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HISTORY WITH A KICK AWESOME HEADLINES!!!
DIR By: K4KGP
Date: September 29, 2020, 3:58 pm
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First radio amateur
Around the turn of the19th / 20th century, wireless was totally
unregulated. Even scientists were struggling with how it worked
and what it could be used for. As a result, unlike today, no
licenses were required. Anyone could build a transmitter and
receiver and experiment.
In view of this freedom, people started to build their own
equipment and experiment.It is difficult to ascertain with exact
certainty who was the first radio amateur because no records
were generally taken.
However the first recorded "amateur radio" station could have
been that of M.J.C. Dennis in London, UK in 1898. He heard about
the experiments being conducted by Marconi and as a result he
set up his own station at Woolwich Arsenal in East London.
Dennis claimed that his was the first non-professional wireless
station in the world - and in this way he was the world's first
radio amateur. This claim appears not to have been challenged.
Later Dennis held the call DNX and afterwards he moved to Eire.
Here he held the call EI2B and was reputed to also have been the
first Irish amateur radio station. He also became the first
president of the Irish Radio Transmitters' Society, IRTS. :D :D
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