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Walter E. Burke, Charlottetown.Early pioneer broadcaster.

At this time Dad was operating several transmitters under the call letters 9AK. It was, strictly speaking, illegal. But licencing procedures had not been formalized, and at times the question of illegal or legal operation was moot.

For example, equipment was built and rebuilt and parts interchanged—it was difficult to tell where an original set started and a new one began. At this point experimentalists like Dad, Walter Burke, and Walter Hyndman were all good friends who co-operated and exchanged knowledge and ideas freely with each other. The experimen— ters then, were the future’s broadcasters. What was going on in Charlottetown was typical of what was going on in the rest of the country. In a few years when their amateur stations were changed to

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