[BC] Conelrad

[Robert Paine]

 In my research on WTHT and other Hartford stations, I found an article about Conelrad in the early 1950's. Since WTHT didn't go silent till 2/1954, the station was involved in the program.
 WTIC chief engineer Herman Taylor was in charge of the program on the radio side. There were five stations that made up the Hartford cluster:
 
WDRC  1360  5000
WPOP   1410  5000
WTIC    1080  50000
WCCC  1290  5000 (I think it might have been included though only parttime since it was daytime only.)
  Imagine these stations have to retune their transmitters to 1240. I'd have opted for an older unit set to the frequency instead of doing whatever had to be done to the main unit.
 
  THEN there was the smallest station, WTHT. Ringo antenna atop its building. RCA transmitter, 250 watts.
  And its frequency?
  1230 kilocycles!
  Being very non-technical, I wonder if maybe WTHT might have had the fewest problems matching the frequency to the antenna?
 
 Ah, for the good old days....
 
Bob Paine, still having 1000 hz tone nightmares a half-century later.
 Thanks, Conelrad. :)