Thanks for the participation in the WMAL Tour

[Brian Hawes]

Thanks for the pictures. Interesting to see what you are all doing.
Richard: did you grab one of those vac caps for me as well?

Brian
G2KQ
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From: tacos-bounces+hawes=herald.ox.ac.uk at amrad.org [tacos-bounces+hawes=herald.ox.ac.uk at amrad.org] On Behalf Of Bob Rice, KG4RRN [kg4rrn at yahoo.com]
Sent: 18 March 2011 17:18
To: tacos at amrad.org
Subject: Thanks for the participation in the WMAL Tour

All~
Seeing that information, the station we just visited yesterday is now THE OLDEST
continous operating AM station in the D.C. area.
Mr. David Sproul, the engineer, who gave us the guiided tour replied he is not a ham licensee, sad, but I will write back and encourage him to get licensed.
Since he is an up-coming helicopter pilot, I would like to tell him a ham license might
 save his life one day. If anyone else wants to write him, they may contact him on  e-mail at david.sproul at citcomm.com<mailto:david.sproul at citcomm.com>

I have downloaded all of the pics I took yesterday, and have recieved some as well.
Does someone want to archive all of them, and put them into a "tour of WMAL" slideshow?
I am going to West Virginia this afternoon, so I will be checking my e-mail once I get there.
If anyone wants to check into the NVTN, I am the Net Control on Saturday.
The repeater is 147.300+ and no PL.
I start the net at 7:30pm.
Enclosed are just a few of the 'best of the best' I took yesterday.
I know the policy on attachments, but I would appreciate everyone seeing these few pics.

73 all,
Bob Rice, KG4RRN
kg4rrn at arrl.net
A Notary Public, VA.
Vice President,
Jefferson Co. WV. Amateur Radio Club


--- On Fri, 3/18/11, Karl W4KRL <W4KRL at arrl.net> wrote:

From: Karl W4KRL <W4KRL at arrl.net>
Subject: W and K callsigns
To: "'Tacos'" <tacos at amrad.org>
Date: Friday, March 18, 2011, 11:04 AM


The visit to the WMAL transmitter site was a reminder that many callsigns meant something at one time. WMAL was founded by the M. A. Leese Optical Company. The station website has a good history as does Wikipedia. WTTG was named for Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr, DuMont Network’s chief engineer. My hometown Chambersburg has stations WCHA and WCBG.



An excellent website for radio history is http://earlyradiohistory.us/



There is an interesting article about Washington DC AM station history: http://earlyradiohistory.us/hist-dc.htm



Also some recent articles about the W & K prefixes and three letter callsigns:



http://earlyradiohistory.us/recap.htm



http://earlyradiohistory.us/3myst.htm



73 Karl W4KRL
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