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Post by Druid Hills Radio on Nov 28, 2017 20:37:07 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2017 22:51:26 GMT
History Repeating in Miniature
The Radio World article ("A Most Unusual Transmitting Plant") linked by DHR is a great museum tour of the early days of medium wave when antennas were as unknown as they are now to part 15 and low power hobbyists. Even the technical terms are familiar, e.g., top-loading, balanced, un-balanced, ground system, horizontal, vertical...
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Post by Boomer on Nov 30, 2017 22:28:33 GMT
That's something, how WHK used burning gas jets for tower lighting, I don't think I'd heard that part of their story before. That's some real experimentation! Can you imagine if a gas line or insulated section cracked, and was on fire, maybe even due to lightning, and flared against the tower and weakened it, it could jacknife the tower.
Then again, engineers at the time might have known how to handle gas lighting, since it was popular before electricity was in homes. It always was interesting to me how my grandparent's house had gas pipes sticking out of the walls and capped by that time. In the bathroom with the tub with feet on it, was a gas space heater, which had been forcibly turned off by some kind of Gas Police who had come in and tagged it as unsafe.
"The Mad Daddy here at WHK, AM and FuM, don't be dumb."
Boomer
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