{"id":683,"date":"2020-12-29T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/12\/29\/ross-hull-and-clinton-desoto-ham-radio-and-r-c-planes\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:00:10","slug":"ross-hull-and-clinton-desoto-ham-radio-and-r-c-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/12\/29\/ross-hull-and-clinton-desoto-ham-radio-and-r-c-planes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross Hull and Clinton DeSoto &#8212; Ham Radio and R\/C Planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/HullandDestotoPixonly.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"547\" data-original-width=\"195\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/HullandDestotoPixonly.jpg\" width=\"228\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Rogier PA1ZZ sent me a video that linked Ross Hull and Clinton DeSoto to the development of today&#8217;s killer drones. While it looks like that is quite a stretch (I&#8217;m sure Rogier would agree), the involvement of these two radio guys in the early development of radio-controlled planes is very interesting. <\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: \"Open Sans\"; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;\"><b><i>An article, \u201cRadio Control of Model Aircraft,\u201d by Ross A. Hull and Roland B. Bourne, was the first to describe in detail a working radio system suitable for model aircraft. They wrote: \u201cMost hams are usually far from being one-hobby men and one discovers, almost invariably, an interest in the other sciences and the crafts. A common interest in ham radio, aeronautics, model building, and photography is almost the rule. We happen to be built that way and our interest in aircraft led us, this summer, to take an active interest in this problem of radio control.\u201d (QST, October, 1937) <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>More here: <\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jmrc.tripod.com\/fa\/days\/days_2.htm\"><b>https:\/\/jmrc.tripod.com\/fa\/days\/days_2.htm<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>And here: <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b> <a href=\"https:\/\/ethw.org\/Ross_A._Hull\">https:\/\/ethw.org\/Ross_A._Hull<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rogier PA1ZZ sent me a video that linked Ross Hull and Clinton DeSoto to the development of today&#8217;s killer drones. While it looks like that is quite a stretch (I&#8217;m sure Rogier would agree), the involvement of these two radio guys in the early development of radio-controlled planes is very interesting. An article, \u201cRadio Control &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/12\/29\/ross-hull-and-clinton-desoto-ham-radio-and-r-c-planes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ross Hull and Clinton DeSoto &#8212; Ham Radio and R\/C Planes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-r-c-plane","category-radio-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}