[QCWA] Crosley station

[Dave Heil]

Norm Gertz wrote:
> 
> Thanks for jogging my memory......I also seem to remember that it radiated
> so much RF that the barbed wire fences in the area were absorbing it and
> people were getting singed with RF burns.
> 
> 73   Norm   K1AA
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "THOMAS & BEVERLY WEBB" <sam9lives at msn.com>
> To: "qcwa" <qcwa at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 9:52 AM
> Subject: [QCWA] Crosley station
> 
> I believe this was WLW in Cincinnati with 750 Kw on 700 Kc.
> 
> Tom Webb  W4YOK


It was indeed Powell Crosley's WLW, running 500 KW at Mason, Ohio, north
of Cincinnati.  I never heard any tales of RF burns from fences but
plenty of folks had tales of picking up the station without the
necessity of owning a radio.  All of it was outlined in the late Joe
Rice's (W4RHZ) books "Early Cincinnati Radio", published in 1970 but now
out of print.

Dave Heil K8MN
Cameron, WV