Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> Some recordings of Fessenden's early transmissions (done on
> wax Edison cylinders) available on line at
>
>
http://www.hello-radio.org/historyofradio.htmlThis page asserts,
"Listen to Fessenden's first voice transmission on December
23, 1900 -- he says, Hello! Test, 1, 2, 3, 4. Is it snowing
where you are Mr. Thiessen?"
This is a nice page for ham radio. However, the voice heard in the audio clips
is not that of Reginald Fessenden, but rather that of John S. Belrose of the
Communications Research Center, Ottawa, Canada. Mr Belrose constructed
emulations of early spark-based transmitters in 1994. His outstanding (and
very early) web page can be accessed at
http://www.hammondmuseumofradio.org/spark.html. To quote briefly from this
page,
"On the 23 December 1900, Fessenden, after many unsuccessful
tries, transmitted words without wires. The speech you hear
is the voice of the author [Belrose], using the transmitter as
described above (the best transmission out of several recorded),
but the words are those used by Fessenden the inventor."
The audio clip linked from the word "hear" above, recorded by Belrose, is the
same one used on the
http://www.hello-radio.org/historyofradio.html page.
Listen to both of them several times, and it will leave you with no doubt that
they are the same recording. Apparently the author either misread Belrose's
statement quoted above and really thought the recording was of Fessenden's
voice, or he figured it was just more satisfying to say that it was! :-)
Bill / W5WVO
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