[78-L] earliest recorded fon call Hello Hawaii How Are You!

[Michael Biel]

From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
>> The official technical description of ANY use 
>> of Morse code by radio was "Wireless Telegraph".  
>>
>>     
Steven C. Barr wrote:
> Nope...you lost a "Y!" Code transmission (which, BTW, uses
> the "International" code, not the Morse code...!) is regarded by
> the FCC as "wireless telegraphY" or mode "A1" (voice is "A3!").
>
>   

There was no FCC around in the teens and 20s, so your mode designations 
are anachronisms. (And isn't A1 Continuous Wave or CW?  That wasn't 
often used in 1915.)   I understand that you make telephony calls and 
once in a while you used to receive a telegraphy from Western Union.  
The SYSTEMS (and the USE of the systems) are called telegraphy, 
telephony, wireless telegraphy, and wireless telephony; but the DEVICES 
are called The Telegraph, The Telephone, The Wireless Telegraph, and the 
Wireless Telephone.  

I have three books here: "The ABC of Wireless Telegraphy" from 1904, 
"Wireless Telegraphy and Wireless Telephony" from 1915, and "Elements of 
Radio Telephony" from 1923.  The 1904 book illustrates the Morse 
Telegraph Alphabet on page 77 in the midst of discussing some 
transmission systems in use in England and Bavaria, so the International 
Code was apparently not yet in use.  The 1915 book illustrates both the 
Morse and Continental codes on page 98 and 99, and on pages 102 and 103 
explains: "There are two Codes in general use for wireless telegraph 
purposes, the Morse and Continental.  . . .  Atlantic coastwise steamers 
use the Morse code; transatlantic ships use the Continental code."  Note 
that there is no "y" at the end of "wireless telegraph" in the first 
sentence.  Likewise, in the third book they also use both forms of the 
words, sometimes in the same paragraph.  For example on page 4: "The 
operation of radio or wireless telephone systems requires corresponding 
units . . ." and "Thus for radio telephony the battery will be replaced 
by a high frequency current generator . . ." in the same paragraph. 


> (for whatever reason, most of us "hams"
> were guys, NOT gals...?!)
>   

Actually the reason you thought there were no female amateurs is that 
they are not called gals, they are YLs or XYLs.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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> ...stevenc
>
> "are "bugs"...the keys that created dots mechanically...now in
> "expensive collectable" status...?!?!
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