Edwin Howard Armstrong

In episode two, the signal got complicated.

Edwin Armstrong invented FM, a better radio than anybody had asked for, and RCA spent 20 years burying it and him.

Television took radio's stars and its money, and in the empty rooms they'd left behind, a second frontier opened up, the disc jockey.

Black radio.

Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of Dead Electrical Dudes.

This week's edition stiff is Edward Armstrong.

And we'll stop by and visit with Bill Sires, AJ8B in the DX corner, with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contest, and much more.

That's all straight ahead as North America's premier amateur radio and technology news magazine and bulletin service this week in Amateur Radio takes to the air right now.

A year later, Lee DeForest had appropriated his key invention for transmitting AM.

Edwin Armstrong modified his theory to create practical FM.

The resulting patent miasma was still there when Fessenden died at 66.

Too bad.

It's called That's Why God Made the Radio.

And here all these years, I thought it was Edwin Armstrong, but you live and learn.

Peter Vazquez and Next Step Show on the Voice of Liberty.

Hey, come on in here.

One of the great pleasures of radio, climbing the towers.

Edwin Armstrong climbed them whenever he could.

Isn't he the guy who jumped to his death?

Oh, out of 13-story windows, yes.

They leased the eighty-fifth floor and built a laboratory there.

In 1934, RCA was joined by Edwin Howard Armstrong in a cooperative venture to test his FM system from the building's antenna.

The setup, which entailed the installation of the world's first FM transmitter, continued only until October of the next year due to disputes between RCA and Armstrong.

Specifically, NBC wanted to install more TV equipment in the room where Armstrong's transmitter was located.