De Forest Radio Company Advertisement
February 1931 QST

February 1931 QST

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Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from QST, published December 1915 - present (visit ARRL for info). All copyrights hereby acknowledged.

The Klondike / Yukon Gold Rush is generally credited with opening up the Alaskan territory to exploration and habitation. Gold was first reported in August of 1896, just three decades prior to this advertisement in a 1931 issue of QST magazine by the De Forest Radio Company extolling its domination of the region with radio communications stations. Company founder Lee De Forest was very successful in exploiting the virtues of his famous Audion amplifier tube. A back-handed swipe is taken at Government installations that used "whatever tubes the Government has."

De Forest Radio Company Advertisement

Stations and Ships in Alaska Using Northern Electric Equipment

De Forest in Alaska

In the frozen North where the Aurora Borealis dances over the horizon, the safety, the comfort, and even the lives of men in far-flung stations and ships depend on reliable radio communication. The Northern Electric Company, which has equipped the Alaskan stations shown on the above map, has this to say of De Forest:

"Referring to the stations shown on the map on the inside cover of the catalog, approximately twenty-four of these stations were using De Forest transmitting tubes last season, and this year we are changing over all stations to use De Forest transmitting audions with the following exceptions: Nome, Dillingham, Anchorage and Ketchikan. These stations are Government stations and naturally use whatever tubes the Government may have.

"We are looking forward to a successful season and are very pleased to say that the service from your transmitting audions as well as the service rendered by the factory itself has been very excellent. We anticipate a much greater volume of business for the coming year than we have enjoyed in any of the previous years, and we assure you that De Forest audions will be standard equipment on any apparatus we manufacture. "

After All, There's Nothing Like 25 Years' Experience

Write for catalog on De Forest transmitting tubes for every conceivable purpose. Also do not hesitate to place special transmitting and receiving problems before our Engineering Department.

De Forest Radio Company

Passaic, New Jersey

Export Department:

304 E. 45th Street,

New York City, N. Y., U. S. A.

These articles and advertisements involving Lee De Forest appeared in various issues of vintage electronics magazines.

Lee de Forest, Father of Radio, 1873-1961 - September 1961 Radio-Electronics
de Forest's Early Audions - September 1965 Electronics World
How Audions Were Built - January 1947 Radio-Craft
Radio Inventions of Lee de Forest - January 1947 Radio-Craft
Birth of the Audion - January 1947 Radio-Craft
De Forest the Inventor - January 1947 Radio-Craft
De Forest Radio Company Advertisement - February 1931 QST Article
de Forest's Syncro-Graphic Training Ad - September 1945 Radio-Craft

What Did de Forest Really Invent? - September 1961 Radio-Electronics
How the Audion Was Invented - January 1947 Radio-Craft
Birth of the Electron Tube Amplifier - March 1957 Radio & Television News Article
Three Anecdotes of the Audion's Early Days - January 1947 Radio-Craft
Lee de Forest and the Navy - January 1947 Radio-Craft
Lee de Forest - Father of Radio - January 1947 Radio-Craft
De Forest Radio Company Advertisement - December 1931 QST

Posted March 24, 2020
(updated from original post on 7/12/2016)

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