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Originally Posted by cbenham
My dad lived in Cincinnati in the 1930s and told me stories about hearing WLW on the bedsprings, in the silverware drawer, on the kitchen stove and the
basement furnace. Stores with fluorescent tubes could not turn off the lights!
He also said that the tower lighting transformers kept burning up at WLW and were finally replaced with a generator mounted on the tower turned by a motor mounted on a stand 15 feet away connected by a paraffin impregnated wooden shaft.
Cliff
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IIRC, WLW was 500 kW for a while back in the late 1930's/early 1940's.
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