[BC] WLW Superpower Coverage (slightly off-topic)

[khcs@juno.com]

Rob recalled:

>I was thinking that if 500 kw ever made sense, it made more sense then, 
compared to now.   while the g/w area wasn't much bigger apparently, radio 
as an electronic entertainment medium was in a completely different 
situation then, with only live entertainment and motion pictures for 
competition.   I think there were more average listeners (as opposed to 
hobby dxers) who sought out skywave signals in the evening hours, and maybe the 500 kw did make a difference in skywave reception.

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As well it might.  I never heard WLW during their 500-kW days.  But, when I was a kid living on a farm outside of Loveland, CO, I remember every Saturday night we would gather around the 1936 Zenith radio and my dad would tune in the "Grand Old Opry" from WSM and when that was done, the "National Barn Dance" on WLS.  And after that, some bizarre stuff from XELO "Clint, Texas" and XEG. I remember Homer and Jethro, Grandpa Jones, Minnie Pearl, etc.  Now, "country" music is a rock band with cowboy hats and a nasal twang.  Back then, it was REALLY country!  Sometimes, for nostalgia's sake, I log on to 
http://www.cowboyculturalsociety.com for some real Western music.  (Country & Western (C&W) is actually two different styles of music.)

Glen Kippel
KHCS
Palm Desert, CA