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Title: Radio for everybody; being a popular guide to practical radio-phone reception and transmission and to the dot-and-dash reception and transmission of the radio telegraph, for the layman who wants to apply radio for his pleasure and profit without going into the special theories and the intricacies of the art
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Lescarboura, Austin C. (Austin Celestin), 1891-
Subjects: Radio
Publisher: New York, Scientific American publishing company (etc.)
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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ase full power is not required. Malicious or wilful interference on the part of any radiostation or the transmission of any false or fraudulent dis-tress signal or call is prohibited. Severe penalties areprovided for violation of these provisions. Special amateur stations may be Hcensed at the dis-cretion of the Secretary of Commerce to use a longerwave length and higher power than general amateur sta-tions. Applicants for special amateur station licensesmust have had two years experience in actual radio com-munication. A special license will then be granted bythe Secretary of Commerce only if some substantialbenefit to the science of radio communication or to com-merce seems probable. Special amateur stations located,on or near the sea coast must be operated by a personholding a commercial license. Amateur station licensesare issued to clubs if they are incorporated, or if anymember holding an amateur operators license will acceptthe responsibility for the operation of the apparatus.
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174 RADIO FOR EVERYBODY Applications for operators and station licenses of allclasses should be addressed to the Radio Inspector of thedistrict in which the applicant or station is located, or,if this is not known, to the Bureau of Navigation, Depart-ment of Commerce, Washington, D. C. The accompany-ing map indicates the territory covered by each radiodistrict. Each district has a Radio Inspector, w^hose address isgiven below: First District Boston, Mass. Second District New York City Third District Baltimore, Md. Fourth District Norfolk, Va. Fifth District New Orleans, La. Sixth District San Francisco, Calif. Seventh District Seattle, Wash. Eighth District Detroit, Mich. Ninth District Chicago, 111. Once more, let it be clearly understood that no Hcenseis required for a receiving set only or for the operatorof a receiving set. However, all persons are requiredby law to maintain secrecy in regard to any messageswhich may be overheard. This is a blanket law, of course,intended to safeg

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