[BC] McLendon - Glenn Callison - Memories

[Dave Hultsman]

In a message dated 2/18/2010 9:53:56 AM Central Standard Time, harold at hallikainen.com writes:
>I spent a lot of
>time on the phone with Ralph. The company at that time was, I believe,
>Cohen and Dippel.
Harold:
 
I believe you and I have discussed Homer Odom and Billie Odom before.  Billie was Gordons secretary for many years. I think she was already divorced from Homer and he was at KABL in the early day as I recall.
 
Anyway,  Ralph Dippel was a partner in the firm Geoge C. Davis in Washington. Later on Ralph and Julius Cohen purchased the firm from the retired Davis.  The firm then became Cohen & Dippel.  Ralph was Glenn and Gordon's consultant.  Gordon came up with a thousand ideas for radio in many areas, technical, promotions, formats etc.  Ideas were always being thrown out for information.  Probably even before his bouts with the FCC in Washington,  the company probably spent a considerable amount of money on engineering consulting with Ralph and legal consulting  with Cohn & Marks.  Stan Cohen and McLendon would sit down and negotiate the bill each year over a bottle of Scotch.
 
On your question about the resistor in the 1400 kHz. tower.  I remember Glenn working on one in Louisianna where the station had applied to build a 500 foot tower for their 1450 AM and a new Class A FM.  When they got the CP, the FCC reduced the daytime power to below 1 kW and the nightime to below 250 Watts due to the theoretical increased efficiency of the taller tower with both stations on it.
 
Glenn an I went down there and made field intensity measurments on eight radials out 10 miles and his analysis showed the the FCC conductivity charts and curves for the area were not correct and got the stations power back up to 1 kW. day and 250 watts at night.  The claim was the station on their old 300 foot tower never made the theoretical efficiency either.  They redid the applications for license with the measurements on the eight radials and got their power back.  It cost some money.
 
Dave Hultsman