1922 Yearbook
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1922 Yearbook
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The Ambrosian
SPARKS FROM THE RADIO ROOM
The world was first awakened with a jolt to the existence and possibilities of radio
when the steamers Florida and Republic collided on a dark foggy night way out in
mid-ocean. That was back in 1910.
The crude, crackling spark from Operator Jack Binns sent out the first SOS
call for help. Out into the night the message sped, and wonderful to tell, was caught
and answered by another ship. It was the miracle of the day.
That seems ages ago to the modern radio fan. The science and art has traveled in
three-league boots. Today a hundred miles is nothing. The Iowa farmer using an
inexpensive apparatus catches the music from Pittsburgh or from Chicago or Detroit,
and the market and weather reports from the great financial centers. And not in the
cryptic dots and dashes of the telegraph but in the clear accents of the human voice.
The college station 9YAP was established before the war. The recent rapid improvements in the art made it inadvisable to install a radiophone transmitter, because
apparatus was hardly bought when it was already obsolete.
The present spark transmitter has a range of over 200 miles, and is designed for
radio telegraphic communication with other schools and colleges. It is being supplemented by an up-to-date phone transmitter of the latest and most approved type.
Our friends are always welcome to listen to the music from Chicago, Detroit,
Pittsburgh, or elsewhere at 9YAP.
One Hundred Six
SPARKS FROM THE RADIO ROOM
The world was first awakened with a jolt to the existence and possibilities of radio
when the steamers Florida and Republic collided on a dark foggy night way out in
mid-ocean. That was back in 1910.
The crude, crackling spark from Operator Jack Binns sent out the first SOS
call for help. Out into the night the message sped, and wonderful to tell, was caught
and answered by another ship. It was the miracle of the day.
That seems ages ago to the modern radio fan. The science and art has traveled in
three-league boots. Today a hundred miles is nothing. The Iowa farmer using an
inexpensive apparatus catches the music from Pittsburgh or from Chicago or Detroit,
and the market and weather reports from the great financial centers. And not in the
cryptic dots and dashes of the telegraph but in the clear accents of the human voice.
The college station 9YAP was established before the war. The recent rapid improvements in the art made it inadvisable to install a radiophone transmitter, because
apparatus was hardly bought when it was already obsolete.
The present spark transmitter has a range of over 200 miles, and is designed for
radio telegraphic communication with other schools and colleges. It is being supplemented by an up-to-date phone transmitter of the latest and most approved type.
Our friends are always welcome to listen to the music from Chicago, Detroit,
Pittsburgh, or elsewhere at 9YAP.
One Hundred Six
Date
1922
Rights
St. Ambrose University, 518 W. Locust St., Davenport, IA 52803
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