50,000 Watts of Tradition: WOWO 1190 AM
Priest
of studios, transmitters and staff through the decades and audio clips
of station IDs, jingles and interviews. http://www.historyofwowo.com/
Priest
outstanding! http://www.historyofwowo.com/qsls.html
cuh...@webtv.net
I am goin to bed.Move over doggy.You wants ah cookie?
WOO WOO WOOF!
cuhulin
Gregg
Cool! That is going to be some good reading. Do you care to do "The
Nations Station" ie, "The Big One"?:-)
700 WLW Baby, even Hitler hated us "Cincinnatian's" because of WLW. If
you don't, I will find some info, I used to have a folder on WLW's
history and it's now in one of my many drawers - Ha!
Priest
> Cool! That is going to be some good reading. Do you care to do "The
> Nations Station" ie, "The Big One"?:-)
>
> 700 WLW Baby, even Hitler hated us "Cincinnatian's" because of WLW. If
> you don't, I will find some info, I used to have a folder on WLW's
> history and it's now in one of my many drawers - Ha!
I can't take any credit for the site, my involvement with the project
is only that of an interested visitor.
From their website: "The History of WOWO.com is a labor of love by
several former WOWO Radio staffers and Fort Wayne radio history buffs.
Many of the sounds and images on this site have been submitted by
visitors like you!
We are actively seeking new material such as WOWO airchecks, jingles
and photos. If you have any material, please contact us and share it!
We are also interested in your comments and suggestions on how we can
improve the History of WOWO.com. "
And yes WLW is truly a historic station, it would be fantastic if a
similar site devoted to it would be created.
dxAce
Priest wrote:
I've sat in the studio while Bob Sievers (SK W9FJT) did his morning program
and hung around the transmitter site when I was a kid. My grandparents farm
was a stones throw away, and on occasion Grandpa would mow the area around the
towers.
dxAce
Michigan
USA
Gregg
> Priest wrote:
> > Very cool site has the history of radio station WOWO 1190 AM; photos
> > of studios, transmitters and staff through the decades and audio clips
>
> I've sat in the studio while Bob Sievers (SK W9FJT) did his morning program
> and hung around the transmitter site when I was a kid. My grandparents farm
> was a stones throw away, and on occasion Grandpa would mow the area around the
> towers.
>
Steve, that is pretty close to my story with WLW, though I never
actually "physically" sat in the studio.
My grandparents/greatparents built the first house in a area called
Pisgah, which is right down the road from - - at the time - WLW's
studio and their bad ass looking antenna emblazoned with the "WLW"
letters (still there and used) on it. Of course with the VOA Bethany
Shortwave Station right by it - it was unbelievable to see as a kid -
I had no idea what shortwave radio was when I was five/six yrs. old.
At night time it was nothing but lights and wires as far as you could
see and the power from the VOA overrode my dad's old car radio when he
pulled over to the side of the road - that's when it was explained to
me by my Dad what the VOA was about. That is pretty cool childhood
memories you have of there, I wish I could have sat in their studio as
a kid.
amdx
"Priest" <asswi...@138mail.com> wrote in message
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> Very cool site has the history of radio station WOWO 1190 AM; photos
> of studios, transmitters and staff through the decades and audio clips
> of station IDs, jingles and interviews. http://www.historyofwowo.com/
Don't they have some weather check from the famous WOWO fire escape?
Mike
bpnjensen
Huh! You guys are lucky - all I had was a measly two-bit 1,000 watt
station/xmtr in Gardner, Massachusetts - WGAW - to hang around at. We
used to visit with Bob Maddox while he did his evening pop program at
the station for the 10-or-so mile radius WGAW could normally reach.
It might have been more at night, but it was required to drop to 250
watts.
Bruce
DEFCON 88
WLW actually transmitted 500,000 watts for a while!
cuh...@webtv.net
Holland,Michigan, somehow her car went airborne and her car landed at an
angle on some power pole guy wires/cables.
cuhulin
bpnjensen
There's just no accounting for what happens in Holland.
dave
Didn't WOWO give up their night coverage for a sister station back East?
Gregg
>
> - Show quoted text -
Indeed it did, there is no way I'm going to go through and dig out all
that info, I know me, and I'll start reading everything in site and it
will be a couple weeks before I get to it.:-)
I'll find the links, it only takes a little time but I can't do it
tonight or tomorrow. My Grandparentls - and by that I mean BOTH of
them told me similiar stories of the The Nation's Station pumped out
the wattage and their neighbors both basically said the same things.
You could hear WLW in your basement, you could hear WLW in your shower
or bath when the water was either running or had been run (without a
radio), you could hear them in the garage. My Grandparents weren't
anyone to bullshit things or exaggerate a story to make it sound
better and I know for a fact the neighbors wouldn't have done that - -
plus the stories from my Dad.
The German's and Hitler felt that Cincinnati was the huge thorn in
their side coming from the states. Ha!
Can you imagine? Half a million watts? Especially during the time when
that area wasn't anything but farmland and cornfields...lol....my
grandparents were right there. The look of that VOA Bethany Relay at
nighttime was absolutely unbelievable.
Brenda Ann
"Gregg" <gk...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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Can you imagine? Half a million watts? Especially during the time when
that area wasn't anything but farmland and cornfields...lol....my
grandparents were right there.
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In the 1930's, that was indeed a real accomplishment. Now, not so much.
There is a MW station (972 KHz) just a few Km from here that runs 1.5 MW.
And that's not even the largest in Korea. With even a stub of an antenna on
my SW-8, it comes in at about 60dB/S9..
dave
> "Gregg"<gk...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:221a1903-5419-4b57...@g30g2000yqc.googlegroups.com...
>
> Can you imagine? Half a million watts? Especially during the time when
> that area wasn't anything but farmland and cornfields...lol....my
> grandparents were right there.
>
> *******************************************************************************
>
> In the 1930's, that was indeed a real accomplishment. Now, not so much.
>
Better coolant in the heat exchanger maybe...
Brenda Ann
"dave" <da...@dave.dave> wrote in message
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The basic innards haven't changed all that much, but the envelope technology
definately has. The tubes they used in the 30's were huge glass bottles (R.
Peking used to have finals that you could go inside of and change the
elements, rather than replace the tubes!). In places where they still use
tubes at all (not very many anymore), the things tend to be much smaller
ceramic types. By far the most popular technology for AM broadcast is now
modular banks of high power MOSfets.
dave
>>
>
> The basic innards haven't changed all that much, but the envelope technology
> definately has. The tubes they used in the 30's were huge glass bottles (R.
> Peking used to have finals that you could go inside of and change the
> elements, rather than replace the tubes!). In places where they still use
> tubes at all (not very many anymore), the things tend to be much smaller
> ceramic types. By far the most popular technology for AM broadcast is now
> modular banks of high power MOSfets.
>
>