BOOK REVIEW Surfing (DXing) The Web by David Bart EDITOR’S NOTE: The following items have been suggested as interesting reading or as a useful resources. The following information does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by RCA. We welcome suggestions and recommendations from RCA’s members regarding books and media to share with RCA’s membership. The scope can include technical, regulatory, or other subjects. We encourage you to send your suggestions to David Bart at jbart1964@gmail.com for publication in a future issue of the Proceedings.
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he Proceedings of the Radio Club of America frequently includes book reviews. In this issue, we touch on a few internet offerings that may be of interest to our readers. In radio parlance, DXing is the hobby of receiving and identifying distant radio or television signals or making two-way radio contact with distant stations in amateur radio, citizens’ band radio or other two-way radio communications. Many DXers also attempt to obtain written verifications of reception or contact, sometimes referred to as QSLs or veries. The name of the hobby comes from DX, telegraphic shorthand for “distance” or “distant”. In this issue, we stretch the DXing idea into the internet space.
main/activity/transatlantic-tests/, Antique Wireless Association’s https://www.antiquewireless.org/ homepage/history-1921-12-11/, and RCA’s https:// www.radioclubofamerica.org/transatlantic-testcentennial. Documentation is also available from https:// worldradiohistory.com/ and www.transatlantic.org.uk/.
ATLANTIC CABLE PK PORTHCORNU https://pkporthcurno.com/pk150-connected-collections/
The following sites may be of interest, and are presented in alphabetic order:
1921 TRANSATLANTIC TEST RESOURCES The Fall 2021 issue of the RCA Proceedings included a special section dedicated to the centennial of the 1921 radio tests, where radio amateurs in the U.S. and Canada transmitted messages across the Atlantic Ocean to the U.K. and France using short waves of less than 200 meters. See that issue for websites and other resources, including Antique Wireless Association’s http://1bcg.org/1BCG/, the American Radio Relay League’s www.arrl.org/transatlantic, the Radio Society of Great Britain’s https://rsgb.org/
K Porthcurno, in the U.K., operates a museum and archive of Cable and Wireless’s global communications history based in the Wilshaw station building outside Penzance, Cornwall. PK Porthcurno’s archives were combined with the “2021 Citizen Curators,” students at Exeter University and overseas to create the PK150 Connected Collections of online maps, videos, blogs, and reports on the relationships between telegraphy, gutta percha, imperialism, and shipworm, among other subjects.
ATLANTIC CABLE HISTORY https://atlantic-cable.com/ AWA member Bill Burns has developed a leading resource on historical technologies, especially cable telegraphy. Among other resources, he also curates a superb collection of online primary sources.
AWA YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/c/AntiqueWirelessMuseum The Antique Wireless Association has a YouTube page with recordings of presentations from its annual conferences and other presentations. Featured topics range from early telegraph to the iPhone, electronic espionage technologies, early electrical meters, wireless, and many presentations about early radio history, including 126 years of innovations in high-frequency amateur radio technologies and techniques.
RCA President John Facella re-enacting the first transatlantic test. SPRING 2022 PROCEEDINGS
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