[BC] WLW--when it was 500 kW

[John Vodenik]

Hope this gets trhrough.  Yes they did.  Hitler used to call them "The 
Zincinniti Liars".  I had a chance to see what is left of the 500 kW rig. 
It's AMAZING!!!  Something like 18 feet high.  Wonderful box.  I could walk 
there from my house back in Mason, Ohio.  My old C.E. asked me how close I 
lived to the tower.  I said I could see the beacon light filaments with 
binoculars. I can't remember the call but that sounds like it.
John @ VOA / Delano


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Durenberger" <Mark4 at durenberger.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [BC] WLW--when it was 500 kW


> Legend has it there also was a time when the full-power was used 
> overnight, to send war-time communications to occupied European countries. 
> Wasn't it operated as "8XK" during those ("experimental") periods?
>
> Mark Durenberger
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Phil Alexander" <dynotherm at earthlink.net>
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> Cc: <broadcast at radiolists.net>; "Scott Fybush" <scott at fybush.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 9:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [BC] WLW--when it was 500 kW
>
>
>> On 5 Jul 2005 at 7:34, Dan Strassberg wrote:
>>
>>> Rob Atkinson wrote about how when WLW ran 500 kW in the '30s, its 
>>> groundwave
>>> coverage extended all the way to Canada.
>>>
>>> Certainly not hard to believe, given that it's only, what? 250 miles or 
>>> so
>>> from south to north across Ohio and then another maybe 50 miles across 
>>> Lake
>>> Erie. Remember, 700 is a lower frequency than WBZ's 1030 and the soil
>>> conductivity in most of Ohio is quite good.
>>
>> Actually, the conductivity between WLW and Canada is very good. Not quite 
>> up
>> to the level seen in the great plains, but enough to make a station in
>> New England drool over it.
>>
>> BTW, IIRC, WLW was briefly on in the late 50's from midnight to 1 AM 
>> testing
>> the 500 kW rig when Crosley applied for full time authorization. After 
>> the
>> FCC denied Crosley, he sold the station not long afterward.
>>
>>
>> Phil Alexander, CSRE, AMD
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