[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:
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>> 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...
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Fred R. Morton, CSRE
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