The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-03-15
AMATEUR WIRELESS OPERATORS
INVITED By JOURNAL TO ENTER
GREAT NATIONAL RADIO CONTEST
Boys Given Opportunity to OBJ
tain Fun, Fame and Cash by
Taking Part in Contest
FIFTY-SEVEN PRIZES
In addition to Nine Cash Prizes
O>ntestants Will Receive
Radio Receiving Sets.
FIFTY-SEvEN PRIZES
later wireless operators OF West

AmateE wireless operators OF West
lFlorida
Money, f.n and fame await you'll
| One thousand dollars in prizes for
you to strive for in the greatest ma
tional contest eyer conducted for anna !
teurs!
/ The national centest is fostered and
conducted by helNewspaper Enter
prise Association of which the Journal
and $50 other newspapers are mem-
bers.
| The nine West Florida amateur radio
operators with the best chance TO win
prizes will be selected aud entered in
the national contest by The Journal.
Three contestants from each district
are permitted to enter each of III
three events in the national finals
! There are 100000 amateur wirele
operators in the United States.
1.-TWO years during the war governm
restrictions put them out of busin
| It is now just a year since the al
nouncement that the ban was to
raised.
| Thousands of wireless stations wAs
then re-assembled and the ether now is
filled with wireless messages.
The American amateur radio oper-
ator played a vital part in the World
War. Prior to the war he had been
more active than the commercial and
professional operators in developing
one of the most fascinating and useful
inventions of modern times.
The amateurs performances in the
last year--the first year of his free
dom since the WARFARE believed to
have surpassed all previous opera
tions.
| So the Newspaper Enterprise Asso-
citation, through the papers it serves
| throughout the country, offers the ma
TONS 5000 amateur radio operators
a chance to win $1,000 worth of prizes
in the greatest contest of its kind ever
staged.
| Judges Are Experts.
To insure the contest being a fair
/ test for all wireless amateurs three OF
Americas best qualified radio experts
have helped to arrange the tests and
have agreed to act as judges. They
are:
DIR. Lee De Forest. of New York
Famous invention of wireless telegraph
devices and member of the Institute
of Radio Engineers. He has designed
many types of commercial and expert
mental apparatus. His audion d-tec-
tor patents are among most rciuA.
able of American inventions aac we're
!; instrumental in bringing wireless te-
Biography and telephony TO its present
state of perfection.
| Elmer E. Bucher. of New York-The
instructing engineer of the Marcopi
Wireless Telegraph Co. He is :, mem
ber of the Institute of Radio Enginee.s
and dean of one of the largest w.r.l -
schools in the world. He is an assoc
ciate editor of the Wireless Age. His
i books on wireless are among the most
| widely read. Every amateur knows
| of Bucher and will respect his judge
ment.
Joseph S. Newman, of Cleveland
| Is a writer of science for boys He
| is a member of the Institute IF RADIO
Engineers and the originator of r.yeYai
nationally known wireless devices. lie
| is a keen. student of boys AL tnei-
hobbies and his understanding of them
makes him well fitted to act as judge
in this greatest of all wireless con-
| tests.
Rules of Big Contest.
Read them carefully SO as TO run no
risk of disqualifying yourself in this
biggest and best of all radio contests.
| I. Any owner, or part owner, of an
amateur radio station or any member
| of an amateur radio club which owns
an amateur station, is eligible in this
| contest
.. All manuscripts must be neatly
written in ink or typewritten. on one
side of the paper only.
g. Manuscripts or photographs cam
not be returned to the sender.
| 4. The contest will consist OF three
separate events Each contestant may
enter one, two or three events.
/ 5. The contest opens Immediately
| and closes in each city on March 81
No entries, for any event. received oy
The Journal after March 81 viii be
considered. Judging in the national
contest will begin 1e days later on
| April 10
s. No commercial operator Wii pe
considered legal contestant
+. The list OF prizes will be found on
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