{"id":6498,"date":"2013-07-21T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/07\/21\/tour-of-wlw-500000-watt-transmitter-video\/"},"modified":"2013-07-21T12:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T02:36:00","slug":"tour-of-wlw-500000-watt-transmitter-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/07\/21\/tour-of-wlw-500000-watt-transmitter-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour of WLW 500,000 Watt Transmitter (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CbHjcwIoTiY\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <strong>Well, you know that you are really in the high power big leagues when your transmitter requires a cooling pond, and you have to put on welding goggles before you examine your tubes! I especially liked the bit about how they built the transmitter BUILDING from the packing materials used to ship the transmitter (my operating desk is made from a box used to ship my HT-37!). <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>This is all really amazing. They built this thing less than ten years after the initial launch of commercial broadcast radio in the U.S. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>Thanks a lot to Randy for doing this video and to the guys who gave the really excellent tour. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>My apologies to the QRP purists who I know will have been deeply disturbed by this presentation.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, you know that you are really in the high power big leagues when your transmitter requires a cooling pond, and you have to put on welding goggles before you examine your tubes! I especially liked the bit about how they built the transmitter BUILDING from the packing materials used to ship the transmitter (my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/07\/21\/tour-of-wlw-500000-watt-transmitter-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tour of WLW 500,000 Watt Transmitter (video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,31,101,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-radio","category-radio-history","category-tubes","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}