Ross Hull was born in St. Arnaud,
Victoria<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Arnaud,_Victoria>, a son of
(Presbyterian) Rev. Henry Tremlett Hull (1858 – 1 January 1933) and his wife
Mabel Constance Josephine Hull (née Amos) (c. 1866 – 13 July 1931), and was
educated at Williamstown High
School<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamstown_High_School_(Victoria)>[1]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_A._Hull#cite_note-1>
and Ballarat
College<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ballarat_College&action=edit&redlink=1>.
He trained as an architect, but had a keen interest in the rapidly developing
field of wireless communication. He took a leading part in experiments which
demonstrated the value of shorter wavelengths for commercial communication. He
was first in Australia to relay (receive and rebroadcast) an overseas wireless
programme, through 3LO<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3LO> shortly after it was
opened.[2]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_A._Hull#cite_note-killed-2> He
was vice president of the Victorian Division of the Wireless Institute of
Australia<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Institute_of_Australia> in
1923.[3]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_A._Hull#cite_note-3>
In 1925 Hull abandoned architecture and began practising in
Sydney<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney> as a consulting radio engineer. He
was elected Federal Secretary of the Wireless Institute and the Australian
Radio Relay League.[4]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_A._Hull#cite_note-4>
He was a key figure in ground-breaking communication experiments between the
U.S. and Australia.[5]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_A._Hull#cite_note-5>
In 1927 he went to the United States, to work with the headquarters staff of
the American Radio Relay
League<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Radio_Relay_League> on the
production of the league's magazine
QST,[6]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_A._Hull#cite_note-6> then director
of the ARRL Experimental Laboratory.
He returned to Australia in 1929, to take up the post of technical editor of
Wireless Weekly in
Sydney.[7]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_A._Hull#cite_note-7> A year or
two later he resumed his experimental and journalism work with ARRL at
Hartford, Connecticut<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford,_Connecticut>. He
was particularly interested in UHF<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UHF>
communication and built a radio-controlled
glider<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_(aircraft)>.[8]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_A._Hull#cite_note-8>
Early in 1938 he assumed American nationality and was appointed editor of QST.
For over six months he was actively engaged in experiments in television, then
was killed when he accidentally received a shock of 6,000 volts while
experimenting with television apparatus in the laboratory of his summer
residence at Vernon,
Connecticut<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon,_Connecticut>.[2]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_A._Hull#cite_note-killed-2>
THE ROSS HULL CONTEST
The Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) has run a contest in the memory of
Ross Hull since 1950 and this year I have been appointed manager.
The Contest is a DX based Marathon on VHF and up bands for the entire month of
January and there is no reason anyone, anywhere doesn’t enter and send in a log.
The Rules are simple – Work anyone on SSB CW or Digital any day over the month,
repeat contacts are allowed every day and pick either the best seven days or
two days from the entire month. Scoring is 1 point up to 100km 2 points 200km
etc, we have N1MM UDC created thanks to Les G4OGB and the VK Contest logger
VKCL also caters for the contest.
If you are a Contest columnist for your local club or better still National
magazine, please get in touch for more details.
https://www.mnds.com.au/vkcl/
https://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/rosshull/
Trent
VK4TS
M0HTT
WW7TT
Po Box 275 Mooloolaba QLD 4557
Mobile 0408497550
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