[BC] Re: WGUN Westinghouse

Wed Mar 28 18:33:43 CDT 2007

Thanks Dave.  Scott Fybush has a nice photo of the 12-tower site in his 
tower-site calendar series.

Mark Durenberger

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <dhultsman5 at aol.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] Re: WGUN Westinghouse

> Rick:
>
> You are correct the KLIF studio were upstairs at "triangle point" 
> intersection of Commerce St, Jackson St., and North Central Expressway 
> before the overhead.  Ron Chapman worked there as the first Irving 
> Harrigan,  later on Granny Emma was an invention of Ken Dowe.   KLIF's AM 
> transmitters were at two locations, a day site, 50 kW. off South McArthur 
> on Bush Lane between Irving and Grand Prairie, Texas a four tower in-line 
> broadside array, with major pattern east and west over Dallas and Ft. 
> Worth.  At the triple underpass in Dallas the RF used to measure 1 Volt.
>
> The night site was located at the original KLIF daytime only site at 6300 
> Scyene Road near Bruton road with 5 Towers in-line in the White Rock Creek 
> bottoms.  That was a 5 kW. ND day site until 1959 when the 50 kw. site was 
> built in Irving. KLIF was a daytime only from 1947 till about 1950 when 
> granted directional 1 kW. at night.  They were granted 5 kW. ND day at 
> that site in about 1953.
>
> In 1967 we began construction of the new nighttime site, the 12 tower 
> array, 2 rows of 6-tower, SE of Rockwall, Texas on hi-way 740, for 5 kW. 
> nights.  The major lobe was off the broadside of the array and was a line 
> thru downtown Dallas and on to Ft. Worth.  The station for a period of 
> time operated with three transmitter sites using three power levels and a 
> total of 21 radio towers. Beat that for an AM station.  After the new 5 
> kW. night site was granted a license as a "critical array" the old 5 tower 
> site on Scyene Rd. was abandoned and the CE 315 transmitter was sold to 
> KHYM in Gilmer, TX. I don't know where the original RA-1000 transmitter 
> went.
>
> KLIF's sister FM station, KNUS was not located at Cedar Hill until it was 
> sold. It became KLUV and moved from Chalk Hill, the 500 ft. self-supporter 
> just off Now I-30 was the Dallas-Ft. Worth tollway and Westmoreland Ave to 
> Cedar Hill where 98.7 remains today.
>
> Enough old history.  Nobody need 12 radio towers.
>
>
> Dave Hultsman
> Continental Electronics .
> Birmingham, AL
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rickbras at airmail.net
> To: broadcast at radiolists.net
> Sent: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 3:50 PM
> Subject: RE: [BC] Re: WGUN Westinghouse
>
>
> Dave,
> Just out of curiosity, was the studio at KLIF in downtown Dallas, upstairs
> in kind of a triangular building?  Ron Chapman was doing shows there at 
> the
> time along with Grandma Emma.  Those were some great days when KLIF was
> booming 50,000 watts of rock 'n roll to the DFW area!  I'm assuming the
> transmitter was at Cedar Hill?
> Rick
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 3:38 PM
> To: broadcast at radiolists.net
> Subject: Re: [BC] Re: WGUN Westinghouse
>
>
> I'd love to have a copy also.   I am sure Barry would post it for everyone
> if you could get it to him.
> I worked at KLIF and was one of the folk WOWO shared 1190 kHz. with back 
> in
> the '60's.
>
>
> Dave Hultsman
> Continental Electronics .
> Birmingham, AL
> Tel Toll Free (888) 822-1078
> Fax (205) 822-6441
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bobgroome at yahoo.com
> To: broadcast at radiolists.net
> Sent: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 3:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [BC] Re: WGUN Westinghouse
>
>
> If you have access to a photo of the WOWO HG, I'd
> sure like to see a copy, liven in Richmond IN for
> 10 years. WOWO was/is a great station.
>
> bob
> --- Blaine Thompson <blaine at well.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Scott Fybush wrote:
>>
>> > The only functioning HG I've seen in recent
>> years is at WOWO.
>>
>> As I understand, WOWO's is only fired up about
>> once a month.  I'll check
>> more into this...
>>
>> Blaine Thompson
>> Fort Wayne, IN
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