I bought a copy of that book and read it probably several decades ago.
It's fascinating.
I've been working on getting on 630 and 2200 meters. I'll probably make it
onto 630m before I get on 2200m. I already got the permit (OK) to operate
on both bands.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 2:30 PM ktfrog007--- via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest@contesting.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I hope everyone who's interested took time to watch Frank's (W3LPL)
> presentation on the history of transoceanic communications. Fascinating
> and informative.
> www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLN0MMxCvlc
>
>
> When I got interested in ham radio back in 1957 I heard of a book called
> "200 Meters and Down" about the early days before WW II.
> I didn't read it until recently. Each year the ARRL sends me a $10
> birthday coupon for their store and this year I used it toward the $16
> quality paperback book, published in 1936.
> It's been very interesting reading. Many of the issues were different
> back then, but some are still the same (builders/experimenters versus
> appliance operators, for example). And the author, Clinton DeSoto, was
> remarkably prescient about distant future developments.
> In the final chapter, "Whither Ham Radio?" he mentions things like single
> sideband and television. And he says this:
> "Many writers prophesy that one day you will be able to see what is going
> on anywhere in the world at any moment. They say, too, that one day you
> will be able to converse, instantaneously, with any person anywhere on
> earth, be he on a street corner in Marseilles ... on an air freighter
> hovering above Vladivostok ... in the wilds of Sierra de Leone ... on an
> ice floe near Little America ... aboard a spaceship bound for Venus."
> Well, we haven't gotten to the Venus excursions yet (back then they
> thought Venus had an Earth-like climate), but the rest is already history.
> He didn't realize that satellites or broadband submarine cables would be
> needed, but he was on the right track. And I doubt if he had iPhones in
> mind. No one did except maybe Dick Tracy.
> 73,
> Ken, AB1J
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