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Since June 2013, a few zip files are available for download of temporary raw scans of various old radio magazines, which will eventually be made into decent res pdf files. Until that time, feel free to browse the raw scans.

Radio Machrihanish (HTML)

Situated on the Mull of Kintyre, on the coast facing the Atlantic, this little known village was host to one of the earliest wireless experiments. The story of Radio Machrihanish was printed in the Scots magazine in July 1989, pages 384-7, and written by Hamish Mackinven.

Click here for a pdf file of scans of the original article

Here are some nostalgic images from late 1926 and early 1927.  This was around the time the BBC changed its name from the British Broadcasting Company Ltd. to the British Broadcasting Corporation.  In those early days the BBC was not afraid of advertising products as can be seen by the back covers of the libretti below.  The images are quite large in order to preserve quality.