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… there was Hugo Gernsback. Here are a few of his contributions:
\n– Established one of the first companies to sell equipment to radio amateurs in 1904.
\n– Founded the Wireless Association of America in 1909.
\n– Published two amateur radio oriented magazines: Modern Electrics<\/i> in 1908 and The Electrical Experimenter<\/i> in 1913.
\n– Initially proposed the idea of allocating 200 meters and down to amateur radio in 1912.<\/p>\n
Why don’t we know more about Hugo Gernsback<\/a> and his early contributions to the hobby? At what point did the momentum shift from Hugo and his Wirless Association of America to Hiram Maxim and his ARRL? … and why?<\/p>\n Hugo<\/a> made a huge contribution to science fiction<\/a> but it seems his contributions to amateur radio have been overlooked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" … there was Hugo Gernsback. Here are a few of his contributions: – Established one of the first companies to sell equipment to radio amateurs in 1904. – Founded the Wireless Association of America in 1909. – Published two amateur radio oriented magazines: Modern Electrics in 1908 and The Electrical Experimenter in 1913. – Initially … Continue reading “In the beginning……”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[111,116,160,187,235,263],"class_list":["post-3615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-radio","tag-hiram-percy-maxim","tag-hugo-gernsback","tag-modern-electrics","tag-periodicals","tag-the-electrical-experimenter","tag-wireless-association-of-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vUOZ-Wj","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}