[BC] Some historical questions - vertical radiator

[Larry Albert]

Have heard managers make statements similar to:

"sparing no expensive to obtain the finest
equipment available"

When shown estimated costs their words and goals quickly change.

Statements similar to this are seem to be made primarily for the PR value.


At 09:19 AM 6/19/06 -0400, you wrote:
>Thanks for the info on the Tuckerton Wireless Station, Bruce.  It does
>appear that series fed tower radiators were known back in 1912.  But there
>must have been more than expensive delaying their adoption by the domestic
>broadcasters.  I base this on what I've read about WEAF, which (then)
>wealthy AT&T built in 1922 "sparing no expensive to obtain the finest
>equipment available" (to quote one article), and I think the same could be
>said about Westinghouse's KDKA, WBZ, KYW and General Electric's WGY, KGO,
>KOA.  Yet all these stations used flat-top Ts.
>
>- Nat
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