Re: [Swprograms] Bye-bye, 1440 Broadway

["Richard Cuff" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had my uncle's 1934 White's Radio Log (not sure if it's still around -- 
it's been years since I saw it) and he regularly got the US west coast -- 5
kw, thank you very much -- in Niagara Falls, NY.

RDC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Shortwave programming discussion" <swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Swprograms] Bye-bye, 1440 Broadway


> OK...thanks.
>
> Say, can you imagine where 50kW (or 50 M) got you in those days?
According to Jerry Berg's book, east coast Australian MW radio stations were
heard quite regularly on ECNA and vice-versa.  Now, THOSE were the days!
>
> John Figliozzi
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Richard Cuff <richard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thursday, August 26, 2004 6:39 am
> Subject: Re: [Swprograms] Bye-bye, 1440 Broadway
>
> > M -- the latin "mille" -- means thousand.  One of my employers
> > preferred it
> > to K -- the Greek "kilo".
> >
> > Rich C
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "John Figliozzi" <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "Shortwave programming discussion" <swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 11:07 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Swprograms] Bye-bye, 1440 Broadway
> >
> >
> > > Joe:
> > >
> > > I have a 1931-32 midwinter edition of White's Radio Log which
> > shows WOR
> > > licensed to Bamberger, located in Newark and using 25kW, but
> > with a
> > > note saying "50 M watts experimentally".  (?!)
> > >
> > > John Figliozzi
> > >
> > > On Tuesday, August 24, 2004, at 09:22  AM, Joe Buch wrote:
> > >
> > > > At 08:55 AM 8/23/04 -0400, Joel Rubin wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> (It occurs to me that because of their low frequency, they
> > escaped> >> North American MW reallocation in 1941 so they must
> > have been on 710
> > > >> for quite some time.)
> > > >>
> > > > The oldest reference in my library is a 1932 October - 1933
> > January> > edition of White's Radio Log.  It shows WOR licensed to
> > Bamberger> > Broadcasting Services, Inc. Newark, NJ with 5000
> > watts on 710 K. C.
> > > > (KHz had not yet been invented).  A note indicated that there
> > was an
> > > > outstanding construction permit for WOR to go to 50 K. W.
> > > >
> > > > Anybody have an older reference?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ~*-.,_,.-*~'^'~*-.,_,.-*~'^'~*-.,
> > > > Joe Buch
> > > > -*~'^'~*-.,_,.-*~'^'~*-.,_,.-*~'^
> > > >
> > > >
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