On Aug 5, 9:24=EF=BF=BDpm, "Channel Cop" <kd8ctl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Aug 5, 7:05?pm, "Ed Cregger" <ecreg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "javawizard" <javawiz...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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?
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> > I used to pick up AM radio stations in my head. The theory back then
wa=
s
> > that it was due to dental work acting as a rectifier, etc.
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> > I could tell you exactly which song was playing and where they were at
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in
> > the song. All one had to do was turn on a radio and I would be singing
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in
> > sync with it. The really weird part was that all I could hear was the
> > music
> > and the time announcements.
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> > 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=
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> > DE.
> > The second best was WFIL in Philadelphia, PA. The latter I heard after
> > WAMS
> > went off the air for the day.
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> > 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 ***ual remark!-
FAKE
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