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General First nameCharles Newton
LastnameKraus
GenderMale
CountryUnited States of America
Date of birth1907-00-00
Place of birth, -
Date of death1973-00-00
Place of death, -


About

harles Newton Kraus, Brown University class of 1931, was an experienced amateur radio operator. He was president of the Brown Radio Club while he was a student in the late 1920s. He demonstrated the reception of a television transmission in 1928. His “ham” radio license was 1BCR (then W1BCR after 1928.) He operated an experimental station W1XE and was also issued an experimental license for a police car radio in 1937. According to an obituary in the February 1974 issue of Brown Alumni Monthly: “In 1956, he established contact with Seabee units manning Operation Deep Freeze in the Antarctic and arranged telephone hookups with families in Rhode Island, who were able to talk directly with Seabee husbands and sons.” In his 1958 report Smiley describes how Kraus recorded the signals from the Sputnik satellites using his amateur radio equipment.

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Archive statistics Career1931 - 1933
Tournament wins1
Matches2
Match wins1


Tournament wins 1933 - Rhode Island Clay Courts (Amateur)


Tournaments Rhode Island Clay Courts - 1933 Narragansett Bay Championships - 1931