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Books about radio history   Richard Rogers VK7RO 1993

	The Magic Spark   R.R.Walker   Hawthorn Press, Melbourne   1973
	Hobart library
	p10   1922   AWA to provide wireless services
	p20   List of broadcasting stations
	      7ZL   17/12/24   Associated Radio Company
		    19/7/27    Tasmanian Broadcasters
		    14/12/30   Australian Broadcasting Company
		    1/7/32     Australian Broadcasting Commission
	      7HO   13/8/30    Commercial Broadcasters
	      7LA   13/12/30   Findlay and Wills
	      7UV   6/8/32     became 7AD 9/3/40
	      7NT   3/8/35
	      7BU   19/10/35   Findlays
	      7HT   19/4/37    Metropolitan Broadcasters
	      7QT   29/5/37    West Coast Broadcasters
	      7EX   5/2/38     7EX P/L ?
	      7DY   26/3/38    became 7SD 26/7/54
	      7ZR   22/6/38
	      7QN   25/9/54    (ABC)
	I copied the acknowledgement page re sources

	The Seawatchers   The Story of Australia's Coast Radio Service
	Lawrence Durrant   Angus and Robertson, 1986
	Hobart Library Q 384.53 DUR
	p198 W.Watson first man to see Sputnik I
	I copied pages v re aknowledgement of sources
		       15-29 re early spark stations
		       & 202 with picture of Hobart station

	Taming the Tyrant  The First 100 years of Australian International
	Telecommunications   Edgar Harcourt   1987
	Hobart library   384.0994 HAR
	May 1906   Queenscliff - Devonport tests
	p186 Devonport photo   open 12 July
	I have a photo-copy of pages 186-192 re early wireless telegraphy

	Other books in Hobart Library
	Early Radio Wave Detectors - Phillips   621.38417
	Radios - The Golden Age - Collins   Q621.38418   photos of plastic sets
	70 Years of Radio Tubes and Valves   Q621.3841361

	Periodical names mentioned by Neville Williams in EA
	Sea, Land and Air   Jan 91 p47
	Australasian Wireless Review   Sep 90 p21
	Radio in Australia and New Zealand   Jan 91 p48
	Wireless Weekly

	Periodicals in University SciTech Library
	Wireless World 1930 -   30-39 weekly then monthly
	AWA Technical Review 1935 -
	BBC Engineering 1955 -
	RCA Review 1936 -
	GE Experimenter 1933 -
	Experimental Wireless and Wireless Engineer 1923 -
		good on early G stations
		Sept 24 p709 Amateur Wireless in Australia
		Mar 25 now official journal of RSGB
		Dec 24 p172 G - NZ QSO Z4AA 80M   G on 95M 105W
			G - Aus QSO 3BQ 75M
		May 25 40 & 20M   skip!
		Dec 25 p997 letter A2CM
	Alta Frequenza 1932 -
	Electronics 1930 -
	Proc IRE 1929 -

         Books in University SciTech Library
         History of Maritime Radio