i don't know where this topic that i originally posted disappeared but here it is again and hopefully it will stay this time.
Cute video it disappeared actually right after I watched it which was kind of funny.
How about that, a 5 watt carrier current station reaching 14 homes.
And they appeared to be perfectly happy with their coverage area.
They were providing a service to their local area with music, news, emergency messagages, etc.
Wouldn't it be great to locate those guys and see what they're doing today...
That's so cool, it makes me wish I had my station that formalized and together as a teen.
My gang and me could never be so serious, it was nonstop laughs and giggles about everything constantly when we were hanging out. We did try to read the news and do fake commercials, but things would devolve from there.
I supposed it didn't matter too much on AM, reaching a couple of houses if lucky. Wish I'd known about carrier current, I never heard of it then, but adults might have, and we needed the input from a radio person to find out those things, or to find it in a junior science book.
The news crew must have been recording off of a monitor radio tuned to the station, the announcements were scratchy like old carbon mikes that were in use at the time!
This old post certainly warrants a reprise. I never saw it before.
"In the mid 1950's two youngsters built and programmed their own radio station, WSJC. The boys were documented in a film by the United States Information Agency (USIA), which claimed the youngsters' station was "The World's Smallest Radio Station".
This feature was televised in Europe over Voice of America TV as part of the propaganda battle in The Cold War.
<span;>It is narrated by Bob McHone, renown network and major market radio and TV announcer, narrator, and spokesman."