Linda Brown
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This information and most of what was written here came directly from my families archives. Notice that it was posted here on 2007! When I think that I am being impatient I remind myself that I have a perfect right to be that way. Look how long those around me have been working on getting information on Dad out there. I especially liked this"
This is from the Alternative Energy Institute link above..........
"On a trip to New York with his mother, he contacted Dr. Lee DeForest, inventor of the radio-telephone and vacuum tube. Townsend was only 16 years old when he bought one of DeForest's vacuum tubes and brought it back home with him, but he was able to construct a broadcasting station with it, the first such transmitter in Ohio. Even though he used only 10 watts of energy to power the transmitter, he received a postcard that he had been heard in California. Every Saturday night at the local college, he broadcasted music by an amateur orchestra called the "Green Imps." Although Dennison University turned off the lights at 10 p.m. when the school's generator was shut down, Brown devised an alternative system that carried the broadcast until 11 p.m. At that time there were only two other broadcasting stations in the country, WJZ of New York and KDKA of Pittsburgh. My Dad.... running a pirate radio station! Now that sounds like him!!!!! Linda
This is from the Alternative Energy Institute link above..........
"On a trip to New York with his mother, he contacted Dr. Lee DeForest, inventor of the radio-telephone and vacuum tube. Townsend was only 16 years old when he bought one of DeForest's vacuum tubes and brought it back home with him, but he was able to construct a broadcasting station with it, the first such transmitter in Ohio. Even though he used only 10 watts of energy to power the transmitter, he received a postcard that he had been heard in California. Every Saturday night at the local college, he broadcasted music by an amateur orchestra called the "Green Imps." Although Dennison University turned off the lights at 10 p.m. when the school's generator was shut down, Brown devised an alternative system that carried the broadcast until 11 p.m. At that time there were only two other broadcasting stations in the country, WJZ of New York and KDKA of Pittsburgh. My Dad.... running a pirate radio station! Now that sounds like him!!!!! Linda