Hiram Percy Maxim
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Sep 20, 2026
Will RogersCORRESPONDENT
It seems that radio, not the Jersey Shore, would provide the vacation element.
Will RogersCORRESPONDENT
Hiram Percy Maxim wrote that he had not felt such a kick since 1917 when he received a long-distance phone call from the U.S. Navy just a few months before the country entered the war, asking for help in recruiting amateurs to serve as radio operators.
Will RogersCORRESPONDENT
Now eight years later, he had just opened a letter from Captain Ridley McLean, U.S. Navy, Director of Naval Communications, which brought back the same feeling.
Will RogersCORRESPONDENT
The Navy was planning to establish a radio reserve force of 6,000 skilled radio operators from which to draw in times of national emergency.
Will RogersHOST
It seems that radio, not the Jersey Shore, would provide the vacation element.
Will RogersHOST
Hiram Percy Maxim wrote that he had not felt such a kick since 1917 when he received a long-distance phone call from the U.S. Navy just a few months before the country entered the war, asking for help in recruiting amateurs to serve as radio operators.
Will RogersHOST
Now eight years later, he had just opened a letter from Captain Ridley McLean, U.S. Navy, Director of Naval Communications, which brought back the same feeling.
Will RogersHOST
The Navy was planning to establish a radio reserve force of 6,000 skilled radio operators from which to draw in times of national emergency.
David MinsterGUEST
And we've already started working with them about what that looks like.
David MinsterGUEST
The IARU, just in a nutshell, it was founded in large part by Hiram Percy Maxim, probably on the...
David MinsterGUEST
the heels of all the work that he had to do in washington after world war one to get hams their frequencies back um and he knew that that was going to be an issue for anybody and so he created the iaru there was a meeting in paris back in 1925 with um oh i don't know a couple dozen countries today IARU is a big, healthy organization.
David MinsterGUEST
The world is divided up into three regions.
Will RogersHOST
It seems that radio, not the Jersey Shore, would provide the vacation element.
Will RogersHOST
Hiram Percy Maxim wrote that he had not felt such a kick since 1917 when he received a long-distance phone call from the U.S. Navy just a few months before the country entered the war, asking for help in recruiting amateurs to serve as radio operators.
Will RogersHOST
Now eight years later, he had just opened a letter from Captain Ridley McLean, U.S. Navy, Director of Naval Communications, which brought back the same feeling.
Will RogersHOST
The Navy was planning to establish a radio reserve force of 6,000 skilled radio operators from which to draw in times of national emergency.
Will RogersHOST
It seems that radio, not the Jersey Shore, would provide the vacation element.
Will RogersHOST
Hiram Percy Maxim wrote that he had not felt such a kick since 1917 when he received a long-distance phone call from the U.S. Navy just a few months before the country entered the war, asking for help in recruiting amateurs to serve as radio operators.
Will RogersHOST
Now eight years later, he had just opened a letter from Captain Ridley McLean, U.S. Navy, Director of Naval Communications, which brought back the same feeling.
Will RogersHOST
The Navy was planning to establish a radio reserve force of 6,000 skilled radio operators from which to draw in times of national emergency.
RyanHOST
There we go.
RyanHOST
Hiram Percy Maxim suppressor.
RyanHOST
It literally was a fricking tube.
DaltonHOST
Yes, I understand.
RyanHOST
Uh, [laughs] well, yeah, but that's a whole different thing.
RyanHOST
You can't hear anyway.
RyanHOST
We're talking about a picture of an actual Hiram Percy Maxim suppressor from 90 years ago.
DaltonHOST
Yeah.