Bart Lee is a retired San Francisco Attorney and Noted Wireless Historian. He is a CHRS and AWA History Fellow and AWA Houck Award winner. He has presented and published and now shares the following work. You are welcome to email Bart. In the video below Bart welcomes you to his research and publication:
Below, Bart Talks Wireless courtesy Murray Eiland’s Radio Archaeology series:
- NEW: Jenkins TV 1932 l Bart’s New CHRS Communications Center | News from the Winchell Comm Center | Amelia Earhart’s Loop | Amelia Earhart’s Receiver | Self Destruc Switch | Cold War | A Tuning Eye in WWII |
- | Iconic WWII BC 348 | Steve Garaventa, Hall Hero | Japanese VLF | 1902 Marconi | Listening In | New Tesla Books in Library |
- NEW: Donation of wireless gear | Radar in World War 2 | Radar in World War 2 | Sunspots and Solstice | Lee de Forest, Editor V2 |
- NEW: Roots of the CHRS Doggie Logo | The Wireless News | Metallic Radio Ephemera Russia | WOK Radio | Zenith Tube Poster |
- NEW: Early Magnetrons at CHRS | 1910 Amateur Transceiver | American Bosch 1927 | Art of Design in Radio | Radio Drinks Radio Smokes |
- NEW: China Radio 1920s | Controversial English Portable 1948 | Flewelling Short Wave Converter | Frank Butler | Phil’s Fabulous Fakes |
- NEW: High End Radio 1947 | Jewel Instruments Tester | Madonna of Radio | Midget Radios | Radio Sales Gimmicks | CONELRAD |
- NEW: Radio Shack Flavor Radios | TV DX | Two Excellent New Tesla Books | War Emergency Radio Service | Barts QSL Short Wave Book Review
- NEW: Wireless Alaska 1903 | Wireless Oakland 1911 | Wireless Shop Los Angeles | Zenith Transoceanic Portable |
- NEW: Two new pieces of telegraph equipment in the museum | X RayVol 3 | Monitoring Short Wave | Clough Brengle | Wireless Fiends |
- NEW: One Man’s Family | Bart Lee CQ Book Review | Radio Station KYA First Transmitter |
- NEW: Happy Birthday Hedy Lamarr
- NEW Saving lives at sea WW1 | : CQD Jack Binns 1909
- NEW: San Francisco Wireless Club 1909
- NEW: Lee de Forest | San Francisco 1915 | Stock and Station | Audions 1909 | Adjustable Coils | De Forest Wireless Wagon | De Forest Trons | De Forest in Perspective |
- NEW: W2NDL, an Archive Radio Picture
- NEW: 2027 at Radio Central
- NEW: Bart Lee – Forward to a new wireless book
- NEW: Little Brown Radios Revised
- NEW: SCARS’s Riff on Round Radios by Bart Lee: Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3
- 911 Amateur Radio In New York
- The Radios of Pan American Airways, Alameda
- 6AWT – Bart Molinari – Farnsworth Engineer
- Experimenters on a New Amateur Band
- Bart’s WWII telegraph key restoration
- Radio Archeology v2.1 | Letter to the Editor
- Vacuum Tubes Redux? – EmComm for the Apocalypse
Marconi
- The Marconi Beacon Experiment of 2006-2007
- The Marconi Beacon Experiment – Lessons Learned
- Marconi’s Transatlantic Leap
- Genesis Revisited – 1899 San Francisco Wireless
- “S” is for Success: The Great Marconi Beacon Experiment of 2006-2007, Emended
- QEX-a (2005 published) Plea for Timely Experiments
- Marconi High Power at Bolinas |
Early Wireless
- How Dunwoody’s Chunk of Coal Saved both de Forest and Marconi
- West Coast Wireless 2006
- Telegraphic Radio Aircheck
- Wireless Comes of Age on the West Coast
- Wireless War 1902
Amateur Radio
- Clarence Tuska, Radio Pioneer, ARRL Founder (ARRL, Copyright ARRL)
- Bart’s San Francisco Amateur Radio History Since 1909
- San Francisco Radio Club, Since 1909
- Titanic Lessons for Emergency Radio – Revised
- Amateur Radio Emergency Communications History
- The Girl at 6BB
Radio Spies
- Spy Radios of World War Two as an Evolution of 1930s Midget Radios (a presentation to AWA)
- America’s Wireless Spies
- Spies, erratum
- Radio Spies Article
Swan Island/CIA
- Swan Island, its Radio History Including the CIA and the Revenge of United Fruit
- Swan Island Slides, United Fruit Company Wireless, Amateur Radio Stations and the CIA
- Swan Island Appendix
- E. Howard Hunt Letter
Military Radio
- Handy Talkie
- ARR1 Converter-Receiver
- Here are the photos from the military radio display featured at KRE in July 2013: MILRAD CHRS 20 VII 13 sm
- Operating Instructions BC 9 A
Miscellaneous
- WWII Early Maritime Radio
- WATCH: “QRT 500, The Close Down of 500 kHz in the United Kingdom” and QRT – Last Day of 500 kHz in France
- Ocean Hopper
- Radio Stamps
- Presido Site
- Short Wave Book Review
- Book Review: Empire of the Air
- Book Review: Listening/Broadcasting on the Short Waves 1945 to Today
- Writing Radio History
- The Early Electronic Uses of Nothing: a Presentation to the American Vacuum Society
- Bart has just published the Will Rayment Autobiography
- Book Review: Dark Signals by Si Dunn
Miscellaneous
- WWII Early Maritime Radio
- WATCH: “QRT 500, The Close Down of 500 kHz in the United Kingdom” and QRT – Last Day of 500 kHz in France
- Ocean Hopper
- Radio Stamps
- Presido Site
- Short Wave Book Review
- Book Review: Empire of the Air
- Book Review: Listening/Broadcasting on the Short Waves 1945 to Today
- Writing Radio History
- The Early Electronic Uses of Nothing: a Presentation to the American Vacuum Society
- Bart has just published the Will Rayment Autobiography
- Book Review: Dark Signals by Si Dunn
- Archivist Note Short Wave List 1930
- Library Archives 2023
- Library and Archives Report
- Library Report 2022
- Library Recent Acquisitions
- Library Misc Manuals
- Maritime Archives
- Modern Electrics
- Old Russian Radio
- Radio Station Sheet Music
- Tesla Books in Library
- First California High School Radio
- Foregoing Audio Transformers
Bart’s AWA Article list and abstracts
Several years ago I interviewed Bruno Zucconi about his life as a manufacturer of test equipment:
California Radio Stories: Bruno Zucconi |Bruno and Connie Remember |
In 2012 I interviewed Waldo Boyd, one of the founders of the Society of Wireless Pioneers. Walt, K6DZY, is now a silent key: