[Thursday] WLW History

[Randall Snow]

Guys,

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 link
<https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2015/mayjune/feature/in-the-1930s-radio-station-wlw-in-ohio-was-americas-one-and-only-sup>
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.

-- 
Randy Snow

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