[Amps] Foster Transformer Company

Pete Smith N4ZR pete.n4zr at gmail.com
Fri Nov 10 16:59:06 EST 2023


Horizontally, too.  I briefly had a 1950s Crosley automobile, which some 
friends and I dismantled to build a 4-cylinder dragster

73, Pete N4ZR

On 11/10/2023 3:18 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 11/10/2023 6:16 AM, Randall, Randy wrote:
>> Crosley was vertically integrated
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> In addition to WLW on 700 kHz, WLWT on channel 5, and the massive 
> Voice Of America station mid-way between Cincy and Dayton, they also 
> sold consumer products under that brand name. Growing up in the '40s 
> and '50s, I remember my grandmother having a Crosley table radio.
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> And we drove 4 hours from  WV to watch the Cincinnati Reds played at 
> Crosley Field. From a history of the ballpark on the internet, I 
> learned that Powel Crosley, "who earned his wealth in the radio and 
> automobile industries, bought the Reds in 1934."
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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