Old pieces of radio history that had a home in Highland County for several years now rest in a West Virginia museum due to the efforts of the Highland Amateur Radio Association (HARA).
Today, most people take radio for granted as they have been able to listen to music and news like it has always been there. However, if you could to go back before the turn of the century and turn on one of today’s radios all you would hear would be silence and static. It was only after the turn of the century when you might even hear only Morse Code dits and dahs, then used to communicate because voice was not yet possible.
It was not until Christmas Eve 1906, when Canadian Reginald Fessenden made the first transmission of voice and music over the airwaves.
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