[BC] FM History

[Jeff Johnson]

I'm sure we've all read "Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio" by Tom 
Lewis.

History of any subject is first written by the winners, and then revised. 
Who knows the accuracy of any of it? On our trip to China in 2008, one of 
our group was a young Vietnamese lady of college age studying at Xavier, 
Cincinnati. I mentioned 'the war' and how I had been an anti-war hippie. I 
expressed regret for what the U.S. did to Vietnam. She seemed unconcerned 
about such, to her and her generation, ancient, irrelevant history. My 
regret, myself included, was also ancient and irrelevant.

Exploring the bones of the very famous WLW 500 kW TX is, in the present, 
just crawling among so much cold steel, brass and glass. Stacked behind it 
is the paperwork involving Powel Crosley's attempt to license WLW 
permanently for 'Super Power'. It was like walking through the Roman Forum.

Jeff.Johnson at rfproof.com

At 01:08 AM 11/25/2010, Scott Bailey wrote:
>  I'm trying to figure out in my mind,
>what when wrong. Why was Armstrong done dirty?  The technology was around 
>in the
>mid to late 30's but I guessing RCA wanted to be the "big dogs" and push
>Armstrong out of the picture.