[CW] KPH Video = nice video if you've never worked at a larger coast station.

[Richard Knoppow]

    FWIW, there is some history about WSC but I don't remember 
the details. The call was originally at Siasconset Mass, I think 
a Marconi station. The Tuckerton N.J. station was operated by the 
German company that my memory says was Dabeg, but that may not be 
correct. I don't think it was Telefunken.
    At some point the WSC call was moved to Tuckerton and the 
Mass site discontinued. Perhaps at the time of the formation of 
RCA. Someone will know the whole history.
    KSM was the Globe Wireless station in Los Angeles. Evidently 
discontinued during WW-2 and never re-activated. Globe also 
operated KTK in San Francisco, which was combined sometime in the 
1960s with KFS, the MacKay station. Globe was the successor to 
Dollar Radio, the radio division of The Robert Dollar Lines 
created when the radio commission ruled that all wireless 
stations had to be open to public traffic. Dollar Radio was 
intended to handle only traffic from the Dollar steamship line 
(became American President Lines). Dollar and Globe originally 
had a number of stations on the Pacific coast and in Hawaii. With 
the advent of HF radio a lot of stations were closed since they 
were not needed for coverage. That may be what happened to the 
original WSC. Lots of musical chairs.

On 2/13/2020 4:15 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> Older KPH video when they were using KSM call sign.
> Great video. https://youtu.be/qN-r7PvvMAA
>
> Shows transmitters, antennas and operations.  Nice video.
>
> I worked at a smaller station, WSC in West Creek, NJ - all
> transmitters and receivers were at the same location.
>
> 73
>
> DR
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