Re: WGY now non-directional but not always?

[Sven Weil <sven@lily.org>]

Can you explain this more clearly?  It sounds interesting.  I left both
comments on purpose.

Sven F. Weil
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Martin J. Waters wrote:

> >Dan Strassberg wrote:
> <snip>
> >In those days, WGY operated around the clock, as did all other US 50-kW
> >stations that operated ND at night. The purpose was sky-wave monitoring at a
> >time when the AEC was conducting tests of nuclear devices in the Nevada
> >desert.
> <snip>
> 
>         For the young'uns on the list here, I think it might be useful to
> point out that, if I have this correct, Dan is saying that it was not at
> all common back in those bomb-test happy 1950s days for even big-time
> big-market stations to stay on all night. Therefore, the non-DA I-As and
> I-Bs were "asked" ? or "told" ? to broadcast 24 hours a day to do their
> part for the Cold War by facilitating the monitoring of the nuclear tests
> on medium-wave radio transmissions.
> 
> 
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