[Boatanchors] Transmitter on LSD

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Ring" <w3nu at roadrunner.com>
To: "Rob Atkinson" <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>
Cc: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>; "Mark Foltarz" 
<Foltarz at rocketmail.com>
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Transmitter on LSD


>
> On 5/20/2013 2037, Rob Atkinson wrote:
>> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 5:43 PM,  <telegrapher at q.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> I wonder  if that thing sold and how much it went for.
>>>
>>> Larry
>>> W0OGH
>> it belongs to Jerry KC8ZUL and it was just there for 
>> people to look
>> at.  I don't think he wants to sell it.  Once you walk 
>> around and look
>> at everything in the back you get over the way the front 
>> looks
>> quickly.
>>
>> Rob
>> K5UJ
>>
>
> Anyone know how and when it got that way in front?
>

    A guess only; a lot of smaller radio stations had their 
studios and transmitters at the same location.  The 
transmitter was often on display.  Perhaps the management 
thought the cartoon would appeal to visiting advertisers. 
Westinghouse had an ad in QST c.1948 for a new broadcast 
transmitter which said that among its features was 
_showmanship_.  Sometime around the late 1930s broadcast 
transmitter makers began to use industrial designers to make 
their rigs attractive.  A big change from the old black 
boxes and big meters of the early days.  Maybe someone can 
trace the provenance of this TX and find out what station or 
stations used it and perhaps something about them.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com