Harbingers of sputnik: The amateur radio preparations in the Soviet Union

Bulkeley, Rip

doi:10.1080/07341519908581957

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“… 12. On the practice of involving schoolchildren in the Soviet Union in scientific and engineering clubs through such organizations as Nature Protection Organization and Dobrovol’noe obshchestvo sodeistviia armii, aviatsii i flotu (DOSAAF) (Soviet voluntary paramilitary mass organization) see, respectively, Weiner (1999) and Bulkeley (1999). …”

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“…Radio amateurs played an important role during the International Geophysical Year (IGY, 1958-1959), when they helped to track the artificial satellites launched as part of the program. On Soviet radio amateurs’ participation in the IGY, see Bulkeley (1999). On the involvement of amateurs in the United States in detecting the path of Soviet Sputnik during the IGY, see McCray (2008).…”

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Citizen Seismology, Stalinist Science, and Vladimir Mannar’s Cold Wars

Aronova

2017

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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This essay takes a historical view on “citizen science” by exploring its socialist version via the case of a Soviet amateur seismologist Vladimir Mannar. In the wake of the 1948 Ashgabat earthquake, which coincided with Lysenko’s victory in his campaign against genetics, Mannar launched an aborted campaign for a participatory “socialist seismology.” Mannar co-opted Lysenkoist language of science for the people and gained professional status within professional seismology but was shut out by the experts capitalizing on a “big science” imperative of cold war. Mannar’s personal experiences of navigating competing pulls of cold war seismology and his vision of “people’s seismology,” marginalized within increasingly technical and instrumental cold war science, shed light on oxymoronic nature of citizen science, and the clash between participatory vision of science and an increasing reliance on high-level technical expertise. This case provides a vantage point from which to examine the dual nature of citizen science with its dual loyalties, ambiguities, and the constantly renegotiated status of data—the raison d’être and the most tangible outcome of the initiatives unfolded on the outer fringes of academic science.

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Citizen Seismology, Stalinist Science, and Vladimir Mannar’s Cold Wars

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2017

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“…Despite the popularity of this technological sect of communications, there has been little academic research about amateur radio. The academic literature that does exist on the subject primarily looks at the early to mid-20 th Century (Slotten, 2006;Lippmann, 2010;Brimson, 2002;Bulkeley, 1999;Haring, 2003). Most of the research uses rhetorical analysis of past documents to look at the evolutions of amateur radio, analyzing topics such as the origins, policy making, and the effects on the personal life of participants (Slotten, 2006;Lippmann, 2010;Brimson, 2002;Bulkeley, 1999;Haring, 2003;Baker, 1996).…”

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“…Brinson (2002) argues that this is because the FCC found alternative ways to prevent suspected Communists from obtaining licenses, such as an applicant's refusal to answer a questionnaire asking about political party relations. Bulkeley (1999) also conducted a study revolving around the "Red Scare," but primarily looked at amateur radio in the Soviet Union. He assessed articles presented in the periodical Radio prior to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik I in October 1957, stating that this surprise launch could have been preempted by Western intelligence agencies.…”

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“…Although Brinson's (2002) and Bulkeley's (1999) articles do not have a central public service theme, they are relevant because they contain contrasting viewpoints about a time period when international amateur radio regulations were influenced by the Cold War. Haring (2003) also didn't include an emphasis on amateur radio's public service, but her research is important to discuss because it shows the evolution in amateur radio.…”

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Disaster preparations and relief: The partnership between the American National Red Cross and Amateur Radio

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Disaster preparations and relief: The partnership between the American National Red Cross and Amateur Radio Bayley B. Brown The goal of this master's thesis is to evaluate the current state of the partnership between the American National Red Cross chapters and Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) groups. The alliance between these organizations has historically been outlined by national representatives, the most recent being the 2010 Memorandum of Understanding between the American National Red Cross and ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio. This partnership was assessed through a nationwide survey of American National Red Cross chapter representatives. Findings suggest that most Red Cross chapters have current partnerships with their local ARES group, and collaboration occurs primarily for disaster preparation and during relief efforts. The information gathered in this project helps raise awareness of the partnership between the Red Cross and ARES groups, familiarizes other organizations of both group's resources, and adds to the theory of collaborative advantage.

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