Re: WGY now non-directional but not always?

["Dan Strassberg" <Dan.Strassberg@worldnet.att.net>]

The Nevada nuclear tests affected MW skywave propagation. The AEC wanted to
know more. An obvious conclusion was that wherever propagation was affected
there were ionized, and possibly radioactive, particles aloft. The truth of
this assumption was later demonstrated when samples of a torrential summer
rainstorm in New York's Capital District (I got drenched in the storm; it
had not been forecast) were shown to emit radiation at an alarming level.

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Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net
Phone: 1-617-558-4205, eFax: 1-707-215-6367

-----Original Message-----
From: Sven Weil <sven@lily.org>
To: Martin J. Waters <mwaters@mail.wesleyan.edu>
Cc: Dan Strassberg <Dan.Strassberg@worldnet.att.net>;
boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: WGY now non-directional but not always?


>
>Can you explain this more clearly?  It sounds interesting.  I left both
>comments on purpose.
>
>Sven F. Weil
>e-mail: sven@lily.org
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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.
>>
>>
>>
>