[BC] Galaxy Being

Fred Morton radioguy at airmail.net
Sun Oct 18 06:34:03 CDT 2009


That would have been back in the days of the old Western Electric...KOMA 
replaced that rig with a Continental 317C in 1966. The WE was put in at 
the then new site at Moore, Oklahoma when they went to 50kw, sometime in 
1947. I hope you took pictures!

Fred Morton
Houston (former KOMA CE back in the day)

Glen Kippel wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Andy Soule <andysoule at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I once had a morning host crank up an MW5A up as far as it could go.
>> I think he may have been from another planet, but I never could prove
>> it.  That poor tube....
>>
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>
> In 1962 I visited KOMA late at night; it was right next door to a cemetary
> at that time.  The engineer was there and he proceeded to crank the
> transmiiter up to 68,000 watts to see if he could raise the dead.
> Thankfully, no zombies appeared...
>
>
>   

-- 
Fred R. Morton, CSRE


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