The early shortwave stations : a broadcasting history through 1945

2120 Pages·2013·31.061 MB·English

by  Berg, Jerome S.

The Early
Shortwave Stations
A Broadcasting History
Through 1945
Jerome S. Berg

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© 2013 Jerome S. Berg. All rights
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On the cover: QSL cards (courtesy
Committee to Preserve Radio
Verifications and author’s collection)
McFarland & Company, Inc.,
Publishers
Box 611, Jefferson, North Carolina
28640
www.mcfarlandpub.com
To Dr. Adrian M. Peterson,
keen explorer of long-forgotten corners
of the shortwave world,
and to P.V.
Contents
Preface
Glossary
1. Prelude to Shortwave
2. 1923–1929
3. 1930–1939
4. 1940–1945
Conclusion
Appendix: Nations and Stations
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
List of Names and Terms
Preface
This is the fourth, and final, volume in
the series on the history of shortwave
listening and shortwave broadcasting
that I have written and that has been
published by McFarland.
The first book, On the Short Waves,
1923–1945: Broadcast Listening in the
Pioneer Days of Radio, covered
shortwave listening and shortwave
broadcasting during the early years of
the medium, and included some basic
information about the stations. The story
was brought up to mid–2008 in the