[BC] WLW my take

[DHultsman5@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/20/2005 8:35:29 AM Central Standard Time,  
fredg at salemradiolabs.com writes:

I can't  imagine any commercial broadcaster investing the kind of money that 
that  500 kW plant cost just for the sake of 'quietly' submitting data to the 
 
FCC.  It required a new transmitter design, new approaches to RF  system 
engineering -- all sorts of 'cutting edge' tech.  *Of course*  they made a 
big 
splash about it in public.  I think any other  broadcaster (then or now) 
would 
have done the same.  That is the  business we're in, after all:  publicity!  
How else to recoup  your investment?

Cheers!



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We can assume that Powell Crosley  had the money.  Obiviously the  building 
of their own 5 kW. Crosley transmitter which claimed to be the only  
transmitter ever made with frequency response from 20 to 20,000 cycles per  second audio 
frequency response.  It was my understanding they used this  transmitter 
until they bought their Continental 317C.
 
Also WLW actually owned the shortwave transmitter that became the VOA  
Bethany, Ohio transmitting stations.  Crosley owned that commercial  international 
shortwave station as did CBS, NBC and General Electric with KGEI  on the west 
coast.  The shortwave call sign was WLW*  (another  letter).  In that plant was 
a three band transmitter that was designed and  built by Crosley  that used 
one plate modulator for the three RF  amplifiers.
 
Dave