page_title: Alfred J. Gross
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Alfred J. Gross / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: amateur radio FCC licence of Al Gross
context_page_description: Alfred J. Gross, a.k.a. Irving J. Gross was a pioneer in mobile wireless communication. He created and patented many communications devices, specifically in relation to an early version of the walkie-talkie, Citizens' Band radio, the telephone pager and the cordless telephone.
context_section_description: Gross was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1918, the son of Romanian-Jewish immigrants, he grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.
  His lifelong enthusiasm for radio was sparked at age nine, when traveling on Lake Erie by a steamboat. While sneaking around the boat he ended up in the radio transmissions room.  The ship's operator let him listen in on transmissions.  Later, Gross turned the basement of his house into a radio station, built from scavenged junkyard parts.
  At sixteen he earned his amateur radio license, and he used his call sign (W8PAL) his whole life.
caption: FCC amateur radio license of Al Gross
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