[Thursday] WLW History

[fred tanner]

In that same time period I listened to WWVA on a car radio from Maine to
California and all points in between, at night.

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 17:55 Ernie via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org wrote:

> All,
> For me it was a little 9 volt transistor ( seems I remember 9) radio
> sitting in my Mom's VW bug (it had no radio) at night while she was selling
> books to people that had sent in interest cards.
> About 1961, usually Saturday nights and my favorite station was WWVA
> Wheeling West Virginia. I thought the country music was kool.
> All from just over in eastern CT.
>
> Ernie
>
>
> On Thursday, January 31, 2019, 1:37:54 PM EST, Randall Snow via Thursday <
> thursday at newsm.org> wrote:
>
>
> 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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