I'm not particularly into radio, but it's the human interest that I enjoy, the names on those documents. The hours that were spent by enthusiasts creating this venture, the importance that it had for them and the relationships that it founded. These people moved on to other phases of their lives, some sadly probably not making it to the natural end, but in these points in time they were making their mark on history, a peoples' history.
In the 1980s I was involved with the University of Kent Amateur Radio Club (or was it a Society?) which operated as G3UKC (University of Kent at Canterbury) and G8KUC. I recall other stations active in those days were G5IC (Imperial College, London) and G8IUB (University of Birmingham). The station was well-sited on high ground above Canterbury with a telescopic tower and at one point a 4-yagi array on 144 MHz. A fall in interest in the hobby, plus redevelopment by the University eventually led to the station's demise. In more recent years I was a member of the Open University ARC, G0OUR, at Milton Keynes. This was still operational a couple of years ago but I'm uncertain of the current status.
Back in the late 90s I got the job of clearing the loft space of the old Caledonia Workshop on Mappin Street which had been used by the old University of Sheffield radio society. There wasn't any equipment up there but it was full of magazines , manuals and QSL cards from the 50s , 60s and 70s. It was all a sad little time capsule which went into the skip when the building was demolished.
I was a 1968 graduate of NYU's the University Heights campus in the Bronx, NYC, which had an amateur club station there, W2DSC. When I was back there last in 1973, after I had been in the US Air Force, the Campus was sold and became Bronx Community College, with the current NYU located in downtown Manhattan today. 73 de W2CH Ray.
Despite radio being in its prime 60 years ago or so I still class clubs like this as continuous pioneers of the hobby....well done Lewis keep digging m8
In my area of Southern Oregon it is very common to this day for people to have CB radios And of course many of our truckers Still use CB radios. Old school yep that they work. Blessings to you all coming at you from the hills of Southern Oregon
10:43 Broadcasting... Broadcasting yourself never changes... Whether it's amateur radio operators in 1974, or Twitch streamers in 2022, everyone appreciates T.I.T.S.
I enjoy these series Lewis, and was pleasantly surprised to see the callsign of Dick, G3XVF in the top band contest log at the beginning. Dick was a very good friend of mine during the 70’s and 80’s when I lived in Norwich. Thanks for posting this, 73, Colin G4MQK
I half expected to see myself (G3ZVT) in the topband CW contest log at 1:52, but my licence was issued nine days later than the page shown! I love the way G3CXX refers to radio amateurs as "licenced transmitters" in much the same way as typists were called "Type Writers" in Victorian and Edwardian times. I imagine he was using whatever terminology he felt his correspondent would understand. Another great video, but it would be good to know who has preserved all these documents.
Once lived not far from G3 CXX and they did have a issue with key clicks which wiped out 160 meters at the time I did not appreciate or understand what was happening put it down to my Rx being overloaded.
Maybe worth investing in a 360 degree camera when out filming this kind of content. You can display on youtube and facebook allowing us to explore for ourselves these treasure troves. I was introduced to radio ham back in the late 70's through my mates dad, who is no longer with us. My first encounter of radio comms was with a handheld transmitter. My mate was also a Radio ham and we both sat at the top of a sand dune, whilst his dad and the dog ran for what seemed miles. Everynow and then we would call him can you hear us, he would raise his arm and wave. In the end we had to sight him with an old pair of binoculars. Ah the good old days.
I wish I had been able to get involved with radio in this heyday. In the days before mobile phones and the internet, it must have been fascinating to use the technology. That time capsule you visited looks super interesting. It looks quite derelict but I'm guessing still inside a secure area as no mindless vandalism thankfully.
This is a prime example of what I’ve been saying for a long time we’re pissing away the technology given to us this video is a prime example what happens when the internets gone or you’re ran by a dictator Weapon most used in any conflict communications and don’t you just wanna reach out and talk to somebody
I’ve always been fascinated by radio. I’ve got a VHF in my boat for emergencies. But how would you guide someone if they wanted to start radio / scanning as a hobby? How to start and what to buy?
The letter shown at 5:30 was written on my 1st birthday! Incredible amounts of info, and your research is appreciated Lewis, love this content, well done matey!
Hello Louis, Thank you for the interesting video in your segment about a radio amateur from the town of Barrow in Furness, his call sign G3LHD. I wonder if can find anything about him. I am not a member of the local radio club Barrow in Furness. Back Summer of 1913, it calls sign RXY. Back in the summer of 2013, put on a special call sign GB100RXY rum by a local Radio club on market street, the same address as the original club station. I do hold the call sign MORXY only for a contest or portable stations looking forward to the next video
, the University of Kentucky in Lexington held a W4 two letter call wait someone will remember exactly. The station was managed and the club was sponsored by a technician grade worker for the university and specifically the engineering department. I think his name may have been spelled McGouan. I enjoyed the shack because it had an army surplus BC-610 transmitter which was wired up as a linear amplifier, maybe not too linear. I was the only club member who would dare stretch his arm and hand down inside the transmitter through an upper hatch and change the plugin fan coil which set the frequency for different bands. Because the military had reserved the ham bands which were mathematically multiples in frequency hey band switching device was more easy to produce later. I think the club also had a National 300 receiver which was multitube and produce great results, it was band switching and when the bands were changed with a knob on the front the band spread dial was also changed and they lighted window in the front panel. The main tuning knob was extra large almost three inches across. Maybe the BC-610 was also the shack transmitter. 20 or more floors above was the antenna array on the roof of the engineering building. I think at first they were all wire antennas. However sometime around 1965 McGuhan, remember, was not of faculty rank was nevertheless given the job of designing the electric and electronic part of a new building of engineering to be constructed. That's sponsor specified that the ham shack would be a room on about the third from the top of the building and the room would be totally shielded top bottom and all sides to such an extent that you could walk in with a portable radio and have a strong signal drop completely out as you entered the shack room. This was likely a very expensive room which were justified because it kept the hams from interfering with surrounding laboratories at that floor level. The sponsor of the radio club as designer of the electric and electronic parts of the building had a dedicated enclosed duckwork run from above the shack to a dog house custom made on the roof. The roof was about 20 stories up. There was a shorter tower with a directional beam type antenna and rotor, the feed line and control line ran down the ductwork to the shack. I think a Kenwood transceiver had come to the shack somehow come on maybe through a gift, but the shack although well constructed and fit it out with a direct AC line from the room down to the basement feed system, the hams who collected on the campus by then were not so interested and there was little use of that spectacular room. I heard later that that whole engineering building had been torn down some 20 or 30 years later and replaced. The electrical engineer had been retired out of his position, I think and a ham radio faculty took over the sponsorship of the club which no longer had a shack on campus but borrowed a bit of space from that faculties not similar to this. The most the station could generate at that time was a big step downward from its shortwave capabilities earlier. The newly sponsored and constituted ham club got a little bit of specialty money allocated through student funding and was able to hack together a simple 2 meter repeater which the club station call sign evolved down to. The faculty sponsor held good meetings with the students who were interested but that reconstituted club was a shell of its heyday. In the heyday I delighted in using the NC300 and the strong signal the BBC 610 gave out. In the 1960s, I managed to afford a Drake TR3 sideband transceiver, one of the first. I installed that and the second floor room that I rented in our house that had no other hams but helpers that did help me string a trapped dipole wire antenna. I also got the Drake box that allowed me split operation and also to tune drifting AM transmitters from other hams on the frequency. A little later I got to work some DX and really begin to enjoy ham radio completely. Now sadly the hobby has gone downhill.
Hey you know this is quite interesting but you know one of our universities in Melbourne RMIT they actually have an FM broadcasting radio station called SYN student youth network
There’s one in Sydney. 2SER. I understand the transmitter is atop the UTS building in Ultimo. There are two studios. One is somewhere at UTS and the other is at Macquarie University. For some reason I ended up at the latter studio once. If my memory serves, they used an ISDN line from there back to Ultimo. Actually I’m not sure this station is strictly speaking a university station. More of an independent community station operated from two seperate universities.
I’m a younger person from the USA and really want to get into the hobby, but I don’t know where to start what equipment to get what radio waves or how much power to use. Am very confused but really want to start a pirate radio station
I was exposed to CB radio when I was very small in the 70's and it got me hooked. By 1994 I got my No Code Ham ticket, KB0OJU. Now I'm a General Class license K0CBS or Columbia Broadcasting System. Also was one of the last to complete the code test before it was ended. 😊
Yet again Lewis another fantastic video and the research you have done is greatly appreciated.You also mention the Codar AT-5 and I am so lucky to have one that is in perfect working order. 73.G7HFS/PA3IKH.
Lewis, you do such a great job with these historical presentations. Thanks.
I'm not particularly into radio, but it's the human interest that I enjoy, the names on those documents. The hours that were spent by enthusiasts creating this venture, the importance that it had for them and the relationships that it founded. These people moved on to other phases of their lives, some sadly probably not making it to the natural end, but in these points in time they were making their mark on history, a peoples' history.
In the 1980s I was involved with the University of Kent Amateur Radio Club (or was it a Society?) which operated as G3UKC (University of Kent at Canterbury) and G8KUC. I recall other stations active in those days were G5IC (Imperial College, London) and G8IUB (University of Birmingham). The station was well-sited on high ground above Canterbury with a telescopic tower and at one point a 4-yagi array on 144 MHz. A fall in interest in the hobby, plus redevelopment by the University eventually led to the station's demise. In more recent years I was a member of the Open University ARC, G0OUR, at Milton Keynes. This was still operational a couple of years ago but I'm uncertain of the current status.
Back in the late 90s I got the job of clearing the loft space of the old Caledonia Workshop on Mappin Street which had been used by the old University of Sheffield radio society. There wasn't any equipment up there but it was full of magazines , manuals and QSL cards from the 50s , 60s and 70s. It was all a sad little time capsule which went into the skip when the building was demolished.
You should have save the QSL cards.
I’m 22 and amateur radio appeals to me and I try and help where I can, still yet to get my license
Go for it Reece...Its a fantastic hobby.
73.G7HFS/PA3IKH
you have done well to find all this considering it is not on the internet
I was a 1968 graduate of NYU's the University Heights campus in the
Bronx, NYC, which had an amateur
club station there, W2DSC. When
I was back there last in 1973, after
I had been in the US Air Force, the
Campus was sold and became
Bronx Community College, with
the current NYU located in downtown
Manhattan today. 73 de W2CH Ray.
Despite radio being in its prime 60 years ago or so I still class clubs like this as continuous pioneers of the hobby....well done Lewis keep digging m8
In my area of Southern Oregon it is very common to this day for people to have CB radios And of course many of our truckers Still use CB radios. Old school yep that they work. Blessings to you all coming at you from the hills of Southern Oregon
10:43 Broadcasting... Broadcasting yourself never changes...
Whether it's amateur radio operators in 1974, or Twitch streamers in 2022, everyone appreciates T.I.T.S.
I enjoy these series Lewis, and was pleasantly surprised to see the callsign of Dick, G3XVF in the top band contest log at the beginning.
Dick was a very good friend of mine during the 70’s and 80’s when I lived in Norwich. Thanks for posting this, 73, Colin G4MQK
I wish I could get into amateur/ham radio. I did when I was young, too. But it's far too expensive for me to afford the equipment alone.
I half expected to see myself (G3ZVT) in the topband CW contest log at 1:52, but my licence was issued nine days later than the page shown!
I love the way G3CXX refers to radio amateurs as "licenced transmitters" in much the same way as typists were called "Type Writers" in Victorian and Edwardian times. I imagine he was using whatever terminology he felt his correspondent would understand.
Another great video, but it would be good to know who has preserved all these documents.
Thanks Lewis, the usual very well presented and informative video, many thanks again.
Once lived not far from G3 CXX and they did have a issue with key clicks which wiped out 160 meters at the time I did not appreciate or understand what was happening put it down to my Rx being overloaded.
Maybe worth investing in a 360 degree camera when out filming this kind of content. You can display on youtube and facebook allowing us to explore for ourselves these treasure troves. I was introduced to radio ham back in the late 70's through my mates dad, who is no longer with us. My first encounter of radio comms was with a handheld transmitter. My mate was also a Radio ham and we both sat at the top of a sand dune, whilst his dad and the dog ran for what seemed miles. Everynow and then we would call him can you hear us, he would raise his arm and wave. In the end we had to sight him with an old pair of binoculars. Ah the good old days.
I wish I had been able to get involved with radio in this heyday. In the days before mobile phones and the internet, it must have been fascinating to use the technology. That time capsule you visited looks super interesting. It looks quite derelict but I'm guessing still inside a secure area as no mindless vandalism thankfully.
This is a prime example of what I’ve been saying for a long time we’re pissing away the technology given to us this video is a prime example what happens when the internets gone or you’re ran by a dictator Weapon most used in any conflict communications and don’t you just wanna reach out and talk to somebody
It's great to see more on this. It would be lovely if those antennas could see some life again.
73 M7TUD
It’d be good to operate from there, perhaps as a special event station. Happy to help out.
I’ve always been fascinated by radio. I’ve got a VHF in my boat for emergencies. But how would you guide someone if they wanted to start radio / scanning as a hobby? How to start and what to buy?
The letter shown at 5:30 was written on my 1st birthday! Incredible amounts of info, and your research is appreciated Lewis, love this content, well done matey!
Ya, I looked at those dates too. I thought, shit, I was three years old. LoL
Hello Louis, Thank you for the interesting video in your segment about a radio amateur from the town of Barrow in Furness, his call sign G3LHD. I wonder if can find anything about him. I am not a member of the local radio club Barrow in Furness. Back Summer of 1913, it calls sign RXY. Back in the summer of 2013, put on a special call sign GB100RXY rum by a local Radio club on market street, the same address as the original club station. I do hold the call sign MORXY only for a contest or portable stations looking forward to the next video
Great piece of history Lewis, many thanks. G4OWW. …..
, the University of Kentucky in Lexington held a W4 two letter call wait someone will remember exactly. The station was managed and the club was sponsored by a technician grade worker for the university and specifically the engineering department. I think his name may have been spelled McGouan. I enjoyed the shack because it had an army surplus BC-610 transmitter which was wired up as a linear amplifier, maybe not too linear. I was the only club member who would dare stretch his arm and hand down inside the transmitter through an upper hatch and change the plugin fan coil which set the frequency for different bands. Because the military had reserved the ham bands which were mathematically multiples in frequency hey band switching device was more easy to produce later. I think the club also had a National 300 receiver which was multitube and produce great results, it was band switching and when the bands were changed with a knob on the front the band spread dial was also changed and they lighted window in the front panel. The main tuning knob was extra large almost three inches across. Maybe the BC-610 was also the shack transmitter. 20 or more floors above was the antenna array on the roof of the engineering building. I think at first they were all wire antennas. However sometime around 1965 McGuhan, remember, was not of faculty rank was nevertheless given the job of designing the electric and electronic part of a new building of engineering to be constructed. That's sponsor specified that the ham shack would be a room on about the third from the top of the building and the room would be totally shielded top bottom and all sides to such an extent that you could walk in with a portable radio and have a strong signal drop completely out as you entered the shack room.
This was likely a very expensive room which were justified because it kept the hams from interfering with surrounding laboratories at that floor level. The sponsor of the radio club as designer of the electric and electronic parts of the building had a dedicated enclosed duckwork run from above the shack to a dog house custom made on the roof. The roof was about 20 stories up. There was a shorter tower with a directional beam type antenna and rotor, the feed line and control line ran down the ductwork to the shack. I think a Kenwood transceiver had come to the shack somehow come on maybe through a gift, but the shack although well constructed and fit it out with a direct AC line from the room down to the basement feed system, the hams who collected on the campus by then were not so interested and there was little use of that spectacular room. I heard later that that whole engineering building had been torn down some 20 or 30 years later and replaced. The electrical engineer had been retired out of his position, I think and a ham radio faculty took over the sponsorship of the club which no longer had a shack on campus but borrowed a bit of space from that faculties not similar to this. The most the station could generate at that time was a big step downward from its shortwave capabilities earlier. The newly sponsored and constituted ham club got a little bit of specialty money allocated through student funding and was able to hack together a simple 2 meter repeater which the club station call sign evolved down to. The faculty sponsor held good meetings with the students who were interested but that reconstituted club was a shell of its heyday.
In the heyday I delighted in using the NC300 and the strong signal the BBC 610 gave out. In the 1960s, I managed to afford a Drake TR3 sideband transceiver, one of the first. I installed that and the second floor room that I rented in our house that had no other hams but helpers that did help me string a trapped dipole wire antenna. I also got the Drake box that allowed me split operation and also to tune drifting AM transmitters from other hams on the frequency. A little later I got to work some DX and really begin to enjoy ham radio completely. Now sadly the hobby has gone downhill.
Hey you know this is quite interesting but you know one of our universities in Melbourne RMIT they actually have an FM broadcasting radio station called SYN student youth network
There’s one in Sydney. 2SER. I understand the transmitter is atop the UTS building in Ultimo. There are two studios. One is somewhere at UTS and the other is at Macquarie University. For some reason I ended up at the latter studio once. If my memory serves, they used an ISDN line from there back to Ultimo. Actually I’m not sure this station is strictly speaking a university station. More of an independent community station operated from two seperate universities.
Superb job Lewis
I’m a younger person from the USA and really want to get into the hobby, but I don’t know where to start what equipment to get what radio waves or how much power to use. Am very confused but really want to start a pirate radio station
Very interesting as always
So Amateur radio it’s not a dead thing it’s just changed RMIT in the city in Melbourne has a full functioning full powered FM radio station
I think it's all about things like wifi, blue tooth, war driving etc.
@RingwayManchester >>> Great video...👍
Good Video Lewis cheers Techno Nuns 6:19
Thanks again
Another interesting story Lewis
Fantastic.
Maybe the decline due to way to many restrictions now days?
good thing about radio dont need network connection just good antenna etc..
Ham radio is still popular.
I didn’t say it wasn’t
I love your video so much
Please can you more info about J D SHANKS G3LHD
I dig this
Thanks for your video sv1hfs 73
Very cool
cb radio is the first social media.
For some yes
I was exposed to CB radio when I was very small in the 70's and it got me hooked. By 1994 I got my No Code Ham ticket, KB0OJU. Now I'm a General Class license K0CBS or Columbia Broadcasting System. Also was one of the last to complete the code test before it was ended. 😊
same
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Yet again Lewis another fantastic video and the research you have done is greatly appreciated.You also mention the Codar AT-5 and I am so lucky to have one that is in perfect working order.
73.G7HFS/PA3IKH.
It seems a bit harsh to have disqualified G3CXX over the clicks!!!