History question about 1927 QSL card
Sorry to just jump in here (always dreamed of getting into ham, just haven't made the time) but I have a January 1927 QSL card with an space for QSB (signal quality?), followed by a penciled entry: "GUD RAC" and STDY I understand that GUD meant "good," and STDY probably "steady" but haven't been able to determine what RAC stood for. Morse code only, I guess. Hope I haven't mangled the terminology too badly.
My uncle Johnny broadcast from station 9CUL in St. Louis (fifty watts, I think, out of his mother's garage). The QSL is from Chester Campbell, 5ND, in New Mexico, who wrote, "my best day DX so far." Johnny got his radio chops working at station KSD, owned by the Post-Dispatch newspaper. Had a Sunday "How To" section for hams, and was assistant to the station's entertainment manager. Had his heartbeat broadcast coast to coast by a newly invented stethoscope-microphone, a radio first. Johnny lost his job when KSD began rebroadcasting NBC content from New York, so he hit the road as a radio salesman, but his car was soon repossessed. He then set out on foot to meet his girlfriend in Los Angeles that summer. Was hired by the El Paso Times (circulation, no radio). Unfortunately, he was murdered May 29 just after crossing into El Paso from Juarez. I've stood at the place where he fell, was one hundred years ago next year.
