On Aug 5, 7:05=EF=BF=BDpm, "Ed Cregger" <ecreg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "javawizard" <javawiz...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> > 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
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> 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
mus=
ic
> and the time announcements.
>
> This was in the late 50's and early 60's when I lived in Carneys Point,
N=
J.
> 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
WA=
MS
> 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.
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