Inventor and organizer who gave amateur radio its institution. In 1914, with Clarence Tuska, he founded the American Radio Relay League to pass messages by organized relay across the continent, and his advocacy preserved amateur access to the airwaves when regulation could have ended the hobby. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Defining ContributionCo-founded the American Radio Relay League (1914) 1 Connections
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Maxim, ARRL's founder, championed the tests as proof of what member stations could do.
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Founded 1914 by Hiram Percy Maxim with Clarence Tuska
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Hiram Percy Maxim (September 2, 1869 – February 17, 1936) was an American inventor and radio pioneer who co-founded the American Radio Relay League with Clarence D. Tuska.
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Founded in 1914 by Hiram Percy Maxim as The American Radio Relay League, ARRL is a noncommercial organization that numbers within our ranks the vast majority of active radio amateurs in the United States.
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