Thanks for the participation in the WMAL Tour

[Richard O'Neill]

  Nope, but I'd liked to have. The sight of all those glass caps 
quickened my pulse too. I was curious to know their capacitance. Some 
day I'd like to match one to an ultra high Q 1100/48 litz coil. Who 
knows, I might find one lurking in a dusty old cardboard box at 
Hamvention. =-O

Richard


On 3/18/2011 5:15 PM, Brian Hawes wrote:
> 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
> ________________________________________
> 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
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> --- On Fri, 3/18/11, Karl W4KRL<W4KRL at arrl.net>  wrote:
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> 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
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> 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.
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> An excellent website for radio history is http://earlyradiohistory.us/
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> There is an interesting article about Washington DC AM station history: http://earlyradiohistory.us/hist-dc.htm
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> Also some recent articles about the W&  K prefixes and three letter callsigns:
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> http://earlyradiohistory.us/recap.htm
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> http://earlyradiohistory.us/3myst.htm
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> 73 Karl W4KRL
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