Topband: and KDKA

[Jim Brown]

On 9/12/2013 4:06 PM, Herb Schoenbohm wrote:
> It might well have been WLW instead of KDKA and according the the 
> story I recall it had something to do with the "nation's station" 
> which was WLW for sure.  I think that for national defense in 1932 it 
> was granted a 500,000 watt power level. 

I worked at WLWT while an EE student, and our senior class got a great 
tour of both WLW AM and the Crosley-run VOA site a few miles away. The 
500 kW TX was still there (late 1963 or early 1964) and they fired it up 
into a dummy load for us (cooled by circulating water to a big pool 
outside).  I think I remember that it was an experimental license, 
rarely if ever on the air.  Some research might prove my memory wrong. :)

73, Jim K9YC