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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor
December 19, 2003
Do you have access to 1000 channels and still can't find anything to watch? Here's the man who is responsible for your predicament.
 The Charles Francis Jenkins Television Station W3XK Web page reveals yet another pioneer of the electronic communication world. |
Hal Layer, KK6HY, has an eclectic Web site that covers a number of interesting topics, some related to radio, some not. One of the radio-related topics is "America's first television station." The Charles Francis Jenkins Television Station W3XK Web page is dedicated to the man who was America's first television pioneer.
The W3XK Web page briefly describes Jenkin's television work and documents his accomplishments via letters and QSL cards. There are also links to other Web pages where you can learn more about this prolific inventor, who holds patents for the automobile self-starter, radio navigation, paper milk carton technology, reversible propellers, time-lapse photography and the front-mounted automobile engine, among other things.
One of the pages at Hal's Web site that is not directly related to radio is Hal's Mind Machine Museum. Although the museum is not related to radio, you will likely find it interesting because it is related to the device you use to read this column, i.e., a computer. Hal collected vintage computers and his collection is on display in this virtual museum. If you remember names like "Scelbi," "Altair," and "IMSAI", you will become nostalgic when you view this page.
Thanks to Chris Nighswonger, KU4DD, and Rick Lindquist, N1RL, for suggesting this Web site to me.
Until next time, keep on surfin'
Editor's note: Stan
Horzepa, WA1LOU, has a collection of old Macintosh computers squirreled away in
various locations throughout his house. No matter how hard he tries, he just
cannot discard a computer. You can encourage Stan to dump his old Macs by
sending him e-mail addressed to wa1lou@arrl.net.
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