Article: Leon Wecker invented a radio that's probably in your house, but who is he?

Byline: Tom Berg

LAGUNA WOODS VILLAGE, Calif. _ He still has the tube. The one that started it all.

The UX245 vacuum tube pulled from his parents' radio console back in 1933 to transmit his first message, in Morse code, to the world.

That very night, in the glow of a blue rectifier tube pulsing in a Brooklyn apartment, the 14-year-old boy knew he'd spend his life in radio.

And he did.

He later worked with the giants of CBS Radio: Arthur Godfrey, Steve Allen and Edward R. Murrow. But his own name was never in lights.

"I was never interested in being on the other side of the mike," says the retired radio engineer, now ...

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