Radio Times at Loughborough cont..
Broadcasting from the 20s to the 40s
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- 1920 Drawing of a ‘Frame Aerial’ Loughborough College Wireless Society
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- 1921 Detail of position of mast over town building
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- 1921 the Wireless Receiving Room (The Limit magazine)
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- July 1922 Frank Pamment on Wireless Society (from The Limit)
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- 1925 Cartoon based on the wireless masts on the playing fields poking fun at Schofield’s Loughborough publicity campaign
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- 1946 plan by Bill Pegg (student and later lecturer in Civil Eng) of radio station on playing fields
Chris Walker, Loughborough Amateur Radio Club (call sign G1ETZ) comments on Frequency bands:
‘The typical bands used in early transmitting were 100 (3,000kHz), 200 (1,500kHz), 300 (1,000kHz), 500 (600kHz), 600 (500kHz) and 850 (353kHz) metres. The most common one was 200 meters, these would have been spark gap transmitters. In the mid 1920’s spark gap transmitters were prohibited from new amateur bands 80,40,20 and 5 meters.
Also amateurs found that long wave transmissions around 200 metres worked best for Transatlantic communication at that time.’