[IRCA] Fwd: Topband: WLW

[Mark Connelly <markwa1ion@xxxxxxx>]

1.7 megawatts out of WLW was no doubt the highest power run by anyone in the Western Hemisphere on medium wave.


Duba, Saudi Arabia runs 2 megawatts on 1521 kHz all the time.  No wonder that it often screams in here on the coast of Massachusetts around local sunset, as in this recording:
<http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/dx_saudi_arabia-1521_20060503_2300z.mp3>
or this one:
<http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/audio1/dx_1521_saudi_arabia_20081029_2300z.mp3>


Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA


<<
>He told us it was put in for Crosley who got a bug in his butt to  see what
>the rig would really do. The meter showed the total current on the  three
>finals. One night he cranked it up as far as it would go. Keep in mind,  the
>voltage on the finals was 17,500 volts, as I remember. He got that meter up
>to 100 amps. Do the math. He burnt up some local fences that  night.
>
>Of course, 13 transmitters (with plug-in coils) each  running 220,000 watts
>simultaneously on several bands down the road at  VOA was astonishing, but
>that 1,700,000 watts at WLW was stuck in our minds  all the way home that
>night.  We were TopBand guys,  afterall!
>
>73, Best DX, Barry, W9UCW
>>
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