[PVRCNC] A Dayton Special Tour, High Power EU stations

[Kent Winrich]

Greetings from Dusseldorf Germany!

While at Dayton, a fellow broadcast engineer buddy of mine and I drove down
to see the WLW tower.  It is a sight to behold.  Next year we are going to
get a tour inside to see the 1930s 500,000 W behemoth transmitter that the
station ran for a while, being the only US station with Super power. A good
story on WLW:  http://www.ominous-valve.com/wlw.html

On the way back, we drove into the old Betheny SW sight and were going to
take a few pictures.  There were a few people at the door and they invited
us inside.  Turns out one of the people there was one of the original
engineers of VOA SW (WLWO?WLWL Short Wave before the government bought out
the Crosley Family.).   And even better, is he was one of the engineers to
work on the 500,000 W BEAST that WLW ran.  I shot a number of pictures
(including pictures of some of the final tubes from the 500kW transmitter),
and also shot video of Clyde telling some of the stories of VOA and
WLW...... such as the game they would play with new guys at VOA..... they
would send out the new guy to do the manual antenna switching, but
"accidentally" leaving the 250kW transmitter running...... I am sure a
change of pants would be due after that.

If people are interested, I will post them up on my web site (after I edit
the video...in my SPARE time...heh).

Also, while in Europe, I got shots of the vertical "folded dipole" 2 tower
array of Netherlands 747 kHz that runs 400kW, and RTL Luxembourg that runs
1.2 MILLION watts on 1440 AM.  I am still trying to get to one of the 2
MILLION watt LW stations here.

So lets chat about QRO........

Kent
K9EZ portable....... um what day is it?