9XM Talking: WHA Radio and the Wisconsin Idea

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Prologue: Voices through the Air 1. Shurick, First Quarter Century of American Broadcasting. 2. David L. Woods, “Semantics versus the ‘First’ Broadcasting Station,” Journal of Broadcasting, Summer 1967, 199. 3. G. C. B. Rowe, “Broadcasting in 1912,” Radio News, June 1925, 2219, cited in Thomas White, United States Early Radio History, http://earlyradiohistory.us. 4. Archer, History of Radio to 1926, 55. 5. Barnouw, History of Broadcasting, 1:10–15; “Guglielmo Marconi, 1874–1937,” Ballycastle, www.northantrim.com/Marconi.htm. 6. Archer, History of Radio to 1926, 92–93. 7. Fessenden, Fessenden: Builder of Tomorrows, 153. 8. Harkness, Higgins, Rideout, and Skiles, Electrical Engineering, 36. Chapter 1. Early Wireless Experiments at the University of Wisconsin 1. de Anguera, Ethereal Messages, 6. 2. U.S. Navy, Bureau of Equipment, List of Wireless Telegraph Stations of the World, corrected to September 1, 1909 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909). 3. L. R. Ingersoll, “Earle Melvin Terry, 1879–1929,” Wisconsin Alumni, May 1929, 255. 4. Penn, “Earle Melvin Terry, Father of Educational Radio,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, Summer 1961, 253. 5. Lloyd L. Call to Penn, April 24, 1947, Penn Papers. 6. C. T. Schrage to Penn, September 18, 1946, Penn Papers. 7. Arthur H. Ford to M. C. Beebe, December 30, 1915, WHA Radio and Television Records. 343 Notes Chapter 2. Early Broadcasts from 9XM 1. Baker, Farm Broadcasting, 5–6. 2. Michael Friedewald, “Beginnings of Radio Communication in Germany,” Journal of Radio Studies, Winter 2000, 458. 3. Wisconsin State Journal, March 6, 1916, 2. 4. Press Bulletin, March 15, 1916. 5. Wisconsin State Journal, June 19, 1916, 4. 6. L. Hanson, Story of Malcolm Hanson, 49. 7. Daily Cardinal, November 18, 1916, 11. 8. Penn, “Origin and Development of Radio Broadcasting,” 74. 9. Michael Penn, “Tuning in to a Legacy,” On Wisconsin, Fall 1998, 37. 10. E. B. Calvert, “History of Radio in Relation the Work of the Weather Bureau,” Monthly Weather Review 51, no. 1 (January 1923): 1. 11. Ibid. 12. Frost, Education’s Own Stations, 237. 13. Ibid., 233. 14. Miller to U.S. Weather Bureau, September 30, 1915, McCarty Papers. 15. E. Miller, letter to the editor, Milwaukee Journal, December 4, 1916 (copy), WHA Radio and Television Records. 16. New York Times, December 11, 1916, 5. 17. Calvert, “History of Radio,” 1. 18. Kenneth Gapen, “Pioneering in Educational Broadcasting,” Wisconsin Alumni, May 1932, 241. 19. Penn, “Origin and Development of Radio Broadcasting,” 77–81. 20. Mrs. I. F. Thompson to H. B. McCarty, May 2, 1949, Penn Papers. 21. Malcolm Hanson to Andrew Hopkins, June 17, 1931, bound in Gapen, “Agricultural Broadcasting.” 22. Penn, “Origin and Development of Radio Broadcasting,” 110. 23. “Radio News from Wisconsin,” Education by Radio, November 22, 1934, 54–55. 24. Stanley Rutter Manning, “Reminiscences,” 2–5, quoted in Barnouw, History of Broadcasting, 1:30. 25. Norman Michie, “Tuning In,” Radio Guide, Wisconsin Public Radio, September 1983, 13. 26. Radio Service Bulletin, March 1, 1917, 27. 27. Howard to Terry, March 8, 1917, WHA Radio and Television Records. Chapter 3. Wartime Radio Experiments at the University of Wisconsin 1. Taussig, Book of Radio, 191–202, cited in Thomas White, United States Early Radio History, http://earlyradiohistory.us. 344 Notes to pages 13–22 2. Elizabeth McLeod, posting to old.time.radio@broadcast.airwaves.com, a listserv (July 8, 1998). 3. Dillon to 9XM, April 7, 1917, WHA Radio and Television Records. 4. Frost, Education’s Own Stations, 368. 3XJ was notable because its experimental license from the Department of Commerce carried the serial number 1, the first such license issued after the passage of the Radio Act of 1912. 5. Daily Cardinal, May 15, 1917, 8. 6. Dillon to Terry, April 26, 1917, WHA Radio and Television Records. 7. Taylor to Van Hise, May 8, 1917, Van Hise Papers. 8. Hise to Taylor, May 9, 1917 (copy), Van Hise Papers. 9. A. Hoyt Taylor, “Short Wave Reception and Transmission on Ground Wires, Submarine and Subterranean,” Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, August 1919, 351, quoted in Penn, “Origin and Development of Radio Broadcasting,” 95. 10. Frost, Education’s Own Stations, 263. 11. M. Hanson to Lida Hanson, May 15, 1917 (English translation from Danish), Hanson Papers. 12. M. Hanson to L. Hanson, April 21, 1917 (English translation from Danish), Hanson Papers. 13. M. Hanson to L. Hanson, August 28, 1917 (English translation from Danish), Hanson Papers. 14. M. Hanson to L. Hanson, October 18, 1917 (English translation from Danish...