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Saturday,
May 21, 2016:
Mark and Paula visited VOA, the
Voice of America International broadcasting
station in Bethany, Ohio.
it is silent now after 70 years of service of telling the
world about America and freedom for people.
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The station went into service
during World War II telling the world, and especially citizens
of Germany, uncensored news.
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Mark remembers listening to
VOA as a kid in Minnesota. He had the chance to put his
hands on this 250,000 watt shortwave transmitter this day.
It is one of five manufactured by Collins Radio in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa. Only this one remains in the museum.
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There was a lecture describing how the Voice of America,
though highly directional antennas, put two million watts of equivalent
transmitter power
on the air directed at Europe and Germany. It got the message though to
millions of people during and after the war.
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The control room for the five transmitters is impressive 1940s
technology.
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So many transmitters, so little time. Mark
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