Photographs of the Blaw-Knox Diamond-Shaped Tower of WLW-AM, and Powell Crosley at the controls for the 500 kilowatt Transmitter of WLW-AM.
The control console for the 500 kilowatt Transmitter of WLW-AM was fabricated out of wood.
In the video taken by Randall “Randy” Hall, whose Ham call sign is K7AGE; as part of a group Tour of the WLW-AM Transmitter Site in the Cincinnati suburb of Mason, Ohio; and of the Crosley/Voice of America Shortwave Transmitter Site in Bethany/West Chester, Ohio (by then, decommissioned; and the Transmitter building having since been converted into the Voice of America Museum), seen is that 500 kilowatt AM/Mediumwave Transmitter of WLW-AM, in dilapidated condition due to it being dormant ever since the end of WWII, when the FCC, beginning in the late 1930’s, had mandated that 50 kilowatts is the maximum amount of power an AM Station is allowed to transmit its signal. The FCC had again allowed WLW-AM to transmit its signal at 500 kilowatts during WWII; where WLW-AM operating at 500 Kw, in addition to the Shortwave transmissions from the West Chester Transmitter site being received in war-torn Europe; led to Adolf Hitler to refer to the Crosley Broadcasting Corporation, and the Office of War Information (now the Voice of America) as the “Cincinnati liars”.
Matthew Parij 
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