[BC] Re: WGUN Westinghouse

Wed Mar 28 19:08:16 CDT 2007

Wow!  Thanks Dave for the info.  That sure brings back some great memories.
I still live near the Kessler Park are which is not far from some of those
locations.  We used to drive by KLIF and honk the horn trying to get a
little attention.  I remember KNUS when it came about.  It was a real outlaw
to some people who were not into the music of the day.

Thanks again for the info.

Rick

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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
Tel Toll Free (888) 822-1078
Fax (205) 822-6441

-----Original Message-----
From: rickbras at airmail.net
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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

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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
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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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