Re: [IRCA] Esther Blodgett of WMCW-1600

["Neil Kazaross" <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Their studio is about a 50 min ride NW on US 14 for me..may I help you with 
their history of you are seriously interested ?

73 KAZ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles A Taylor" <MWDXer@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 8:19 PM
Subject: [IRCA] Esther Blodgett of WMCW-1600


> At 05:29 PM 4/5/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>> >From the Charles Lee Usher family genealogy website:
>>
>>Esther Elizabeth Blodgett, born 6 August 1902 in Illinois
>>- Founder of WMCW Harvard Radio, 1955-1979
>>- died 28 Sep 1987, buried in Harvard, McHenry, Illinois, Mt Auburn 
>>Cemetery
>>
>>QRM, the Krumudgeon
>
> John,
>
> Right on! Yes, I remember her as Esther Blodgett.
>
> However, I somehow placed her operation down-state, closer to Springfield.
>
> Understood that she didn't suffer the FCC well. Didn't fill out the
> appropriate FCC form for relicensing. But the FCC wasn't about to go
> against her, as her station was all that the FCC wanted a station to be.
>
> But that she operated WMCW-1600 is a surprise.
>
> First year in the Navy, I was in Electronics Technician school in
> Great Lakes, Illinois. Clearly remember hearing WMCW-1600 in R-390A
> class after clearing my set of its instructor-induced fault. The
> ET school had a longwire on the roof of the 6-story building, and
> encouraged the students to dial around on their R-390As (connected to
> the longwire via a multicoupler).
>
>>73 de AN4CAT
>
>
> Charles A Taylor, WD4INP
> Greenville, North Carolina
>
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