RE: radio in '22

["Paul Hopfgarten" <hopfgapr@sprynet.com>]

KWY-1060 in Philadelphia (& KYW-TV Ch 3)

-Paul Hopfgarten
-Derry NH

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Cooper
> Fox
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 5:14 PM
> To: dan.strassberg@att.net
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: radio in '22
> 
> 
> 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!
> 
> 
> =====
> Cooper Fox
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