Material for this page was graciously supplied by St George's School.

As early as 1908 Phillip Morgan Parker, Class of 1913, and Bradford Norman Jr., Class of 1914 were experimenting with wireless.

Wireless School Notes Dragon November 1908

Wireless School Notes Dragon March 1909

Wireless School Notes Dragon February 1910

Even before there was an official record of a Radio Club at St George's school, there was a listings for the call sign NB in the First Annual Official Wireless Blue Book of the Wireless Association of America, 1909 and then again in the Modern Electrics February, 1909

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First Annual Official Wireless Blue Book
of the
Wireless Association of America, 1909

Modern Electrics February 1909

The first record of an official radio club at St. George's School appeared in the 1922 edition of the school's yearbook. The Lance. ¹

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St George's Yearbook, "The Lance, 1922"

The club, with the help of a Master, built a house to facilitate their sets and worth while aerials.

One of their first accomplishments was to receive the Darthmouth-Columbia and Harvard-Yale games and playing them through a loud speaker in the gymnasium. ²

This had to be one of the earliest sporting events received and played for an audience in the state.

In 1923 the club installed a new transmitting and receiving set that enabled them to send and receive messages with a 12,000 mile range. ³

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1924 QSL

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1924 QSL
Thanks to Pete, NL7XM

Wireless Age February, 1923

On May 2, 1925 it was reported in the school newspaper The Red and White that the school radio club 1AOA was back on the air and was heard in San Francisco. ⁵

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1925 QSL

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1930 QSL

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The Lance, 1931

In 1938, we see two amateurs causing havoc with some of the local radio reception and local sound system. ⁴

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The Lance, 1940

¹ The Lance, 1922

² The Dragon, December 1922

³ The Dragon, January 1923

⁴ The Red and White, November 2, 1938

⁵ The Red and White, May 2, 1925