I was directed to this by a DX friend. This is an online collection of QSLs from National Radio Club members (many if not most silent keys), including the great Ernie Cooper. I even found a QSL I signed for a DX test on WCSM-1350, Celina, Ohio in 1981. Enjoy.
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This is great stuff. Thanks for posting.
A $50 prize for the person who can identify the stations in 4 separate "radio" countries and 8 different AM stations that I found signed verifications from in that collection.
Great nostalgia trip: those amazing letterheads and logos.
I saw the one you posted on Facebook.
Some of those QSLs go back to the 40s. Great that these were preserved.
I spent far longer than I should've late last night perusing some of these. It was interesting to see a few old QSLs from stations I (much) later worked at. By then, those stations were shells of what they once were, with no more full-time news departments as described, no full-time engineer, only a contract engineer at one station who stopped in weekly and a contract guy at another who was on call in case of emergencies. At one of these stations, the AM talker was mostly satellite and automation fed by the early 1990s when I was there, but in reading the QSL from the 1950s, the description of the old GE transmitter was the same as we were still running nearly 40 years later (without a viable backup).
I've always been a bit of a history buff and thought I'd collected all the past letterheads from one place I'd worked at, but found a new one while searching here.
I found some wording in the WIOD QSL from the Brauner collection to be a bit laughable. It described the station, which sits on the 79th Street Causeway adjacent to what's now North Bay Village next to a TV station (and was recently discussed at length in another discussion thread as the studios were abandoned and relocated long ago and the transmitters and towers will be gone within the next several months) thusly: "THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BROADCASTING STATION IN THE US" "WIOD, "Wonderful Isle of Dreams," is located on an island in a fairyland setting in Biscayne Bay. The radio building, specially designed and incorporating one of the finest studios in existence, is located in the center of this island between two 250 foot Whittlesey towers from which the elaborate antenna system drops straight into the operating room...The equipment is of the very best for quality transmission and is all Western Electric, including the 1,000 watt transmitter." While the area may have looked very different back when the QSL was sent, it seems their description of it being in a "fairyland setting" and The most beautiful broadcasting station in the US may have been a bit dramatic, Lol.
I've always been a bit of a history buff and thought I'd collected all the past letterheads from one place I'd worked at, but found a new one while searching here.
I found some wording in the WIOD QSL from the Brauner collection to be a bit laughable. It described the station, which sits on the 79th Street Causeway adjacent to what's now North Bay Village next to a TV station (and was recently discussed at length in another discussion thread as the studios were abandoned and relocated long ago and the transmitters and towers will be gone within the next several months) thusly: "THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BROADCASTING STATION IN THE US" "WIOD, "Wonderful Isle of Dreams," is located on an island in a fairyland setting in Biscayne Bay. The radio building, specially designed and incorporating one of the finest studios in existence, is located in the center of this island between two 250 foot Whittlesey towers from which the elaborate antenna system drops straight into the operating room...The equipment is of the very best for quality transmission and is all Western Electric, including the 1,000 watt transmitter." While the area may have looked very different back when the QSL was sent, it seems their description of it being in a "fairyland setting" and The most beautiful broadcasting station in the US may have been a bit dramatic, Lol.
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KIT Yakima verified in Ohio in 1952
KIMA-1460 Yakima verified by J.W. Brauner in NY, in 1948. He also heard KIT and KYAK, then 1400, on a frequency check, now on 930. Also didn't know that KUTI used to be on 900! The KIT verif. is from 1930!
Wayne Heinen heard KREW-1210 Sunnyside in 1984...
Another KIMA verie in 1948 by Ernie Cooper of Brooklyn. Plus KUTI in 1954, KIT in 1942, and KULE Ephrata in 1951, along with KTYW Yakima in 1945 (not sure of the frequency).
And KXLE's xmitter is just several blocks from me, but they were heard in PA by Kermit Geary in 1954...
What fun!
KIMA-1460 Yakima verified by J.W. Brauner in NY, in 1948. He also heard KIT and KYAK, then 1400, on a frequency check, now on 930. Also didn't know that KUTI used to be on 900! The KIT verif. is from 1930!
Wayne Heinen heard KREW-1210 Sunnyside in 1984...
Another KIMA verie in 1948 by Ernie Cooper of Brooklyn. Plus KUTI in 1954, KIT in 1942, and KULE Ephrata in 1951, along with KTYW Yakima in 1945 (not sure of the frequency).
And KXLE's xmitter is just several blocks from me, but they were heard in PA by Kermit Geary in 1954...
What fun!
I found three or four of my veri letters from a couple of AM stations I used to engineer, plus I discovered that Bill Nittler's nephew was apparently a co-worker, who also provided Uncle Bill with a veri letter.
Thanks for posting this link, good stuff. I've found QSL's from as far back as the 30's. Very cool.
Looked at the Dave Thomas list on that link...saw some Iowa entries that date into the 1920s, including WJAM Cedar Rapids which would later become WMT.
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