Philip Ray Coursey
Philip Ray Coursey (1892 - 1960) was an electronic engineer, technical author and, in the early days of radio in the United Kingdom, a prominent amateur radio operator.
Born: 1892.
Educated at University College, London. Awarded Diploma in Electrical Engineering with Distinction, graduating with first-class Honours in Electrical Engineering at the University of London. He subsequently acted as Assistant to Dr. J. A. Fleming, F.R.S., at University College, London.
From 1915-18 served as Inspector of Wireless Telegraph Apparatus for the Admiralty; afterwards appointed to the staff of H.M. Signal School, Portsmouth, as Research Physicist.
A long-time employee of The Dubilier Condenser Co. Ltd., he variously held the roles of Research Engineer, Chief Engineer (1925) and Technical Director (1937).
He was the author of many papers on Radio telegraphy and telephony read before a number of Societies, and was Assistant Editor for the early radio journal Radio Review: A Monthly Record of Scientific Progress in Radiotelegraphy and Telephony between October 1919 and March 1922. He also authored several books during his career: Telephony without Wires (1919), The Radio Experimenter's Handbook (1922), The Wireless Telephone (1922), How to Build Amateur Valve Stations (1923) and the monograph Electrolytic Condensers their Properties, Design and Practical Uses (1937).
He was an Associate Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and a Member of the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
A prominent member of the Radio Amateur fraternity, he held the pre-WWI call sign GYX, later operating as 2JK and G5AT[1] A member, then later Member of Committee (1920-) and then Hon. Secretary (1924-) of The Wireless Society of London and its successor organisation, the Radio Society of Great Britain. He was a driving force behind the "Transatlantic tests" that saw the first communication between radio amateurs in the United Kingdom and the United States during the years 1921 - 1926. [2][3]
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- ↑ Clarricoats, John. (1967). World at their Fingertips. London: Radio Society of Great Britain. p.15; p.85.
- ↑ (2013). Transatlantic Tests. How amateur radio first spanned the Atlantic - not always entirely legally - reproduced from the research of Philip Coursey in 1921-1926." RadCom. 89(7): 62-65.
- ↑ Clarricoats, John. (1967). World at their Fingertips. London: Radio Society of Great Britain. pp. 62-72.