W8IDX 1934 Cincinnati, Ohio

Operator: Arnold Spielberg

Arnold Spielberg was the father of Steven, of Hollywood fame.
An engineer, Arnold died recently at age 103 and thus he made the news.
He was recognized as an important early pioneer of the computing industry, at both RCA and GE.
Of course, he was a radio amateur at a young age. In World War  II he had worked on a radio-guidance system to help steer bombs dropped from aircraft.
After the war, he was at Wright-Patterson for some time.

Arnold Spielberg graduated from Hughes HS in Cincy in 1934. His buddy in HS was Jake Schott W8FGX (class of '33).

Arnold was W8IDX, W9AUM, and W2IXM and Jake was W8FGX (later, W8DZ). Together they started the ham radio club at the high school.
In the online documents, we see comments from Steven Spielberg about his father:  a tinkerer, making things....
But Steven never mentions that he himself ever became a ham. The father is quoted as saying his son started making movies at age sixteen and never wanted to do anything else.

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