Tam wrote:

But WLW ran 500KW of 100% AM modulation. I understand just the
modulation transformer was the size of a room in order to handle the 250
KW of audio. I believe it was on 700 KHz. See the link I gave above.

The modulation transformer at VOA's Bethany relay station (located quite
near WLW's Mason, Ohio transmitter site) took up much of a very large
room. If you stood in that room, you could hear the transmitted audio
from the laminations. The sound was so loud that it was necessary to
shout to be heard over it.

Dave K8MN

Wow. We can learn something new every day. Joe Rice (W4RHZ) was one of my
idols when I had my first licenses during 1959-61. He was a key member of
NKARC (Northern Kentucky ARC). Google says his "Early Cincinnati Radio" was
privately published, so I am unlikely to run across a copy. (Ebay and
half.com, etc, have no hits for it.)

Bill
W2WO (Was K4DFO in those days)

Bill Ogden wrote:
Wow. We can learn something new every day. Joe Rice (W4RHZ) was one of my
idols when I had my first licenses during 1959-61. He was a key member of
NKARC (Northern Kentucky ARC). Google says his "Early Cincinnati Radio" was
privately published, so I am unlikely to run across a copy. (Ebay and
half.com, etc, have no hits for it.)

Bill
W2WO (Was K4DFO in those days)

Bill,

Yep, Joe was a Norwood boy who became a Northern Kentucky transplant.
I was WB4KTR when I moved from Miami to Fort Thomas in 1968. I didn't
meet Joe until coming back from the Air Force in 1972. He was my first
160m contact, good for about ten miles. :-)

I found the Early Cincinnati Radio at a used book store in downtown
Cincy in '73 or so. I have two other books by Joe which he inscribed to
me. One is called "Cincinnati's Powel Crosley". The other is entitled
"Early Norwood Radio"

Joe was a bit eccentric but he certainly knew his stuff about broadcast
radio. He was engineer at many of those Cincinnati area stations and
worked, at one time or another, for many of the electronic/radio
manufacturers in the area as well.

I, too, was an NKARC member until I moved across the river in 1977.

73,

Dave K8MN