How We Went From Tapping Code to Radio Shows

[Tom Azlin, N4ZPT]

thanks, that is what I was wondering about. I read that Fessendon had 
his design and Marconi a similar design but not that it was actually 
deployed. Too bad there are not United Fruit Company records of their 
installations or of the experiments.

73, Tom n4zpt

wb5mmb wrote:
> Hi all, I believe that United Fruit was supplied with equipment by 
> Fessenden's company. Also Marconi had his magnetic-detector that 
> would demod AM. The most interesting question is did the broadcast 
> really take place?   http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0052/t.437.html
>      Sandy
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> At 03:30 PM 1/29/2008, Karl W4KRL wrote:
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>> Famous Engineers > How We Went From Tapping Code to Radio Shows
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>> It's Christmas Eve, 1906. A Morse code operator on a United Fruit 
>> ship in the Atlantic Ocean moves closer to his receiver. Instead of 
>> the usual, primitive taps of Morse code, he hears a man speaking 
>> over the receiver, followed by music. And so began the world's first 
>> long distance radio transmission.
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