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Re: The Strange True Story of a Radio Station's Transmitter in New York State

by "Channel Cop" <nedrog@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aug 5, 2008 at 11:30 PM

<kb9rqz_1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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news:c89eec55-62c5-4fe9-b245-382061bef4cd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Aug 5, 9:24?pm, "Channel Cop" <kd8ctl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> <kb9rqz> wrote in message
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> news:7f48cee5-5c4e-41cc-bddc-1b5b5455c7cc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Aug 5, 7:05?pm, "Ed Cregger" <ecreg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > "javawizard" <javawiz...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>news:149f9f0e-86d6-40bb-971a-d763b5a35bb8@[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
>
> > --------------
>
> > 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 ***ual 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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Re: The Strange True Story of a Radio Station's Transmitter in N
kb9rqz_1@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-08-05 20:25:51 
Re: The Strange True Story of a Radio Station's Transmitter in N
"Channel Cop" &  2008-08-05 23:30:50 

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