The Eastern Massachusetts Radio Timeline: The First Fifteen
Years researched by Donna Halper and edited by Garrett Wollman
Amateur station 1XE is licensed to one Harold J. Power, a Tufts
College alumnus. The station would be located on the Tufts
Campus in Medford Hillside, along with the receiver
manufacturing company Power founded, AMRAD. - 1XE is operating
sporadically. Among the regular air staff is Eunice Randall, the
first female announcer in Massachusetts and a noted early
amateur radio operator (“ER”, later 1CDP) as well. (Some sources
say that 1XE was broadcasting as early as 1919, but the most
reliable evidence points to the summer of 1920.) The first
newspaper to cover radio regularly is the Boston Traveler, whose
ham radio page begins in February and gradually expands to
commercial radio coverage. Its editor is Guy Entwistle, who had
worked at 1XE and was also a licensed ham radio operator. All
broadcast stations at this time are licensed to operate at a
wavelength of 360 meters (833 kHz in modern