VHA – VNZ are the the span of prefixes that Australia has, for a list of prefixes see the ARRL page. Also available is Global Overlay Mapper one section covering Australia is below. GOM (global overlay mapper) is put out by EI8IC and is a share ware product, he also has a number of other scripts for windows computers
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3 October 19
Robert Webster Ford, AC4RF (Silent Key, 1923-2013)
Robert Webster Ford on Wikipedia
A short synopses by ARRL
Ham Gallery has a pretty good write up with extra information at the beginning then the rest is from Wikipedia
Also his book of his time in India is free to read online at archive.org
25 September 19
The 1899 Americas Cup Race was the first time that reporters could send back information on the progress of the race thanks to Marconi…..
From Wikipedia: The 1899 America’s Cup was the 10th challenge for the Cup. It took place in the New York City harbor and consisted of a best of five series of races between the defender, Columbia, entered by the New York Yacht Club, and Sir Thomas Lipton’s Shamrock, representing the Royal Ulster Yacht Club. Columbia won all three races against Shamrock.
From Wikipedia about Columbia: Columbia, a fin keel sloop, was designed and built in 1898-9 by Nathanael Herreshoff and the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company for owners J. Pierpont Morgan and Edwin Dennison Morgan of the New York Yacht Club. She was the third successful defender built by Herreshoff.
Columbia had a nickel steel frame, a tobin bronze hull, and a steel mast.
24 September 19
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American painter and inventor. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs… More at Wikipedia
In 1832, following a three-year European tour, Samuel F.B. Morse sailed home to America. Tucked away in the hold was Gallery of the Louvre (1831–1833), a massive six-by-nine-foot canvas that would take him 14 months to complete. Morse intended for the painting, which depicted some three dozen of the Louvre’s greatest works displayed together in an imagined museum gallery, to serve as a sweeping art history lesson for the American people. This painting, he was certain, would finally propel him to fame… The rest of the story at Artsy.net
23 Sept 19
The Webster Bandspanner mobile antenna manual is below, they also made marine antennas….
Webster-Bandspanner
22 Sept 19
From Eham Forum… Post by: WF0H on February 23, 2003… I am not sure when this started, but it was well established in the early 1950’s, which were probably the heyday of the 807 tube. I once had a Johnson-Viking mobile rig from the late 1940’s that had an 807 final in it – a wonderful CW and AM rig, too. In the 1930s, the popular tube was the Model 45. By the late 1950’s, the tube of choice was the 6146, so it probably stared someplace in between those two eras.
20 Sept 19
The first electronic computer named the ENIAC — Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer and unvailed in 1946, for more information and pictures … Click Here
16 September 19
Internet Radio Linking Project… The IRLP uses Voice-Over-IP (VoIP) custom software and hardware. Coupled with the power of the Internet, IRLP will link your repeater site or simplex station to the world in a simple and cost effective way… http://www.irlp.net/
13 Sept 19
If you want to know your declination NOAA has a calculator, it also has one for magnetic field, another one for historical and a composite grid… Click Here
NOAA also has an app and other handy bits of information… Click Here
Magnetic Declination on Wikipedia
8 September 19
Johnson Viking Valiant
Below are 2 pictures of Dean – W8IM’s station
Modes: AM/CW
Bands: 160 – 10 Meters
Input Power: 200W-AM, 275W-CW
VFO: Yes
Power Supply: Internal
Final Tube(s): 3ea. 6146 parallel
Modulator: 2ea. 6146 push-pull
New Price/Year: $349.50 kit/$439.50 wired/1956-62
Size: 11.5″h x 21.0″w x 16.25″d
Approx. Weight: 73 lbs