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The value of 2798 used in this article to compute the “free-space” length of an antenna in inches was a typo. The correct value is 2952. In addition, the Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA — www.wia.org.au) is the world’s oldest national amateur radio society, founded in 1910. It was followed by the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB — rsgb.org) in 1913, and only then by the ARRL in 1914.
