Summary
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Pickard, Greenleaf Whittier, 1877-1956
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content: Greenleaf Pickard Notebooks and Nikola Tesla Patents
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content: Greenleaf Pickard Notebooks and Nikola Tesla Patents / Series 3: Miscellaneous
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1930s
container: label: Container
content: Box 5, Folder 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Data and graphs related to receiving stations in the 1930's including reports for June, July, August, September, October, November, and December 1933 written by Howell C. Brown entitled "KPO 680 kc, San Francisco, Obs., at Pasadena, 549 kms." Several stations had Amateur Radio Call Signs beginning with the letter W, but calls signs with the suffix "X" were reserved by the FCC for experimental stations. 1BCG (Amateur Station built by members of the Radio Club of America) sent the first message to span the Atlantic to Ardrossan, Scotland.