On 9/12/2013 11:48 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
On 9/12/2013 4:06 PM, Herb Schoenbohm wrote:
the nation's station which was WLW for sure
Another interesting point -- WLW was a 50kW clear channel station, and
one of a handful that had their frequency to themselves at night for
all of North America,
In the 60's I used to do a jazz show on on a 1570 Khz radio daytimer
station in Golden Valley, MN which is now KYCR. I remember a station
which claimed to be in Del Rio, Texas but actually had a super high
power AM station located across the border in Mexico.. I think the call
sign was XERF
WLW shared the frequency with other stations, I believe one in Canada. I'm
pretty sure that is why they had to use a directional pattern at night.
Throughout a long history, WLW shared (and time shared) channels.
The tower is a diamond shaped half wave, which makes it electrically shorter
The radiated field of a vertical monopole present on the surface of lossy
earth decays at greater than a 1/R rate. But, for example, the field shown
at a horizontal distance of 0.1 km in my surface wave plot for an elevation
angle of 5 degrees is not located on the surface of the earth. It is
Go to this link:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/23847007/Radio-Engineers-Handbook-1943-Terman
...and then type page 686 at the box in the toolbar just above the page
display. It takes you to page 674 in the book.
73, Tony K4QE
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Richard Fry r...@adams.net wrote:
On 9/15/2013 13 13, Mike(W5UC) Kathy (K5MWH) wrote:
Hi Jim:
For Years I have believed that WSM, 650, was in that category. Goodness
knows, We can't miss the GRAND OLE OPRY
73,
Mike, W5UC
Regarding these stations, Wikipedia is your friend:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear-channel_station
