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Who remembers WWVA Wheeling West Va? 50,000 watt AM radio? Now let us know really how old you are! :devilgrin: PJ
 
PAUL161 said:
Who remembers WWVA Wheeling West Va? 50,000 watt AM radio? Now let us know really how old you are! :devilgrin: PJ
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I’ll confess to listening to WOWO in Fort Wayne, IN as a kid. I believe that WOWO and WWVA shared the same transmitter.
I have great memories of building a crude radio with a selenium diode (in place of a crystal) and a cardboard toilet paper tube wrapped with wire to make a coil. I would ground it and with my headset be able to pick up WOWO from where I grew up in NY.
I always couldn’t wait for the next issue of Popular Electronics to arrive. They were fun times.
 
I graduated from the paper roll coil rig to a Hallicrafters SX-99 around age eleven or so. Put up huge antennas, could get many clear channel stations. The two "big" Chicago AM ones, Detroit's CKLW, Cleveland before the KYW/ WKYC debacle was discovered (and Jay Lawrence made his off-color broadcast...heard that live). Wheeling and Youngstown would boom in and KDKA was in the back yard.

Yup. I'm old.
 
DrEntropy said:
I graduated from the paper roll coil rig to a Hallicrafters SX-99 around age eleven or so. Put up huge antennas, could get many clear channel stations. The two "big" Chicago AM ones, Detroit's CKLW, Cleveland before the KYW/ WKYC debacle was discovered (and Jay Lawrence made his off-color broadcast...heard that live). Wheeling and Youngstown would boom in and KDKA was in the back yard.

Yup. I'm old.
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Your not old just very, very mature :bananawave:
I also graduated to CB, CW and all sorts of electrical projects. I used to beg my mom to drive me out to Lafayette Electronics so I could buy components.... no order online back then.
 
PAUL161 said:
Who remembers WWVA Wheeling West Va? 50,000 watt AM radio? Now let us know really how old you are! :devilgrin: PJ
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I grew up in central WV, but was only a young boy. I'm sure we listened to it, but I don't recall those call letters. I do, however, remember the TV station WBOY. By the way, since there still is a WWVA operating, you don't have to be very old to remember it LOL!
 
When in high school in 1956 I had an old 1940 Chevy coupe which naturally had an AM radio, the only usable station was WWVA Wheeling WV! :thumbsup2:
 
Gliderman8 said:
Your not old just very, very mature :bananawave:
I also graduated to CB, CW and all sorts of electrical projects. I used to beg my mom to drive me out to Lafayette Electronics so I could buy components.... no order online back then.
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Nah, he's old. :ROFLMAO:
 
John Turney said:
All our stations start with K.
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"Western" states. Not sure where the divide was. Maybe the Mississippi River? One of the others here should know.
 
K vs W? Blame the Radio Act of 1912, President Taft, and his merry band of radio pirates!

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(That's me speaking into the telephone earpiece ...)

The Radio Act of 1912


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Per the 1912 act, the west (blue) normally had K calls and the east (red) normally had W. The middle area (yellow) received W calls from 1912 until January 1923, when a boundary shift to the Mississippi River transferred it to K territory. Many changes since then!

OK - back to my nap.
 
NutmegCT said:
K vs W? Blame the Radio Act of 1912, President Taft, and his merry band of radio pirates!

Radio_station_WJAZ%2C_Chicago%2C_%27wave_pirates%27_publicity_photograph_%281926%29.jpg


(That's me speaking into the telephone earpiece ...)

The Radio Act of 1912


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Per the 1912 act, the west (blue) normally had K calls and the east (red) normally had W. The middle area (yellow) received W calls from 1912 until January 1923, when a boundary shift to the Mississippi River transferred it to K territory. Many changes since then!

OK - back to my nap.
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Remind me to never play Trivial Pursuit with you!
 
Only Lamont Cranston knows ...


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I'm young enough that the only AM radio station I really remember listening to was KOMA out of Oklahoma City.
 
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