{"id":4712,"date":"2021-08-25T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/08\/25\/video-e-howard-armstrong-and-early-radio\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:04:36","slug":"video-e-howard-armstrong-and-early-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/08\/25\/video-e-howard-armstrong-and-early-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Video:  E. Howard Armstrong and Early Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SXcrEPs8P0s?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>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 &#8212; it contains a lot of pictures I hadn&#8217;t seen before and audio of Howard Armstrong. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I never knew that the name of the radio company Zenith was derived from the early callsign &#8220;9ZN.&#8221; <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>As a Northern Virginian, I like the reference to NAA Arlington. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I used to live near Yonkers, N.Y. I remember Warburton Ave. What a fine shack young Howard had up in that cupola attic. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>The photo of Armstrong&#8217;s breadboard was very nice. My Mythbuster is in good company.<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>QRPers will get a kick out of the newspaper headline &#8220;New Radio Marvel Revealed!&#8221; (They cut the power out from 20kW to 5 watts!) <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Thanks again to Dave Bamford W2DAB for sending me the book about Armstrong, &#8220;Man of High Fidelity&#8221; by Lawrence Lessing. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Finally, I remember talking to Bruce Kelley W2ICE at hamfests. He was a great radio amateur: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qcwa.org\/w2ice-01351-sk.htm\">https:\/\/www.qcwa.org\/w2ice-01351-sk.htm<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/w1aw-bulletins-archive\/ARLX020\/1997\"><b>http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/w1aw-bulletins-archive\/ARLX020\/1997<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Be sure to check out the Antique Wireless Museum&#8217;s YouTube Channel. Lots of good stuff there: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCX55peBhzeX1qps_VYXdLBA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCX55peBhzeX1qps_VYXdLBA<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/CaptainE.HowardArmstrong.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"717\" data-original-width=\"761\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/CaptainE.HowardArmstrong.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b>We have the famous photo of Major Armstrong,<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b> but this is the first one I&#8217;ve seen of a slightly younger Captain E. Howard Armstrong. <\/b><\/div>\n<p><b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8212; it contains a lot of pictures I hadn&#8217;t seen before and audio of Howard Armstrong. I never knew that the name of the radio company Zenith was derived from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/08\/25\/video-e-howard-armstrong-and-early-radio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Video:  E. 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