[v7arcssbnet] [V7ARC] Voice of America 80th Anniversary

[Douglas Ducote]

With regards to WA6IFI's email:

Amateur Logic TV did an extended tour of the Bethany Relay VOA site in Ohio
and posted a 45 minute video on YouTube. I believe the fella's name is
George Thomas, W5JDX. He has a very strong background in broadcast
engineering and does a pretty good job of pointing out some amazing
transmitter related points without going full nerd. The video is worth
looking up and watching - make sure to have a good sized cup of coffee.

Off topic, but still related to broadcast history and VOA - Randy, K7AGE,
did a video tour of WLW. He included some information about the period of
time that the station ran 500,000W. That power level led to an
injunction being filed by the Canadian government. The connection is that
WLW's owner/designing engineer was one Powel Crosley, Jr. Mr. Crosley was
later solicited by the US government to help design VOA stations for
counter-propaganda operations against AXIS powers in WW2. My best guess at
a paraphrase of the solicitation would go something like this: "Mr.
Crosley, you built a hell of a flamethrower at WLW. Could you please help
us build something even more ridiculous to talk over Adolf's lunacy
anywhere in the world from Ohio?"

I think I'll be re-watching both of those videos this week...

73,
Doug

*Douglas R. Ducote*, CBTE
doug at ad0tp.net
719-496-8446


On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 11:08 AM Lee Davis <leed383rr at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> I worked the station W8O yesterday on 20 m. That station is located in
> Cincinnati Ohio.
>
> Thanks,
> Lee
>
> > On Feb 16, 2022, at 1:02 AM, Steve Schaarschmidt <shakeastick at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Village Seven,
> >
> > As I mentioned on the Saturday-night 2-meter SSB net, I've been listening
> > to 40- and 20-meter SSB on a Heathkit SB-300 in the living room for a few
> > days now...
> >
> > Here's a bit of news that I heard just by browsing the 'fone bands today:
> >
> > The Voice of America shortwave broadcasting service is 80 years old as of
> > this month.
> > Three special-event amateur stations - W3V, W8O and W4A - are operating
> > this weekend (Feb 19-20, 2022) in celebration of this anniversary.
> >
> > In case links get blocked,
> > please look for wc8voa [dot] org [slash] voa80 [slash]
> > for details.
> > Or, search for Voice of America 80th Anniversary as I did.
> >
> > Seems like a cool thing to look for!
> > If you work any of these special event stations, please tell us!
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > = Steve KØCI
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