Broadcast: 3rd February 1937

Starring: Various

Added: Feb 03 2005

Interwoven with the amateur radio operators of America Hams as they call themselves is the history of the American radio relay league, which was founded by Hyrum Percy Maxim engineer and inventor. Mr Maxim became interested in amateur radio in 1907 through the activities of his son. Father and son together developed one of the most dominant amateur radio stations in their part of the country. In those days amateurs talked to each other in dots and dashes, actual voice communication was to come later. One evening in 1914 Hyrum Maxim sits at the key to his transmitter at his amateur station in Hartford Connecticut…