[BC] AM maintenance question

[John Mayson]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Chuck Lakaytis <chuck at akpb.org> wrote:
> They actually did stay on for that very purpose at the request of the
> War Department.

A simpler time I suppose.  These days a station owner would want
compensation for keeping the transmitter on and would worry about
offending those opposed to the war.  Yes, I know, this wouldn't happen
today due to advances in technology, but you probably get my point.

> And on of the reasons that nobody at headquarters got excited at the
> radar report was that they had heard the AM station broadcast and
> assumed that the planes were US.
>
> By the way, one of of our legendary broacast engineers in Alaska, Augie
> Hebert, was the first station outside Hawaii to announce the air raid.
> He used to switch his AM antenna to a receiver to do some DX'ing.  He
> was listening to that Hawai station when they announced the air raid.
> He immediately went on the air from Fairbanks and announced the attack.

Sad.  It's hard to believe in today's world of Twitter and texting
that it took considerable time for a story of this magnitude to reach
the rest of the country.

> He just recently died, a true radio and television engineering pioneer.

RIP.

John

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