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St George's School.
As early as 1908 Phillip Morgan Parker, Class of 1913, and Bradford Norman Jr., Class of 1914 were experimenting with wireless.
Wireless School Notes
Dragon
November 1908
Wireless School Notes
Dragon
March 1909
Wireless School Notes
Dragon
February 1910
Even before there was an official record of a Radio Club at St George's school, there was a listings for the call sign NB in the
First Annual Official Wireless Blue Book of the Wireless Association of America, 1909
and then again in the
Modern Electrics February, 1909
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First Annual Official Wireless Blue Book
of the
Wireless Association of America, 1909
Modern Electrics February 1909
The first record of an official radio club at St. George's School appeared in the 1922 edition of the school's yearbook.
The Lance
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St George's Yearbook, "
The Lance
, 1922"
The club, with the help of a Master, built a house to facilitate their sets and worth while aerials.
One of their first accomplishments was to receive the Darthmouth-Columbia and Harvard-Yale games and playing them through a loud speaker in the gymnasium.
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This had to be one of the earliest sporting events received and played for an audience in the state.
In 1923 the club installed a new transmitting and receiving set that enabled them to send and receive messages with a 12,000 mile range.
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1924 QSL
Wireless Age February, 923
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1925 QSL
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1930 QSL
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The Lance
, 1931
In 1938, we see two amateurs causing havoc with some of the local radio reception and local sound system.
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The Lance
, 1940
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The Lance
, 1922
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The Dragon
, December 1922
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The Dragon
, January 1923
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The Red and White
, November 2, 1938