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Telegraph Station - WB4YZA
Station Location - Granite Falls, NC
Chief Operator - Scott Hedspeth
Licensed Since - October 26, 1976
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To N4BDI - My Dad, my mentor & my best friend, Thank You
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"Puerto Rico, beautiful jewel! When you are linked with the other
jewels of the Antilles in the necklace of the world's telegraph,
yours will not shine less brilliantly in the crown of your Queen!"
Samuel F. B. Morse - Arroyo, PR - 1859 March 01
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CALDWELL COUNTY (NC) TELEGRAPH STATIONS
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Collettsville Carolina & North-Western Railway
Edgemont Caldwell & Northern Railroad
Granite Falls Carolina & North-Western Railway
Western Union Telegraph Company
Hudson Carolina & North-Western Railway
Lenoir Caldwell & Northern Railroad
Carolina & North-Western Railway
Lenoir & Blowing Rock Telegraph Company (1888)
Western Union Telegraph Company
Southern Express Company
Mortimer Caldwell & Northern Railroad
Patterson Lenoir & Blowing Rock Telegraph Company
Western Union Telegraph Company
Rhodhiss Carolina & North-Western Railway
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CALDWELL COUNTY (NC) CSA POST OFFICES (1861-1865)
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Buck Shoals Catawba View Collettsville
Copenhagen Deal's Mill Fort Defiance
Globe Hazel Dell Kings Creek
Lenoir Lovelady (Granite Falls) Patterson
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EARLY WIRELESS 'SPARK' STATIONS (1904-1912)
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HA Cape Hatteras, NC De Forest Co
HV Havana, Cuba De Forest Co
QS Pivers Island, NC US Navy
QX St Augustine, FL US Navy
RA Jupiter Inlet, FL US Navy
RD Key West, FL US Navy
RF Dry Tortugas, FL US Navy
SA San Juan, PR US Navy
SD Culebra, WI US Navy
US Swan Islands United Fruit Co
CG Cullowhee, NC George Cox
SI Lenoir, NC V S Ivey
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CEIBA & ROOSEVELT ROADS, PUERTO RICO
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BIT Bureau of Insular Telegraph (1905)
Landline telegraph office opened
WKK Bureau of Insular Telegraph (1922)
300, 600, 1610m (1000, 500, 186kc)
Linked with WGW on Vieques
NRR 264kc Naval Base NDB
AFRTS 1200kc Armed Forces Radio & Television Service
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COQUI 2 - 1.5V / 1AD 40m CW TRANSMITTER
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+-------*-----> +1.5V
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18K 1OuH
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*-[7mc]-*--220p--*--1uH--*--> 50 Ohm
| | | | 3-5 mW
| C 470p 470p
+------B | |
E --- ---
2N706 | - -
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COQUITO - 1.5V / 1AD 40m CW RECEIVER
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| +---*---*---100---1K---> +1.5V
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| 100K | |
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| | [7mc] *---*--1N34--*---*---+
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| | | C | | | |
+-30p-*---*--B 120p 0.01 47K O
E | | | )Xtal
2N3904 | | | | O
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- - - - -
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AUDION - 1.5V / 1AD SHORTWAVE RECEIVER
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----- STATIONS HEARD
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| Radio Habana
|/ Radio Romania
30p Radio Ext de Espana
/| Radio New Zealand (*)
| +----*---------+ Radio Australia (*)
*-----+ | | | Caribbean Beacon
| | | | O WBCQ - Maine
| O 100K *----+ )64R WTWW - Tennessee
|/ O | | | O WRNO - Louisiana
75p O + | C | |+ WWCR - Tennessee
/| O<--10u---*---B 100n --- WHRI - South Carolina
| O E | - 1.5V WEWN - Alabama
| | | | | WRMI - Florida
+-----*--------------*----*----+ WINB - Pennsylvania
1.3" dia 2N3904 WWV - Colorado
21T (10uH) CHU - Canada
Tap up 20%
(*) from Tonopah, NV
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73 de Scott / WB4YZA
www.qsl.net/wb4yza
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