Re: radio in '22

[Cooper Fox <fox893@yahoo.com>]

Isn't there KDKA?  The only station east if the
mississippi that has  K*** callsign instead of a
w***....

> 
> As Donna Halper will tell you, 1922 was a banner
> year 
> for radio station startups. I'm guessing that, in
> the 
> United States, several hundred stations went on the
> air 
> for the first time in 1922. Only a handful have
> survived 
> and of those, an even smaller number retain their 
> original calls. One that I know of is WHAZ in Troy
> NY. 
> The other pioneer station in same market as WHAZ,
> WGY, 
> Schenectady, first went on the air in 1921, I
> believe.
> 
> None of the stations that have survived operates on
> the 
> same frequency as it did in 1922. The "broadcast
> band" 
> in those days consisted initially of just 
> one "wavelength," 360 meters, which works out to
> about 
> 833 kHz, and crystal oscillators--if they existed at
> all-
> -were so unstable that the stations frequencies
> drifted 
> around by many kilocycles/sec. (The unit of
> frequency 
> wasn't renamed the Hertz until the 1960s.)
> --
> dan.strassberg@att.net
> 617-558-4205
> eFax 707-215-6367
> 
> > I am curious to know if anyone knows of a WLAN? 
> It
> > was a station put on the air in Houlton Maine back
> in
> > September 1922.  According to the book
> "Broadcasting
> > in Maine: The early Years" it was only on the air
> for
> > a few years at best.  The source was a book put
> out in
> > 1990 by the Maine Assoc of Broadcasting. Thanx!


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Cooper Fox
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