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Station Histories
Other sites with extensive station histories
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oldradio.com - Barry Mishkind's extensive old radio site. *
Stations by State *California
*Delano
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*Los Angeles
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*KFSG Los Angeles, CA *
*Modesto
*San Francisco Bay Area
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*San Luis Obispo
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*Sierra Madre
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*Connecticut
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*Florida
*THE MIGHTY 690 WAPE--Jacksonville. This was one of the Brennan Family stations like WVOK (along with Benns) and WBAM. WAPE was a red hot top 40 in the mid 60's witha powerful north-south signal from Jacksonville. The transmitter was home-made and the station was a daytimer only. 50,000 watts of red hot rock and roll, or as Dewey Philips of Memphis WHBQ might describe it, 'Red, Hot and Blue'. This is their original tansmitter schematic copied from a blue print at WFLI, a sister station. On a 36" wide presentation the print is a reverse of the original. This was a patented Weldon version of the Doherty circuit using grounded grid finals.
WAPE Schematic. Stanley Adams was here.
*On 10/12/09, Phil Beckman wrote, "WAPE was originally a 25,000 watt daytimer, not going 50k day until they added the 10k night signal, It, too was a home-built Brennan blaster with a pencil-thin beam over Jacksonville from Baldwin on the west."
*Idaho
*Illinois
*Indiana
*Fort Wayne
*WOWO
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*Kentucky
*Missouri
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*New Jersey
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*New York
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- WJZ - 1926 Wireless Word article describes the new WJZ 50kW transmitter. Scanned and contributed by Timothy Hughes. 10MB
*WOR New York. The Story of WOR's Original Transmitter, Stanley Adams, as printed in Radio Guide September 2005. 570k. This story came to Barry Mishkind by way of the grandson Cliff Uzmann who still lives in the greater NYC area. His grandfather George was a multi-disciplined fellow who ran code for the press syndicates as well as wrote stories on radio history and programming. Here is the original article from Cliff as submitted to me (Stan) upon which we based our story in RG from. Please observe the owners wishes to copyrights. Article by George Uzmann], Stanley Adams. I want to publically thank Barry for being a considerate encourager for many who have contributed to both Harold's Wiki and also to the http://www.oldradio.com web site. Barry is one among many. He is a standout.
*One of WOR's more famous announcers was Jean Shepherd. Page name “ftp://ftp.salemradiolabs.com/pub/srlabs/shep/” cannot end with a slash. are some air checks of him from the 1960s where he tells us about the wonders of Morse code and a visit to the NAB convention.
*Oregon
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*Pennsylvania
*Philadelphia
*WCAU-TV
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*Virginia
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*Washington
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International
- 2LO - Article from December 23, 1922 Amateur Wireless and Electronics describing 2LO, London. Contributed by Tim Hughes. 3.5MB. Also see http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/2lo/index.asp and http://homepage.ntlworld.com/martin.ellen/oa/Vintage%20BBC%20Transmitters.htm for more 2LO info.
- 5SC - Article from October 11, 1924 Amateur Wireless and Electronics describing 5SC, Glasgow. Contributed by Tim Hughes. 2.4MB
*LM Radio - The first radio station in Lourenco Marques began broadcasting on 18th March 1933 but suspended transmissions for a while in 1934 due to shortage of money. A South African, G J McHarryOffshore Radio - photo galleries of Radio Caroline and Laser 558.
*Radio Caroline - Broadcasting from the North Sea. See also Ross Revenge, Days of Radio Caroline
*XERF/XERB
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Station Memorabilia
*Radio Logo Land - Radio logo T shirts from the 1950s through 1970s.
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