Rooster to speak at 2016 Dayton Hamvention

K2TQN via email - 04/16/2016

Radio Pioneers Old Transmissions and Voices from the Past

As John K2TQN Rooster #690 put it, "It's official, I'm speaking at the Dayton Hamvention on Friday May 20 at 2:30 Pm in room 5." The title of his presentation is "History: Old Transmissions and Voices from the Past."

His presentation includes: Photos, Graphics, and the actual Voices of the following Wireless Pioneers telling their personal accounts and stories: Marconi, Jack Binns, Irving Vermila (Ham #1), Dr. Lee DeForest, Hugo Gernsback, Edwin Armstrong, John Reinartz (life story), Leon Deloy (French 8AB - first transatlantic QSO), Elmo Pickerill (first airplane-to-ground QSO, 1910), Art Collins, General Griswold (USAF- SAC), Clarence Tuska describing the start of QST magazine in 1915, an SOS from the passenger ship "PRINSENDAM" in 1980 and early Wireless Ship transmissions on 500kc CW.

He hopes you can make his talk, and He'll be at the Collins CCA banquet.

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