay/technical people
- Government support/regulation ~1911. "200 Meters and down"
- International Conference in 1906, 27 nations signed a protocol. Officialized
the word "radio".
- Commercial broadcasting/messaging conflicts
- 1913 Armstrong (an amateur) discovers regenerative feedback
- military
- first national digital network
- "Discovery" of ShortWave (below 200 Meters/above 1.5 MHz)