Word: kdka
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tuning in on Station WEAF, WJZ, WEEI, WJAR, WTAG, WCSH, WTIC, WGY, WGR, WBZ, WLIT, WFI, WRC, KDKA, WCAE, WTAM, WWJ, WSAI, WLIB, WGN, KYW, KSD, WOC, WCCO, WDAF, WHAS, WSM, WSB, WMC, KOA, KPO, KGO, KFI, KGW, KOMO, KFOA or KHQ, radiophiles may hear the voice of the President. He will talk about President Washington from the rostrum of the House of Representatives, some Senators and Congressmen being seated before...
...Y.M.C.A. planned to receive 4,500 sailors on shore every day, provided 1,500 beds and continuous meals. The newspapers published "Home News for the Fleet"?items wirelessed from KDKA (Pittsburgh) on a 63-meter wavelength, by arrangement with The Melbourne Herald, secured through the U.S. representative of La Nacion (Buenos Aires). Every evening at 6 p. m. the items are flashed from Pittsburgh and are received in Melbourne at 8 a. m. almost instantaneously, but by calendar a day later...
...definition consumptive of less power and hence of less capital, would soon render "the million-dollar high-power radio-broadcasting stations obsolete." Sailing for Europe, Manufacturer Dubilier took with him low-power radio equipment which he estimated as requiring 1/4,000 the power of such long-wave stations as KDKA (Pittsburgh), WJZ (New York), KPO (San Francisco), CFCA (Toronto...
That music-what was it? In the dank fastnesses of the jungle along the banks of the Rio Parima, towards whose source the white men were hacking their way,, stirred unearthly strains. "Debbils," groaned the natives. "Station KDKA, Pittsburgh," chortled the expedition's justly proud radio expert, John Swanson. A deep, pontifical voice broke the hot silence. "That," explained the man with the ear phones, "is Judge Elbert H. Gary, of the U. S. Steel Corporation...
Americans believed they heard London, Newcastle, Aberdeen, Paris, Madrid, Turin, Cardiff, Birmingham, Leeds, Rome. Abroad the greatest success seemed to be in picking up station KDKA of Pittsburgh. WJZ (Manhattan), WCAP (Washington, D. C.) and WGY (Schenectady) were among the other U, S. broadcasters...