1910-11 Staff


Officer in Charge: Charlie Bradbury

2nd Operator:  W.T. Hillier

3rd Operator:  Andy Gray

    Riggers working on tightening antenna guy wires at CapeLazo.  No date but is from the 1910 era. Photo from the Royal B.C. Museum.  

    The first Cape Lazo Radio Operations desk. Station went on the air in early 1908. Transmitter control board on the left with receiver on desk to the right.  This photo is earlier than the one below.  Photo from the Royal B.C. Museum. 

    Charlie Bradbury on watch. Photo taken from opposite side of room from the one above. Note chair is the same. Photo from the Royal BC Museum. Date is June 1917.

Charlie Bradbury and his car.

   B.C. Mills prefab housing the operations room and transmitter. Lots of stumps and no new brush growing points to the year being around 1909.

Royal British Columbia Museum Collection
The first Cape Lazo Radio Operations desk. Station went on the air in early 1908.  Spark transmitter control panel on the left.  Royal British Columbia Museum Collection
Cape Lazo in 1910.  Operations building on the left with dwellings in the background. One mast visible.

Comox Museum Collection
256   "Non-synchronous spark transmitter high tension room. Cape Lazo,March 30, 1911."
High voltage transformer on the right, spark gaps in the center, and capacitor bank on the left. Antenna tuning inductance jumpers on the wall with the RF ammeter right at the top.   Spark gap probably covered to reduce the annoyingly loud noise the spark discharge made.

Bowerman Collection
Not a very clear photo.  Appears to be a rotary spark, one was installed around 1913.

Victoria Colonist Newspaper 
Poor photo but is of the station. Note hazy image of the steamer on the wall and compare it with photo 167 on this page.          Victoria Colonist
298   Cape Lazo Station 1914.

Bowerman Collection
1925 photo. Vacuum tube transmitter on the desk, but spark transmitter still seems to be available as backup transmitter--controls on the left. Two receivers on the right.  Larry Reid's book.
1952 image of a gasoline engine back up generator at Lazo.  Hand crank to start. Gasoline engines were dangerous to have indoors unless in a well ventilated room. 
Operator Bob Manning worked at Lazo in the latter part of the 1950's. Middle view of Lazo's operating position. HRO and CSR5 receivers.

Manning Collection
Lazo's operating position. The MEL (MEL500?) transmitter would have served has the 2 mHz radiophone transmitter.  Interesting frequency and tuning control handle extensions on the CW transmitter.  (500 kHz and a working frequency.)  Typical frequencies in a coast station would have been 1630 working, 2182 calling/distress, 2200 lighthouse, 2340/2458 duplex phone patch, 2318 tugboat.

Manning Collection
Could have been the Lazo's weather observation desk. Weather teletype on the left.  Most stations did an observation every hour and sent it off to the weather office via teletype.

Manning Collection
Lazo operations building on the left and dwelling on the right.  From the car it may be 1940's era.

Manning Collection

List of operators sometime in the 1950-60 period.  Appears to have been glued to a card at onetime.


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Cape Lazo Photos
This page contains a sequence of Cape Lazo wireless station photos in a more or less chronological order.