Wikibooks: History of wireless telegraphy and broadcasting in Australia/Topical/Publications/Australian Radio History/Timeline

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• Language: English
• Subjects: Morse; Antarc*; Antarctica; morse
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RADIO TIMELINES of AUSTRALIA =1900s= 1906 The first official Morse code transmission in Australia was conducted by the Marconi company from Queenscliff Victoria to Devonport Tasmania overseen by Ballarat inventor Henry Sutton. 1908 Henry Sutton demonstrated voice transmissions while contacting a U.S.A. naval fleet visiting Australia. =1910s= 1910 The Wireless Institute of Australia (W.I.A.) is formed by Walter Hannam (the first Australian radio operator in Antarctica) with licensed amateur operators using homemade equipment to experiment with Morse code. 1912 A Government network of coastal and island Morse code stations was established for telegrams and shipping emergencies. For security reasons these stations were controlled by the Navy during WWI. 1913 Amalgamated Wireless Australasia (A.W.A.) was established by merging Marconi and Telefunken 1918 The first experimental direct Morse code transmissions were conducted between England and Australia. 1918 The first public demonstration of music and speech broadcasts in Australia was conducted by licensed amateur operator Walter Coxon (later 6AG and 6WF) at the Perth Royal Show. 1919 A.W.A. conducted their first demonstration of music and speech broadcasts to engineers in Sydney hosted by their Chairman Ernest Fisk. 1919 A.W.A. established the first direct Morse radio communication between Australia and the United Kingdom. =1920s= 1920 A.W.A. became Australia’s first manufacturer of valves. 1920 The second A.W.A. demonstration of broadcasting was conducted for parliamentarians in Melbourne. 1921 A.W.A. experimental station 3ME in Melbourne was the forerunner of Radio Australia (see 1939). 1922 A.W.A. applied for broadcasting licenses in all parts of Australia. All their applications were refused. 1922 Charles MacLurcan is issued with Australia’s first broadcast licence (licence number one) signed by the Prime Minister Billy Hughes (2CM Sydney) issued under “The Regulations Radio Laws of the Amateur 1 Dec 1922”. 1922 Thomas Edison (inventor of the ...