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The Rise and Fall of the World's Largest Radio Telescope
You need to think big to find answers to the fundamental questions of the universe. How about building a 1000 foot diameter radio telescope into a natural sinkhole, with cryogenically cooled receivers suspended 492 feet above by bridge cables. That was the Aricebo Radio Telescope.
Completed in 1963, it was the world's largest single-aperture telescope for 53 years, only surpassed in July 2016 by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in China. Following two breaks in cables supporting the receiver platform in mid-2020, the National Science Foundation decommissioned the telescope. A full collapse of the telescope occurred on December 1, 2020, before either repairs or co...
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The Voice of America's Shortwave Broadcast Tribute to Edward R Murrow - April 28, 1965
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Edward R. Murrow was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS. During the war he recruited and worked closely with a team of war correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys. A pioneer of radio and television news broadcasting, Murrow produced a...
Behind the Scenes at WWVH
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Talk about a dream job, how about being the Engineer in Charge at a radio station on the beach in Hawaii? The radio station is WWVH, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology's time and frequency station for Hawaii, Alaska and the Pacific. In this presentation Steve Johnston, WD8DAS, takes you behind the scenes and shows how time and frequency signals with parts per billion accura...
A PhD EE Explains AI
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How is it that a technology that can design closed loop servos, write business plans, pass the bar exam, impersonate your voice and create realistic images be unable to add two numbers? Clark Hochgraf, PhD, a professor of engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology explains this amazingly disruptive technology and how will it affect society. Help us preserve the history of electronic commu...
Fraudsters and Charlatans: The Problem of 'Fake News' on the Radio, 1920-1930.
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When commercial radio came onto the scene in 1920, listeners were amazed. This new mass medium brought music, sports, religious services, and so much more into their homes for free. But amidst the singers, and the sports reports, and the religious sermons, there were also some fraudsters and charlatans. Early radio was an all-volunteer enterprise, and on many local stations, informational talks...
The Amazing History of Microelectronics
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The cell phone in your pocket is really a marriage of at least three transceivers (cellular, WiFi and Bluetooth), a GPS receiver and a computer. Microelectronic technology is one of the drivers that made all this possible, and Intel alone produces over 5 billion transistors every second as part of its IC fabrication operations. How did this happen? Rochester Institute of Technology microelectro...
Vintage Law Enforcement Surveillance Radio
Просмотров 1,9 тыс.7 месяцев назад
During Mike Murphy's (@MIKROWAVE1) career he had the opportunity to be involved with the design of law enforcement surveillance radios, and he met some of the colorful personalities who pioneered these controversial technologies. In this presentation Mike tells the story of the people and companies that created surveillance devices that remained secret for decades, some of which still haven't s...
Dumpster Diving at Bell Labs - Saving Communications History
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Sometimes the importance of a prototype isn't apparent until years after it is built, tested and then often scrapped. Two items at the Antique Wireless Museum, an early Bell Labs transistor radio prototype from 1951 and an early AT&T cellular telephone evaluation set from 1978, weren't scrapped after successful testing, instead they was rescued from the dumpster and preserved. AWA Curator Emeri...
A Tour of the Max Bodmer Memorial Library at the Antique Wireless Association
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Felicia Kreuzer knows her way around the Max Bodmer Memorial Library at the Antique Wireless Association in Bloomfield NY, and her husband Jim happens to be the librarian. Her presentation covers the library from Acme to Zworykin, including Amateur Radio, books, catalogs, files, journals, and magazines as well as a glimpse of archiving and scanning efforts currently in progress. Much of this or...
Santa's Radio Repair Workshop - Don't Try This at Home!
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You better watch out, You better not try, To turn on the switch, I'm telling you why: Santa Clause fixed your radio. He's stripped all the screws, They're overly tight, Replaced all the tubes with Christmas tree lights. Santa Clause fixed your radio. Tom Perera, W1TP, channels his inner Santa as he takes a free Atwater Kent radio that nobody wanted at a NEVEC Brookline show, and transforms it i...
Roads Less Travelled - Minority Technical Achievement in the United States
Просмотров 5089 месяцев назад
How we think about invention tells us a good deal about who we are and what we value as a society. The longstanding ideal of American inventiveness-the belief that Americans are a uniquely enterprising and creative people-contains assumptions that historically functioned to exclude and discount the contributions of marginalized peoples. In this presentation Antique Wireless Museum Historian Rod...
A Multi-Band Radio for War-Torn Europe - The Philips 203U
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During World War 2 the Philips company continued to produce consumer goods after the German occupation began in 1940. One product was the Philips 203U, a multi band radio with many variations designed to be used throughout Europe. The design and construction methods used in this radio were quite unique. Robert Lozier has one of these radios in his collection, and tells the history of the radio ...
From Acetylene Ocean Buoys to Radios - The Little-Known Story of the AGA L-III
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The AGA Company of Sweden began as an acetylene illumination company, but like many companies in the 1920's it couldn't resist the urge to make radios. Antique Wireless Association Historian Robert Lozier explains how early experiments in refining aluminum lead to the creation of an industrial gas giant, founded by a Nobel Prize laureate, that just happened to make a side trip in to radios. Hel...
The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army's Radios of the Vietnam Wars
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Effective tactical radio communications is critical for all armies, and this was true for the the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Armies during the Vietnam Wars. Antique Wireless Association Member and communications historian Brian Harrison, KN4R, discusses the commonly-used HF and VHF radios used by the VC and NVA during the Vietnam War, and also the Army Security Agency (ASA)’s ground-based a...
A Band Switching Game Changer - National's “Movable-Coil Tuning Unit”
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ln the mid 1930s James Millen and the National Company, Inc announced an innovation called the “Movable-Coil Tuning Unit”. The first of these “coil-catacomb” or “sliding-coil” receivers was introduced in 1936 and represented the first truly high-performance communication receivers that did not use plug-in coil sets. This receiver series continued to evolve and expand through WW2 and beyond with...
A Fully-Automatic RotoBug by WB9LPU
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A Fully-Automatic RotoBug by WB9LPU
Disappearing Ham Radio History - Hope for the Future
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Disappearing Ham Radio History - Hope for the Future
Television and the Telephone get Multiplexed over Coaxial Cable and Microwave Radio in 1946
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Television and the Telephone get Multiplexed over Coaxial Cable and Microwave Radio in 1946
Building British Consumer Electronics - Rank Bush Murphy early 1960s
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Building British Consumer Electronics - Rank Bush Murphy early 1960s
Making Television Picture Tubes at Mullard
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Making Television Picture Tubes at Mullard
Electronics Manufacturing in Britain - GEC Television Production 1960
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Electronics Manufacturing in Britain - GEC Television Production 1960
Electronics Manufacturing in America - GE Electronics Park
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Electronics Manufacturing in America - GE Electronics Park
The Need for Speed - NASA's Move from Radios to Lasers
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The Need for Speed - NASA's Move from Radios to Lasers
The Little Known Story of Broadcasting's Forgotten Father - Charles "Doc" Herrold
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The Little Known Story of Broadcasting's Forgotten Father - Charles "Doc" Herrold
Preserving Your Antique Radio Collection
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Preserving Your Antique Radio Collection
High Power Shortwave - High in the Andes - HCJB
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High Power Shortwave - High in the Andes - HCJB
Cable and Wireless - The History of Trans-Oceanic Communication
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Cable and Wireless - The History of Trans-Oceanic Communication
Data Networks Decades Before The Internet
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Data Networks Decades Before The Internet
Advanced Infinite Slope Crossover design
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Advanced Infinite Slope Crossover design

Комментарии

  • @depletable
    @depletable 45 минут назад

    These old-school instructional videos are top-notch in disseminating information. Concise. Masculine no-nonsense tone. 🤌

  • @harrybond007
    @harrybond007 18 часов назад

    Seems pointless, just buy new capacitors!

  • @MrNobody-bv4ec
    @MrNobody-bv4ec 23 часа назад

    The attention to detail your crews put in is second to none, truly awesome work.

  • @HobbyNut-sy3lo
    @HobbyNut-sy3lo День назад

    1940's solid state microelectronics Love it!

  • @Chr.U.Cas1622
    @Chr.U.Cas1622 День назад

    👍👌👏 Oh WOW, simply fantastic! What an effort this was. Thanks a lot for uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and especially health to all involved people.

  • @armandomercado2248
    @armandomercado2248 2 дня назад

    Wonderful historical account.

  • @Radioman.
    @Radioman. 3 дня назад

    I am really surprised they have an ALDA transceiver and Dentron Transceiver. Didn't know they actually produced the Dentron.

  • @wmbrown6
    @wmbrown6 3 дня назад

    The Model 28's sound was apparently what was recorded in the teletype room of WCBS Newsradio 88 in New York as heard behind their anchors from around late 1972 to c.1987. The sound differs significantly from the 15's; also, they had three 28 KSR's in a corner of their teletype room, and based on the sound coming therefrom it was there where that audio was recorded. In a sense, its "light touch" sound, conveying a sense of elegance and class, fit in with parent CBS's designation as the "Tiffany Network."

  • @paragraph339stgb3
    @paragraph339stgb3 4 дня назад

    This why crowns contain so much crystal😮 They comunicated with their crowns😊

  • @MrSearay1962
    @MrSearay1962 4 дня назад

    Great subjects! Unfortunately, the echoey audio prevents me from watching this video. Suggest you fix and re-post. I visited the antenna a couple years before the collapse

    • @WOFFY-qc9te
      @WOFFY-qc9te 3 дня назад

      Interesting story, life is not perfect lower your bar your missing out.

  • @afnDavid
    @afnDavid 4 дня назад

    So where were the SETI at Home receivers, digitizes and digital data recorders located? I ran the SETI&Home screensaves on many my PC's from August 1999 up untill they ended the program.

  • @afnDavid
    @afnDavid 4 дня назад

    24:05 Collins R-390 HF receiver.

    • @WOFFY-qc9te
      @WOFFY-qc9te 3 дня назад

      Ohh I am having a moment !!!!!!

  • @py2rpjrubens450
    @py2rpjrubens450 4 дня назад

    I heard an Arecibo broadcast on 430 MHz many years ago!! Good Vídeo!! TNX 73!!

  • @knotsure913
    @knotsure913 4 дня назад

    this looks really interesting but i just cant

  • @robertdnecci6824
    @robertdnecci6824 4 дня назад

    Excellent Presentation! Thank you.

  • @mackfisher4487
    @mackfisher4487 4 дня назад

    Dr. Craft, During your incredibly interesting presentation I kept waiting for an amateur radio connection. I'm sure that Angel V. and other staff and visitors must have utilized amateur radio as a hobby and a link to the states. I hope the new visitor center also has a variety of repeaters that could be very useful in times of disasters Thus fulfilling one of the amateur radio fundamentals to serve the public good. 73

  • @WECB640
    @WECB640 4 дня назад

    That echo is really distracting. 😥 I wish the audio was clear.

    • @DonauweIIe
      @DonauweIIe 4 дня назад

      maybe he can reupload the video without that echo, normal audio.

  • @pramodkumar.k.v.750
    @pramodkumar.k.v.750 5 дней назад

    Precise Hair splitting technologies go to dirty battlefield. Shame! Shame! 😅

  • @williamwalls9768
    @williamwalls9768 5 дней назад

    My daddy used to work on them things. -Ernest P. Worell.

  • @ryloken1919
    @ryloken1919 5 дней назад

    I'll just leave this here_ Piezoelectric Fields & Effects on Human Consciousness ruclips.net/video/aAXmDmai0Bc/видео.htmlsi=h932XH6HQvJuY4OM

  • @kornami8678
    @kornami8678 6 дней назад

    Loved to listen to them in the 70s. Big signal in Chicago.

  • @terencebarfield5864
    @terencebarfield5864 6 дней назад

    Sir AA8 you are very good you can teach me all the Amteur radio technic

  • @terencebarfield5864
    @terencebarfield5864 6 дней назад

    Sir I am seriously enjoying your presentation

  • @terencebarfield5864
    @terencebarfield5864 6 дней назад

    Question: what is the formulae in placing our Antenna up off ground at specific frequency

  • @terencebarfield5864
    @terencebarfield5864 6 дней назад

    Question : what governs the antenna thickness in relation to the 50 watts RF output Transceiver

  • @terencebarfield5864
    @terencebarfield5864 6 дней назад

    Sir I do like your presentation

  • @xycap8351
    @xycap8351 6 дней назад

    This was great Im glad i happened upon it.. America really was no 1 , what a mess they've made of the west now.

  • @CharlesLeigh-Smith-lm1yz
    @CharlesLeigh-Smith-lm1yz 6 дней назад

    Great talk using fascinating research. Well done!

  • @uditkotnis7531
    @uditkotnis7531 6 дней назад

    That's a flouroscope XRD.

  • @Q26Video
    @Q26Video 8 дней назад

    A really interesting presentation. I used an HRO as a teenager in the 1970s and it was fascinating to find out more about these great radios. Thank you so much!

  • @RouseOutdoors
    @RouseOutdoors 8 дней назад

    I got an old Philco radio from my grandpa and I know nothing about creating circuit boards. Is there a place I can buy a pre-built battery eliminator?

  • @youtubeaccount931
    @youtubeaccount931 9 дней назад

    Great presentation. A worthy endeavor!

  • @thisisreallife5086
    @thisisreallife5086 9 дней назад

    It's wonderful to step back in time and see the greatest generation getting down to the business of saving the world from tyranny. Each of them were contributing their small part to ensure victory. I'm sure many of the women in the film were quietly praying for their husbands, fathers or brothers while working hard every day. It reminds me of the famous poster of the woman rolling up her sleeve with the title, "We can do this!" and another one that says, "Do the job he left behind". Thanks to all of you who made the world safer for future generations. I hope we can do the same if it's ever needed.

  • @maryfrederick6934
    @maryfrederick6934 10 дней назад

    Very well done and interesting video. I have a different theory, as a pilot’s daughter but I learned a lot! Thanks for making this available for all of us who continue to have Amelia living in our hearts 👍🏻🙏

  • @vote4carp
    @vote4carp 10 дней назад

    $5,000 a year salary before the war must have been really spectacular to translate radio transmissions.

  • @2sc458
    @2sc458 10 дней назад

    Amazing the skill required by the mostly women tuning these crystals. Amazing the precision achieved with such old machinery. Interesting to see how people interacting so directly with physical science. ie. squeeze the crystal and measure the voltage. These are artists.

  • @removechan10298
    @removechan10298 10 дней назад

    "out standing in my field" ABSOLUTELY AWESOME. 630 seems very cool

  • @mochachinolatte4397
    @mochachinolatte4397 10 дней назад

    Thank you for this, I was thinking the other day how much id like to see historical education. Instant Subscribe

  • @luxuriousfir
    @luxuriousfir 11 дней назад

    Absolutely fascinating:]

  • @user-uy7ff6zz5q
    @user-uy7ff6zz5q 12 дней назад

    To get to optimal acceptance is crazy 🤪

  • @richarddegen6184
    @richarddegen6184 13 дней назад

    Started in the late 50's playing with an old Zenith console shortwave radio, my Elmer in 1962 was my Jr High shop teacher, W0DPB....gave me the novice exam which I finally passed, was WN0EQV...first workable station was an Eico cw transmitter with a 6146 final, Hallicrafters SX140 receiver and a folded dipole made from 300 ohm twinlead.........played with a Knight kit tube type CB after that..........1974........same elmer gave me the novice exam again, WN0NBA...............later that year, FCC exam in St Paul, MN........passed General exam with the code at 13wpm............still a ham WB0NBA....50 yrs same call.....some years of little activity, but still at it! , built and operated lots of Heathkit stuff in the 70"s.........didn't have much money then. still have a couple boatanchors ( Swan 500C and Kenwood TS520) that I operate along with modern Yaesu stuff.......not much effort to get licensed nowdays, get online, couple weeks memorizing test questions, get out your checkbook or C Card, buy latest gear, now your'e an Extra class in a few months........very apparent when on the bands nowdays..

  • @agranero6
    @agranero6 14 дней назад

    She was using a fluoroscope to find that axes...ohh boy this is the crystal version of the Radium girls.

  • @exodeus7959
    @exodeus7959 15 дней назад

    Well that make the movie “The Dark Crystal” just a little bit darker.

  • @maxrodriguez2031
    @maxrodriguez2031 15 дней назад

    Not the exposure to x-rays

  • @v9turner
    @v9turner 15 дней назад

    I wonder if the workers dressed up for the filming ?

  • @briandoane7404
    @briandoane7404 15 дней назад

    What if used nitrogen gas to cooling vacuum tubes?

  • @BryanKyzar
    @BryanKyzar 16 дней назад

    I cannot believe that all of these processes and methods were thought of by other humans. The amount of engineering and testing to make these precise machines is insane.

  • @MikeNel33and49
    @MikeNel33and49 16 дней назад

    Helped jig tune and ship 100's crystal filters almost all passed QC,crystals were lapped on site an amazing substance!!!

  • @ChasOnErie
    @ChasOnErie 16 дней назад

    CRYSTAL ARE NOW GROWN BY A COMPANY IN OHIO AND JAPAN !!!!

  • @michaelrothschild2681
    @michaelrothschild2681 17 дней назад

    Great video!