This is a really wonderful video. It might seem slow to those accustomed to faster-paced YouTube videos, but the information content is very high — it contains a lot of pictures I hadn’t seen before and audio of Howard Armstrong.
I never knew that the name of the radio company Zenith was derived from the early callsign “9ZN.”
As a Northern Virginian, I like the reference to NAA Arlington.
I used to live near Yonkers, N.Y. I remember Warburton Ave. What a fine shack young Howard had up in that cupola attic.
The photo of Armstrong’s breadboard was very nice. My Mythbuster is in good company.
QRPers will get a kick out of the newspaper headline “New Radio Marvel Revealed!” (They cut the power out from 20kW to 5 watts!)
Thanks again to Dave Bamford W2DAB for sending me the book about Armstrong, “Man of High Fidelity” by Lawrence Lessing.
Finally, I remember talking to Bruce Kelley W2ICE at hamfests. He was a great radio amateur:
Be sure to check out the Antique Wireless Museum’s YouTube Channel. Lots of good stuff there:
We have the famous photo of Major Armstrong,
but this is the first one I’ve seen of a slightly younger Captain E. Howard Armstrong.
World Radio History recently posted a book of articles about Armstrong: https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-Club-of-America/Legacies-of-Edwin-Howard-Armstong-1990-11-Radio-Club-of-America.pdf