Articles by Bart Lee

Bart Lee is a San Francisco Attorney and Noted Wireless Historian. He is a CHRS History Fellow and AWA Hauck Award winner. He has presented and published and now shares the following work. You are welcome to email Bart.

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NEW: Vacuum Tubes Redux? – EmComm for the Apocalypse

NEW: Bart’s San Francisco Amateur Radio History Since 1909

NEW: E. Howard Hunt Letter to AWA Review

NEW: RMS Titanic Lessons for Emergency Radio

NEW: Wireless War 1902

Marconi

• The Marconi Beacon Experiment of 2006-2007
• The Marconi Beacon Experiment – Lessons Learned
• Marconi’s Transatlantic Leap
• Genesis Revisited – 1899 San Francisco Wireless
• “S” is for Success: The Great Marconi Beacon Experiment of 2006-2007, Emended

Early Wireless

• How Dunwoody’s Chunk of Coal Saved both de Forest and Marconi
• West Coast Wireless 2006
• Telegraphic Radio Aircheck
• Wireless Comes of Age on the West Coast

Radio Spies

• Spy Radios of World War Two as an Evolution of 1930s Midget Radios (a presentation to AWA)
• America’s Wireless Spies
• Radio Spies Article
  • RS Sources
  • RS Captions
  • RS Photos Small
  • RS Photos Large

Swan Island/CIA

• Swan Island, its Radio History Including the CIA and the Revenge of United Fruit
• Swan Island Slides, United Fruit Company Wireless, Amateur Radio Stations and the CIA
• Swan Island Appendix

Military Radio

• Handy Talkie
• ARR1 Converter-Receiver

Miscellaneous

• Listening/Broadcasting on the Short Waves 1945 to Today
• WWII Early Maritime Radio
• Ocean Hopper
• Radio Stamps
• Presido Site
• Short Wave Book Review
• Writing Radio History
• The Early Electronic Uses of Nothing: a Presentation to the American Vacuum Society
• QEX-a (2005 published) Plea for Timely Experiments
• Amateur Radio Emergency Communications History