When I was a teenager, I always listened to the Voice of America broadcasting in Portuguese here in Brazil, I thought it was great and privileged and whenever I listen to the vignette of the radio signal I get a gratifying DEJAVU!
I've visited Delano several times and once had a wonderful inside tour, I was so impressed in the antenna switching system and the Sterba Curtains. I wished our Nation would continue supporting VOA, or lease them to State Emergency Management Agencies for HF ALE systems.
George and Tommy, another great presentation. I listened to VOA in my youth when wanting to learn about radio, that plus the other SW stations wetted the interest in getting to Amateur Radio. Thanks for the informative and interesting presentation.
Back in my BBC days we had a Radio-Telephone system on 141MHz and the co-linear antennas were above the UHF Cylinder right at the top of the masts/towers. One weekend when I was at the Wenvoe TV transmitter (west of Cardiff) I connected my IC2E to the R//T Antenna and spoke to my friend in SE London 160 miles away! No lift - flat conditions! :-)
Wonderful tour and great memory's to me . With those "Special English"broadcast i'l actually i'l lern understand and speak english way back in the '50s at the age of 8 long before english was educated on basic schools here in Holland . Stil can see that old shortwave receiver in my bedroom when i was a kid , hunting for those VOA broadcast's
George and Tommy, you guys have knocked it out of the park with this one. A magnificent job. I grew up in the Cincinnati area and lived the last 40 some years in Dayton, before locating in Florida, driving by VOA a million times. The interview and camera work could not be beat anywhere! Ray W8VLG
I remember listing to the VOA broadcasting the first manned space shuttle flight in 1981. The time difference made for a long night. From memory, I turned my FRG 7 off about 4am Sydney time.
Thanks George for that wonderful video tour. It is the next best thing to being there, hopefully some day I can visit there in person, but for now, this is so great to see. 73..wd0akx
Piscataway, NJ had a VOA station near the Bound Brook line with a massive curtain antenna. The Piscataway Amateur Radio Club often ran a special event station annually to commemorate VOA station WBOU.
Is the VOA still broadcasting on SW? Sorry I gather this is now a museum. It’s great that they left it in place and didn’t tear it down. Maybe someday it might be used again? There isn’t a lot on SW anymore but with the recent crisis of Corona virus 3/2020 perhaps this may become active again.
Great information. We learn about major events during WWII, but not a lot about the mind games Germany played on its own people and people a far. Great work!
Voice of america has taken interview of my grand father, Mr. Ali Mohd Banka in around 1954 regarding papier machie pantings, he was very famous artist of his own time in kashmir valley also with sir edwen Lutanes who use to design number of articles for viceroys house during British raj in India present day rashpati bawan,
Wonderful tour, George and Tommy! Fascinating to see the insides of this great transmitter site after all those years of listening to VOA broadcasts in the 70's and 80's. Dave Schneider did a brilliant job of explaining the history and technicals of the operations. Thank you both for the time and effort you have taken in preparing this program. I have many SWL friends who will want to see this, so I'll be letting them know to check it out! Rob VK3BVW
I miss listening to VOA. What would it take to get this station back on line ? It seems that there is very little, if any, digital controls, so the station is virtually impervious to EMP. You never know...
So RF is more dangerous than 60 Hz power line because birds can land on 60 Hz high tension wire without being killed as long as only one wire. But RF can kill them even just one wire (2:09).
The world was lucky that at the time the National Socialism and the Soviet Socialism existed, the most economically and technologically advanced country of the world happened to be democratic and had the resources to make these broadcasts. I used to listen to VOA in the late 1980s under socialism.
i imagine the RF burns that those sticks would cause, I know if you grab on to my antenna outside and im transmitting at full 150 watts, it'd burn ur skin quite bad. now that now, would blow you to pieces it's so powerful, I'm a ham and I have studied RF safety as part of my license class.
Damn, if it creates that much waste heat, there has to be a whole lot of RF energy being pushed out at the transmitter site. Be some serious dxing if that were legal on vhf or even hf lol
When I was a teenager, I always listened to the Voice of America broadcasting in Portuguese here in Brazil, I thought it was great and privileged and whenever I listen to the vignette of the radio signal I get a gratifying DEJAVU!
God bless VOA. Thank you 🙏 .
Remember seeing the antenna come down from the window of History class in Mason , ironic.
Enjoyed watching.
Brilliant video and extremely interesting. 73's
greetings from México,i listen general programs,tanks.
I've visited Delano several times and once had a wonderful inside tour, I was so impressed in the antenna switching system and the Sterba Curtains. I wished our Nation would continue supporting VOA, or lease them to State Emergency Management Agencies for HF ALE systems.
I always love to hear VOA radio programs Dixon Fernando Colombo Sri Lanka
George and Tommy, another great presentation. I listened to VOA in my youth when wanting to learn about radio, that plus the other SW stations wetted the interest in getting to Amateur Radio. Thanks for the informative and interesting presentation.
Back in my BBC days we had a Radio-Telephone system on 141MHz and the co-linear antennas were above the UHF Cylinder right at the top of the masts/towers. One weekend when I was at the Wenvoe TV transmitter (west of Cardiff) I connected my IC2E to the R//T Antenna and spoke to my friend in SE London 160 miles away! No lift - flat conditions! :-)
Wonderful tour and great memory's to me . With those "Special English"broadcast i'l
actually i'l lern understand and speak english way back in the '50s at the age of 8
long before english was educated on basic schools here in Holland .
Stil can see that old shortwave receiver in my bedroom when i was a kid , hunting for those VOA broadcast's
That place is amazing! I drove my car under the switches a few years ago and wondered what it would be like switching the antennas in 3ft of snow!
George and Tommy, you guys have knocked it out of the park with this one. A magnificent job. I grew up in the Cincinnati area and lived the last 40 some years in Dayton, before locating in Florida, driving by VOA a million times. The interview and camera work could not be beat anywhere!
Ray
W8VLG
Great info, gold short wave era!
Saludos desde México, escucho los programas en general, gracias.
Remember “Yankee Doodle”? Greenville, Bethany and Bound Brook. Great audio into my Hallicrafter, Elizabeth NJ
I remember listing to the VOA broadcasting the first manned space shuttle flight in 1981. The time difference made for a long night. From memory, I turned my FRG 7 off about 4am Sydney time.
I loved listening to the VOA back in the day. Nice tour.
Loved VOA always wanted to work for them.
greetings from México.
Brilliant! Thank you so much for this one.
Very cool! Thank you guys!
Thanks George for that wonderful video tour. It is the next best thing to being there, hopefully some day I can visit there in person, but for now, this is so great to see. 73..wd0akx
Exceptional program.thanks a lot
Piscataway, NJ had a VOA station near the Bound Brook line with a massive curtain antenna. The Piscataway Amateur Radio Club often ran a special event station annually to commemorate VOA station WBOU.
George, outstanding. Nicely produced.
Many thanks George, Great, informative video. Really enjoy your presentations.
Mike
AF7CG
Wow What history this video is Thanks , 73 de K6UAE/7
Is the VOA still broadcasting on SW? Sorry I gather this is now a museum. It’s great that they left it in place and didn’t tear it down. Maybe someday it might be used again? There isn’t a lot on SW anymore but with the recent crisis of Corona virus 3/2020 perhaps this may become active again.
Cracking show, and kudos to the star and main talent of the show... Cameraperson Tommy :D
I often drove by the Beathany station when going between Mason Ohio and Oxford Ohio. It really dominate the view.
I too would listen to VOA. George you've created a wonderful video. Thanks! Paul W0DPD
Thank you so much for the nice video!
In 1977 I bought a house in Florida from Mr. Joe Slater who was retired from VOA station in Sri Lanka.
Excellent Presentation, thank you!
Great information. We learn about major events during WWII, but not a lot about the mind games Germany played on its own people and people a far. Great work!
Voice of america has taken interview of my grand father, Mr. Ali Mohd Banka in around 1954 regarding papier machie pantings, he was very famous artist of his own time in kashmir valley also with sir edwen Lutanes who use to design number of articles for viceroys house during British raj in India present day rashpati bawan,
I wanna see the blue flame pics!
George,
EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT piece on V O A. I might add it could be your best to date, keep up the good work.
n0yg Robert
Interesting !
More like a huge antenna switch box for switching between the 22 antennas used.
saludos desde México
awesome... i worked on the 750kw!!!
The West Chester Radio Club has their meetings in the control room.
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I use to listen to shortwave but it is not the same any more. Collins was based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa if I remember correctly.
The bridge and building column rebar are the real antenna of greatest power if connect to death switch then heaven is sure
Very interesting. Thanks.
Chris
VK4FR
Wonderful tour, George and Tommy! Fascinating to see the insides of this great transmitter site after all those years of listening to VOA broadcasts in the 70's and 80's. Dave Schneider did a brilliant job of explaining the history and technicals of the operations. Thank you both for the time and effort you have taken in preparing this program. I have many SWL friends who will want to see this, so I'll be letting them know to check it out!
Rob VK3BVW
Wasn’t this smaller than WLW at its peak in the 30’s?
I miss listening to VOA. What would it take to get this station back on line ? It seems that there is very little, if any, digital controls, so the station is virtually impervious to EMP. You never know...
They only broadcast out of the US, they say it's unconstitutional to have it in the US.
So RF is more dangerous than 60 Hz power line because birds can land on 60 Hz high tension wire without being killed as long as only one wire. But RF can kill them even just one wire (2:09).
The world was lucky that at the time the National Socialism and the Soviet Socialism existed, the most economically and technologically advanced country of the world happened to be democratic and had the resources to make these broadcasts. I used to listen to VOA in the late 1980s under socialism.
When Fort Ord shut down a local radio station took over their station.
they should install a few ham antennas there for events
There are.
i imagine the RF burns that those sticks would cause, I know if you grab on to my antenna outside and im transmitting at full 150 watts, it'd burn ur skin quite bad. now that now, would blow you to pieces it's so powerful, I'm a ham and I have studied RF safety as part of my license class.
i would love to work there plant a & b
Tell the truth and let the world decide... arent this amazing?
I listen sw radio.voice of América.
Great video George.
VK5FCJM
Damn, if it creates that much waste heat, there has to be a whole lot of RF energy being pushed out at the transmitter site. Be some serious dxing if that were legal on vhf or even hf lol
If shortwave at that power is literally the radio telescope see all the way to the burning sun
See guy's NO COAX..
I have qsl card of voa sw radio.
wow, one transmitter putting out 1 million BTU, of waste heat? wow! look ma, I'm up about 2000 feet! and you get fried LOL.
One million dollar VOA program mahayalage Dixon Fernando Colombo nawala sri lanka
greetings from México