<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548904782438_171796"><span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548904782438_171797"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548904782438_171871">In 1962,I was 16 and I bought a large Truetone D-1144 console radio at The Salvation Army thrift store in Providence (Pitman St). I did a lot of broadcast band DXing on that radio. I got a stack of 3 x 5 cards and had one for each frequency from 540 to 1600 Kc (10 Kc intervals). On each card, I put all the stations received and the date. In the 1960's there were a lot of clear channel stations and I probably got them all - at least during the Winter. I still have those file cards somewhere in my basement, but the Truetone is long gone. I made an external BFO for this radio and worked the 80 meter Novice band (WN1AHM).<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548904782438_174221"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548904782438_174880"><img class="ymail-preserve-class inline-image-guid-92b36f81-5566-9d34-795d-42d8fbceed20 rte-inline-saved-image" src="cid:5034ed73-c8b7-1bc5-adb5-f78cfa556098@yahoo.com" data-id="inline-image-guid-92b36f81-5566-9d34-795d-42d8fbceed20" alt="Inline image" style="width:100%;max-width:370px;max-height:278px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548904782438_174515"><img class="ymail-preserve-class inline-image-guid-5e48b4e8-d56e-42be-7271-e7ec3576a65a rte-inline-saved-image" src="cid:a6440527-ff19-70b8-008b-f867f1e892e2@yahoo.com" data-id="inline-image-guid-5e48b4e8-d56e-42be-7271-e7ec3576a65a" alt="Inline image" style="width:100%;max-width:322px;max-height:241px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548904782438_174879"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548904782438_175766"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548904782438_175899">Dave Crowell, KA1EDP</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548904782438_175900"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548904782438_176794"><br></div><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548904782438_171875" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548904782438_171874"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548904782438_171873"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548904782438_171872"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548904782438_171882" size="2" face="Arial"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548904782438_171881" size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> fred tanner via Thursday <thursday@newsm.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Bob Smith <smirobert5@aol.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Terry Gmail via Thursday <Thursday@newsm.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 31, 2019 12:28 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Thursday] WLW History<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548904782438_171876"><br><div id="yiv2539507958"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548904782438_171880"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548904782438_171879"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548904782438_171878"><div class="yiv2539507958gmail_default" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548904782438_171877">I don't know who might receive this email. The stories told above remind me, so I must tell mine. As a little kid in 1954 I used to listen to DX on my Hallicrafters S-38C. I remember very well listening to KIEV AM Glendale CA one night (yes, from my bed on Tillinghast Rd.) I think it was a 250 watt station. I used a White's radio directory to look for and check off stations as I heard them. At the time, I wrote to the FCC Engineer in charge to tell him about his powerful signal, but don't recall hearing back from him.</div><div class="yiv2539507958gmail_default" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548904782438_174945"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv2539507958gmail_default" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548904782438_174661">fred</div></div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv2539507958gmail_quote"><div class="yiv2539507958yqt7213273425" id="yiv2539507958yqtfd73181"><div class="yiv2539507958gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 3:58 PM Bob Smith via Thursday <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:thursday@newsm.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:thursday@newsm.org">thursday@newsm.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="yiv2539507958gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><font size="2" face="arial" color="black">Thanks Chris,
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great stuff! I think this only went to me not the ,list so u may want to resend there...</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 31, 2019 2:36 PM<br clear="none">
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<div>I worked for WLW-C,the Columbus, Ohio TV station owned by Crosley. The senior staff members who had worked in <span style="font-size:10pt;">Cincinnati had fond memories </span>of Crosley. They said he was a generous employer. I joined the company just after
it was sold to a group owner whose interest was primarily financial. The "family" character of the company was replaced by a corporate model.</div>
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<div>I have one other memory, this one of the radio station. It offered a program of classical music called "Music Till Dawn" that ran from midnight till 7 am. I was in grad school at the time, and I wrote many a term paper with "Music Till Dawn" in the background.
An academic, Larry Lichty, who also a friend, wrote a history of WLW called "The Nation's Station."</div>
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<div>And, as a footnote, my father owned and drove a Crosley, one of the cars Crosley manufactured in his short-lived entry in the automobile business. It fun to drive, but noisy.</div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;">This IS cool...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;">When on the road at night, I often listen to super station "Zoomer radio" 740 AM in Toronto, one of "the few remaining clear channel stations in North America". Works for me! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;">As to this part: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;">"</span><span style="color:rgb(27,27,27);">some lights would not turn off until WLW engineers helped rewire houses. Gutters rattled loose from buildings. A neon hotel sign near
the transmitter never went dark. Farmers reported hearing WLW through their barbed-wire fences."</span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(27,27,27);">I'd like to know how the barbed wire fences made that audio...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;"></span>Night distant radio is just so cool... when I was a boy late at night in bed I'd listen to my GE tube clock radio and often get Nashville country stations...</div>
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Thanks Randy for sharing.</div>
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<div><font size="2" face="arial" color="black">WLW, "The Nation's Super-Station"....an interesting history indeed.....
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<div>As discussed in our small group today, there was a fascinating excerpt from a magazine that had been sitting on a table in the Mayes building for a while that I had read. It was about the growth of the radio station WLW from a home hobby-type endeavor
to the most powerful transmitter in the country. We have one of the tubes from this transmitter in the wireless building, sitting there with very little mention of its history. Here is a quick <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2015/mayjune/feature/in-the-1930s-radio-station-wlw-in-ohio-was-americas-one-and-only-sup">link</a>
to an article I found, although it's not the one I had read before, nor have I had the time to go through this one. There are also YouTube video tours of the facility that still contains a great deal of the equipment built for this 500kW station. This is
just one example of the great deal of history we have artifacts of, but no good presentation or explanation for visitors to learn from or appreciate. This story also ties into all of our Crosley radios as well. <br clear="all">
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