Amateur Radio History

Amateur Radio: AWonderful "Playground"

• Origins during late 1800's
• Attracted lay/technical people
• Government support/regulation ~1911. "200 Meters and down"
• International Conference in 1906, 27 nations signed a protocol. Officialized the word "radio".
• Commercial broadcasting/messaging conflicts
• 1913 Armstrong (an amateur) discovers regenerative feedback
• military
• first national digital network
• "Discovery" of ShortWave (below 200 Meters/above 1.5 MHz)