RadioBanter - 50,000 Watts of Tradition: WOWO 1190 AM

On Apr 2, 2:19*pm, DEFCON 88 wrote:
On Apr 2, 7:18*am, Gregg wrote:

On Apr 2, 4:00*am, dxAce wrote:

Priest wrote:
Very cool site has the history of radio station WOWO 1190 AM; photos
of studios, transmitters and staff through the decades and audio clips
of station IDs, jingles and interviews.http://www.historyofwowo.com/

I've sat in the studio while Bob Sievers (SK W9FJT) did his morning program
and hung around the transmitter site when I was a kid. My grandparents farm
was a stones throw away, and on occasion Grandpa would mow the area around the
towers.

*Steve, that is pretty close to my story with WLW, though I never
actually "physically" sat in the studio.

My grandparents/greatparents built the first house in a area called
Pisgah, which is right down the road from - - at the time - WLW's
studio and their bad ass looking antenna emblazoned with the "WLW"
letters (still there and used) on it. Of course with the VOA Bethany
Shortwave Station right by it - it was unbelievable to see as a kid -
I had no idea what shortwave radio was when I was five/six yrs. old.

At night time it was nothing but lights and wires as far as you could
see and the power from the VOA overrode my dad's old car radio when he
pulled over to the side of the road - that's when it was explained to
me by my Dad what the VOA was about. That is pretty cool childhood
memories you have of there, I wish I could have sat in their studio as
a kid.

WLW actually transmitted 500,000 watts for a while!

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Indeed it did, there is no way I'm going to go through and dig out all
that info, I know me, and I'll start reading everything in site and it
will be a couple weeks before I get to it.:-)

I'll find the links, it only takes a little time but I can't do it
tonight or tomorrow. My Grandparentls - and by that I mean BOTH of
them told me similiar stories of the The Nation's Station pumped out
the wattage and their neighbors both basically said the same things.

You could hear WLW in your basement, you could hear WLW in your shower
or bath when the water was either running or had been run (without a
radio), you could hear them in the garage. My Grandparents weren't
anyone to bull**** things or exaggerate a story to make it sound
better and I know for a fact the neighbors wouldn't have done that - -
plus the stories from my Dad.

The German's and Hitler felt that Cincinnati was the huge thorn in
their side coming from the states. Ha!

Can you imagine? Half a million watts? Especially during the time when
that area wasn't anything but farmland and cornfields...lol....my
grandparents were right there. The look of that VOA Bethany Relay at
nighttime was absolutely unbelievable.