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![]() wrote in message ... On Aug 5, 9:24?pm, "Channel Cop" wrote: kb9rqz wrote in message ... On Aug 5, 7:05?pm, "Ed Cregger" wrote: "javawizard" wrote in message ... In the 1920's a radio station in Schenectady, NY built a powerful transmitter. In those days before FCC regulations, not knowing just how big to make a transmitter in order for the signal to be received some distance away, the station set up to broadcast at 500,000 watts. It requires about one watt to be received four blocks away. A cell phone is three watts. This station broadcast at such tremendous power that they could be heard around the world. People in New York didn't even need radios. They could sometimes hear voices in their furnaces and coming off chain-link fences. Light bulbs lit up in people's houses even if they were switched off. - fromwww.clip-text.com -------------- Can you imagine the cost of their electric bill? I used to pick up AM radio stations in my head. The theory back then was that it was due to dental work acting as a rectifier, etc. I could tell you exactly which song was playing and where they were at in the song. All one had to do was turn on a radio and I would be singing in sync with it. The really weird part was that all I could hear was the music and the time announcements. This was in the late 50's and early 60's when I lived in Carneys Point, NJ. The radio station that I heard the best was WAMS (1380kc) in Wilmington, DE. The second best was WFIL in Philadelphia, PA. The latter I heard after WAMS went off the air for the day. Ed, NM2K Morkie, I will conceed that you know two things that I will never know...What it's like to lick my excrement off of another man's genitals, and the going welfare rates in Michigan. Its interesting when someone tries to post something intelligent to this group, and some jerk has to answer it with a derogatory sexual remark!- FAKE I see that you have now forged my name (CC) to be associated with kd8ctl as posted above! what a jerk! |
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