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And the technology blog, Hackaday¸ recently featured a profile of Rufus Turner, W3LF (SK), said to be the first African-American radio amateur in the United States. The ARRL Letter says Turner helped develop the venerable 1N34A diode and wrote a 1949 article in Radio-Electronics magazine in which he explained how to build your own transistor before they were commercially available.