• The year 1909 in radio contained a number of significant events. 18 March – Einar Dessau uses a shortwave radio transmitter in Denmark. Charles Herrold...
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  • of 1909 is signed in Bangkok. March 18 – Einar Dessau uses a shortwave radio transmitter in Denmark. March 21 – The remains of the Báb are placed in the...
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  • The year 1909 in film involved some significant events. Carl Laemmle founds the Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP). Selig Polyscope Company establish...
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  • opening decade of the 20th century—for example, in 1909, Robert A. Morton reported overhearing an amateur radio transmission which included the comment: "Say...
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    Ferdinand Braun shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy". During radio's first two decades,...
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    Arend Hauer (category 1909 births)
    Hauer (14 September 1909 – 27 January 1985) was a Dutch actor and drama teacher who appeared in several stage, television and radio dramas. He was the...
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    Everett Sloane (category 1909 births)
    (October 1, 1909 – August 6, 1965) was an American character actor who worked in radio, theatre, films, and television. Sloane was born in Manhattan on...
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    Amateur radio, also known as ham radio, is the use of the radio frequency spectrum for purposes of non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation...
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  • John Steadman (actor) (category 1909 births)
    John Steadman (July 20, 1909 – January 28, 1993) was an American actor, radio personality and editor. Steadman was a former radio personality who became...
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    remember. SOS, when it was first agreed upon by the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in 1906, was merely a distinctive Morse code sequence and was...
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    A foxhole radio is a makeshift radio that was built by soldiers in World War II for entertainment, to listen to local radio stations using amplitude modulation...
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    first practical radio transmitters and receivers around 1894–1895. He received the 1909 Nobel Prize in physics for his radio work. Radio communication began...
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    audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio station, while in satellite radio the radio waves are...
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    of radio communication was preceded by many decades of establishing theoretical underpinnings, discovery and experimental investigation of radio waves...
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    Q code (redirect from QNB (amateur radio))
    1909. 1912 London International Radiotelegraphic Convention. 8 May 1913. "List of Q-codes". "A resource for Morse Code operation in the amateur radio...
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    Olan Soule (category 1909 births)
    Soule (February 28, 1909[citation needed] – February 1, 1994) was an American actor, who had professional credits in nearly 7,000 radio shows and commercials...
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  • The year 1909 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. August 20 – Dwarf planet Pluto is photographed for the first time...
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    Guglielmo Marconi (category European amateur radio operators)
    practical radio wave–based wireless telegraph system. This led to Marconi being credited as the inventor of radio, and winning the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics...
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    The first significant marine rescue due to radio was the 1909 sinking of the luxury liner RMS Republic, in which 1,500 lives were saved. This and the...
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    addresses of radio stations in a given jurisdiction (country). Modern Electrics published the first callbook in the United States in 1909. Today, the primary...
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  • W. R. Rodgers (category 1909 births)
    William Robert Rodgers (1909–1969), known as Bertie, and born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, was probably best known as a poet, but was also a prose essayist...
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  • inventions in what became radio. Radio development began as "wireless telegraphy". Later radio history increasingly involves matters of broadcasting. In an 1864...
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  • ap Ieuan). Ieuan Williams (1909–64), Welsh cricketer – wicketkeeper for Glamorgan. Ieuan Rhys Williams (1909–1973), radio and actor. Ieuan Wyn Pritchard...
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    Henryk Magnuski (category 1909 births)
    Walkie-Talkie radios, the Motorola SCR-300, and influenced the company's success in the field of radio communication. Magnuski was born on January 30, 1909, in Warsaw...
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  • This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1909. 1909 in Norwegian music 1909 in jazz January 25 – Richard Strauss's opera Elektra...
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    23 February 1909. She was launched on 28 October 1909 and was completed on 24 February 1911. Upon commissioning, Indefatigable served in the 1st Cruiser...
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  • Robert Beatty (category 1909 births)
    October 1909 – 3 March 1992) was a Canadian actor who worked in film, television and radio for most of his career and was especially known in the UK....
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  • "mechanical rather than imaginative". "Born in New York City, Robert Newman (1909–1988) was among the pioneers of early radio and was chief writer for the Inner...
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    "'I was the world's first radio disc jockey' (in 1909)." Rebroadcast on the Game Show Network on 22 May 2008. Bay Area Radio Museum. "Doc Herrold and Ray...
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  • radio services, especially amateur radio. Used since circa 1909. QN Signals, published by the ARRL and used by Amateur radio operators to assist in the...
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