{"id":17799,"date":"2016-03-16T07:47:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T11:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=17799"},"modified":"2016-03-16T07:52:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T11:52:13","slug":"radio-world-schenectady-shortwave-transmitters-1941","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/radio-world-schenectady-shortwave-transmitters-1941\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio World: Schenectady Shortwave Transmitters, 1941"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"philco38-4_dial_1\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Robinson, for sharing a link to the following article in Radio World<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The General Electric Co. was truly among America\u2019s premier broadcasting companies.<\/em><\/p>\n

In addition to developing much of early broadcast technology and building a trio of high-power AM stations in the early 1920s \u2014 WGY Schenectady, N.Y.; KOA Denver; and KGO Oakland, Calif. \u2014 GE was also the country\u2019s pioneer shortwave broadcaster.<\/em><\/p>\n

GE\u2019s initial shortwave station, 2XI, first broadcast in 1923, and in 1924 it was used to relay WGY\u2019s programs for to KOA and KGO for rebroadcast in the western U.S.<\/em><\/p>\n

By 1925, there were two experimentally licensed shortwave stations in Schenectady: W2XAD and W2XAF. A third GE station in San Francisco, W6XBE, was added in 1939.<\/em><\/p>\n

That was the year that the Federal Communications Commission allowed the country\u2019s experimental shortwave stations to relicense as commercial operations, and these three GE stations received the call signs WGEA, WGEO and KGEI, respectively.<\/em><\/p>\n

Continue reading the full article at Radio World<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, for sharing a link to the following article in Radio World: The General Electric Co. was truly among America\u2019s premier broadcasting companies. In addition to developing much of early broadcast technology and building a trio of high-power AM stations in the early 1920s \u2014 WGY Schenectady, N.Y.; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,56,3,288],"tags":[2635,4847,4848,634,677,676],"class_list":["post-17799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-radio-history","tag-dan-robinson","tag-ge","tag-general-electric","tag-radio-world","tag-world-war-ii","tag-wwii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4D5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51807,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/radio-waves-russia-shuts-down-dw-history-of-wgy-w2an-1bcg-on-the-air-and-summits-on-the-air\/","url_meta":{"origin":17799,"position":0},"title":"Radio Waves: Russia Shuts Down DW, History of WGY, W2AN\/1BCG On The Air, and Summits On The Air","author":"Thomas","date":"February 7, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Radio Waves:\u00a0 Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio Because I keep my ear to the waves, as well as receive many tips from others who do the same, I find myself privy to radio-related stories that might interest\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0readers.\u00a0 To that end:\u00a0Welcome to the\u00a0SWLing Post\u2019s Radio Waves, a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "AM"","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/MTR-3B.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/MTR-3B.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/MTR-3B.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/MTR-3B.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/MTR-3B.jpeg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":17486,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/am-radio-proposal-has-class-a-broadcasters-upset\/","url_meta":{"origin":17799,"position":1},"title":"AM radio proposal has Class A broadcasters upset","author":"Thomas","date":"February 26, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Times Union) When the sun goes down, AM radio signals travel much farther. 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