W7ANO 1954 Portland, Oregon

Halowat was the trademark of the radio firm of Hallock and Watson commencing in 1924. The "wat" part of the trademark was Clifton H. Watson, born in 1892, who got his start in radio at the public library in Portland, Oregon, where a wireless club had been formed in 1907. The only other source of information about radio at the time was through magazines. At the library, Watson obtained plans to build a magnetic coherer detector, which allowed him to receive signals across the room from his spark coil transmitter. Because he sported a red moustache, he became known to some `as "the cat's whisker."

Cliff Watson operated Amateur Radio Station W7ANO and worked as radio engineer for the Portland Police Department until World War II when he went on active duty with the US Navy. After the war, he was appointed radio engineer at the Electronic Laboratory of Naval Radio at San Diego. He died in San Diego, California, in 1973 at the age of 81.

"We made a lot of money in the 11 years we were in business," said Watson's partner, Joseph Hallock in a newspaper interview, "but the Depression wiped us out." http://www.antiqueradio.com/Jun06_Redman_HallockWatson.html

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