[QCWA] Crosley station

[William M. Pasternak]

Another neat bit of trivia about WLW:  It is one of only two stations left 
in the United States using the unique "diamond shaped"  Blaw-Knox 
transmitting tower.  The other being WSM in Nashville TN (which was painted 
bright red the last time I passed by).

I believe there is only one other Blaw-Knox still in operation outside the 
USA -- some place in South America.

de
Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF


At 11:20 AM 3/14/05, you wrote:
>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
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