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FEBRUARY, 1916. RADIO COMMUNICATIONS BY THE AMATEURS

 183 Drake Ave.,      New Rochelle, N. Y.

Mr. Hiram Percy Maxim.

Dear Mr. Maxim:

After our telephone conversation last evening I received the message from Davenport,. Iowa, just as you relayed it. I got your signals very strong and clear and as you proceeded they even increased in intensity.

As the test you sent out by wireless differed slightly from that I got over the phone I used the wired text and retransmitted it at 12.22 A. M.

There was a lull in local QRM here just after midnight and I was very pleasantly surprised at the intensity of your work. I got an acknowledgement at 1.15 from WHB, the N. Y. Herald, of receipt of the message and I asked him QSA? He came back with a QSA very, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard also told me my spark was very heavy, so I trust it carried well at a distance.

The Herald had a pleasant little notice in today’s issue about the test and I have also delivered mag. to The Mayor here.

Most of the local amateurs kept out nicely, but there were three stations, 2SO, 2GJ, 2NG, that kept jamming me from eleven ten., also later 2PV, (about 11.55 to 12.05) held his key down continuously. Altogether these stations broke things so that I was unable to get only very small snatches of the relay mag. until you came in strong at 12.16.

I have recently worked many 8 stations, every time I attempted it, such as:―8YC, 8GT, 8ZO, 8ER, 8AEZ, 8XA and 3HH and 1ZL in about an hour, 10.30 to 11.30 one evening.

I get 1ZL very well indeed, but at present his spark is a little uncertain, strong one minute and fades the next, but I get him strong part of the time every evening.

With sincere wishes for a prosperous year for “QST,” the Relay League and Seasonable greeting to yourself,

Cordially yours,

(Signed) GEO. C. CANNON,

Dear Mr. Maxim:

Just a line to let you know I got through to Washington, D. C. direct. My relay received by 3DS and he deliver about 1.00 A. M. January lst, as specified. My spark must have been working well that night for he got me on Galena; “Clear, musical,  strong, rotary.”

I think you will be glad to know the above. Article about it published in the Washington Herald, morning of January lst. I have written to Mr. Kirwan.

Yours hastily,

(Sgd.) GEO. G. CANNON.

Editor’s note: This means that the message relayed from Hartford, Conn., at 12.15 A. M. went through to Washington, D. C., by a single relay at New Rochelle, N. Y., and was delivered in Washington at 1.00 A. M., a good example of what can be done.

Philadelphia, Pa. January 1, 1916.

American Radio Relay League,

Hartford, Conn.

Gentlemen:

I wish to acknowledge receipt of the December and January issues of your valued publication and desire to thank you for the same.

In these days when scientific plagiarism seems to be so much in vogue and, our leading publications are filled with contentions and disputes regarding the priority of development of radio apparatus, it is somewhat of a relief to be able to turn to your modest publication and read some accounts of real sympathetic work. The fact that some people who are now enjoying notoriety in radio engineering circles, have not yet realized the extreme detrimental effect on the art and development of radio science, of jealousy and opposition, seems to indicate that in spite of their superior technical ability, they have not yet acquired the common-sense philosophy of the ordinary amateur. The key-note of this philosophy as evinced by the articles and contributions to “QST” seems to be “HANG TOGETHER.” It is an old adage which said that opposition never got anywhere.

In reference to the matter of binding the amateurs into an integral body in the form of a national organization, it seems to me that the AMERICAN RADIO RELAY LEAGUE has the right ideals and is in a fair way to attain them. The attitude of the men at the head of this project is very evident and may be somewhat paradoxially described as disinterestedly sincere. Disinterested, in the sense that they are seeking no financial gain and sincere regarding their purpose. 