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	Voice of America
		The purpose of the Voice of America, of which the Bethany Relay Station was a part, was to transmit news and information across America and around the world.
		The "Bethany Relay Station," as it was called, was operated by the Crosley Broadcasting Corporation under a government contract until 1963.
		The Voice of America sent its last transmissions in November, 1994.
	freepages.history.rootsweb.com /~butlercounty/voa.html

	DX Shortwave radio photos, station id calls, QSL pennants
		Voice of America, Rhodes, Greece: SW and MW relay station, the aerial masts.
		Many of the stations are not rare and the audio quality is what DX'ers of those days used to experience with their simple receivers, but the recordings could be of nostalgic interest today and worth preserving for future research.
		Station opened in 1948 and closed in June 1982 (transferred to Jokela).
	www.filatelia.fi /dx

	Adrian Peterson's Diary--September 1996
		A station that is no longer on the air is the Voice of America relay station in Mason, Ohio.
		The Radio Australia relay station at Carnarvon in Western Australia, originally intended as a temporary facility, was on the air for over 21 years.
		Although the structures at Radio Australia's relay base near Darwin had been designed and constructed to withstand the effects of a cyclone, part of tne antenna system was blown down, and salt water damaged the transmitters.
	www.anarc.org /naswa/issues/0996/apd0996.html

	New Page 4
		When the radio ship, “Apache” was off the coast of the Philippines, the relay of this “Voice of America” radio program was transferred from VLC in Australia to the “Apache” under the American callsign, WVLC.
		Reception reports addressed to many of the stations he has heard are beginning to produce QSL cards and letters, including responses from some of the stations that were on the air with emergency equipment during the power outages in the north east.
		* USA : Dr Floyd Layer reports that the new season for mediumwave DXing in the Northern Hemisphere has begun well and that he has heard many stations at distant locations throughout North America.
	english.awr.org /wavescan/scripts/ws467.htm

	Vienna Wireless Society - Archived Meeting Notes
		The station was known as Bethany Relay Station.
		In the U.S., the west coast relay station is at Delano, CA and the east coast station at Greenville, SC.
		The station power was 300kW, enough for local relatives to hear the broadcasts in their dental fillings and wire fences.
	www.viennawireless.org /notes.php?id=44

	Articles - Voice of America
		Under United States law, the Voice of America is forbidden to broadcast directly to American citizens.
		Bethany Relay Station, which operated from 1944 to 1994.
		The Voice of America is located at 330 Independence Avenue SW,
	www.kamero.net /articles/Radio_Marti

	Crosley Broadcasting Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		, was an early operator of radio stations in the
		Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, Crosley's flagship station was WLW (AM).
		Crosley Broadcasting Corporation, founded by radio manufacturing pioneer
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crosley_Broadcasting_Corporation

	WLW's Big-Arse Transmitter
		Bethany, which was nearing the end of another expensive upgrade, was suddenly shut down, amid a huge controversy.
		Its first task was as a BBC relay that could also be used as a jammer, by synchronizing the frequency with German MW stations and overpowering their signals.
		In 1928, WLW was the first U.S. station to make it to 50 kW, courtesy of an enormous, water-cooled, Western Electric transmitter, the kind with those huge, Frankenstein-ish meters on top and plenty of ominous little windows where one could look in and see how hot the tubes were getting.
	www.ominous-valve.com /wlw.html

	KimAndrewElliott.com
		But this is the man who was running The Voice of America back in 1984 when a partisan named Charlie Wick was politicizing the United States Information Agency of which Voice of America was a part.
		Station will "adapt or convert several of the radio's medium and short wave transmitters to terrestrial digital technology which, once finished, would allow Vatican Radio to broadcast its programs with a lower emission power and with a better broadcast quality." Transmitters are located at Santa Maria di Galeria, Italy.
		Those stations transmitting numbers in groups of five, heard for decades by shortwave listeners, may be spy related.
	kimandrewelliott.com

	VOA.htm
		UNION TOWNSHIP- Following the toppling of the last large radio tower last weekend, the antenna field at the former Voice of America Bethany Relay Station may be cleared and ready for its next use by mid-March.
		On my most recent drive past this former Voice of America site, February 22, 1998, I discovered all three of the large towers that comprised the curtain array down.
		The only remnant left on the property will be a small switching station that may be used as part of a museum or monument.
	www.netwalk.com /~fsv/VOA.htm

	Let's Automate!
		Other antennas at Bethany were used to broadcast directly to Central and South America and to relay Radio Marti to these countries, as they are directly south of the Bethany location.
		The Bethany station was dismantled in September 1995 as a result of budget cuts and a diminishing need for HF relays.
		The Bethany station was also used for Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) until the service discontinued the use of the HF band.
	beradio.com /mag/radio_lets_automate

	voa11299
		Two 300-foot transmission towers - built in 1953- are being torn down Tuesday at the Voice of America Bethany Relay Station in Butler County's Union Township.
		The Voice of America was based in Washington, D.C., with broadcasts beamed to the rest of the world through sites like the relay station in Butler County.
		These organizations were part of a community coalition that developed ideas for using the land after officials learned in 1994 that federal budget cuts would close Voice of America.
	www.cincypost.com /news/1997/voa112997.html

	Bethany's Voice of America lives
		On June 6, the amateur radio station at Voice of America, WC8VOA, will operate as a special-event station to commemorate the Normandy landing, the largest land assault in history.
		They told me it was the Voice of America, but we did not know what role the building played in the war.
		For a half century, the Voice of America sent freedom's message across the world.
	www.cincinnati.com /local/wchester/G90html_04202004__GNWCroadtrip.ART_Other.html

	voa080300
		The 330-acre Voice of America Park is on the grounds where towering VOA antennas beamed radio news and entertainment around the world during World War II and the Cold War.
		Final plans were unveiled today for a multi-million dollar public park designed to commemorate the old Voice of America broadcasting center in West Chester Township, Butler County.
		Final plans for Voice of America Park will be displayed and discussed at a meeting tonight.
	www.cincypost.com /news/2000/voa080300.html

	Google Search: voice_of_america
		Voice of America Station in Saipan By Ivan Saddler Copyright 10/2001 SMECC.
		The '''Voice of America''' (VOA) is the official broadcasting
		Station KSAI was used to broadcast surrender terms to Japan at the end of the...
	voice_of_america.networklive.org

	Radionewsweb.com
		Captain America had been on air for over two and a half years and we decided it was time for a change," a spokeswoman said, adding that the change was a "tweak" rather than part of a revamping of the station schedule.
		This will change the station from a low-power unprotected service to a protected class A1 FM station and Larche Communications Inc., which was awarded CFWC's existing frequency for a new country music format FM, is expected to bear the costs of the changes.
		2004-05-24: The problems "Oldies" stations face in deciding what are "Oldies" are for their target audience and the manner in which they have gradually shifted content are featured in the Washington Post in an article by Marc Fisher who notes that audience surveys show little interest in records from the 50s or early 60s.
	www.radionewsweb.com /2004-05.html

	EPA: Federal Register: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement; Disposal of Voice of America Bethany Relay Station, Union Township, OH
		Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement; Disposal of Voice of America Bethany Relay Station, Union Township, OH
		ACTION: Proposed disposal of the property known as the Voice of America Relay Station located in Union Township, Butler County, Ohio.
		The station property consists of approximately 625 acres located within Union Township (Butler County), Ohio.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/1996/July/Day-10/pr-16734.html

	Radio Currents Online - Nov 24 - Dec 6, 2003
		The Gray’s transition to the Voice of America is expected to take some time as arrangements are made to provide secure areas for storage of the collection.
		Infinity operates 185 radio stations, the majority of which are in the nation’s top 50 markets and reach more than 76 million listeners a week.
		West Chester Township, OH - Dec 1, 2003 - The Gray History of Wireless Museum is a repository of thousands of artifacts from the beginning of radio, including a shard of glass from a condenser used by the Guglielmo Marconi in his early experiments.
	beradio.com /currents/radio_currents_46

	The Listener's Guide - Bob Ellis - The World Of Bobbin
		John Vodenik at the VOA Bethany Relay Station for the laughs.
		World politics and international border changes means we hear of a station name change every two weeks, so this or any other frequency guide is only correct at the time of going to press.
		The station name is the one the station was using at the time the observation was made on that particular frequency.
	www.aoruk.com /guide/old.asp

	ARRLWeb: The ARRL Letter Online, Volume 16, Number 49
		Ham visitors to Ohio--perhaps on their way to the Dayton Hamvention--sometimes found it hard to keep their eyes on the highway when passing the Voice of America's Bethany Relay Station.
		At one time among the most powerful shortwave stations in the world, the Bethany Relay Station was shut down a couple of years ago.
		Ham radio operators helped relay damage assessments and continue to keep open lines of communication between Guam and the Pacific islands of Saipan, Tinian, and Rota in the Northern Marianas in the wake of Typhoon Paka.
	www.arrl.org /arrlletter/97/971219

	Articles - Voice of America Bethany Relay Station
		Until November 1963, the Crosley Broadcasting Corporation operated the facility for the government when the Voice of America assumed direct control.
		Part in the southwest corner was sold to developers who have erected a shopping center called the Voice of America Center.
		Liberty Township community of Bethany, which was about two miles north of the facility.
	www.xclimbing.net /articles/Voice_of_America_Bethany_Relay_Station

	UWO9204.TXT
		Currently we have members in over 30 countries around the world, although most of our members are located in North America.
		PIAB Singapore Relay If you are into exotic modes or German language news you might be interested in the schedule I monitored here in Georgia on 12 December at 1800UTC for PIAB Singapore Relay.
		According to Symington and Henault (Utility QSL Address Guide), the way to tell whether the station you have heard is an actual Navy ship/shore station or a civilian affiliate station is to look at the letter after the zero.
	weber.ucg.ie /mirrors/ftp.funet.fi/pub/dx/text/utility/UWO9204.TXT

	Soka Gakkai--NEWS: Headlines - June 29 to July 5, 2003
		The 308-acre Voice of America Park is located on the former site of the Voice of America Bethany Relay Station, created in 1945 to transmit international radio broadcasts to counteract Hitler's Nazi propaganda in Europe.
		Daisaku Ikeda Tree Grove Opens in Voice of America Park in West Chester, Ohio, USA
		On June 29, West Chester Township, Ohio, USA, dedicated Daisaku Ikeda Tree Grove, which opened in Voice of America Park.
	sokagakkai.info /html1/news1/headlines1/03cal1/03jun29-jul05_1.html

	Research
		Voice of America - On August 1, 1967, the U.S. Post Office issued a five-cent Voice of America stamp, and here are some of the covers that were available at the time.
		Stations of the Past: La Voz de Galapagos, Ecuador, 4810 kHz, December 8, 1985, and Radio Los Andes, Huamachuco, Peru, 5030 kHz., December 7, 1985; both submitted by ace Latin American DXer Henrik Klemetz of Sweden who was in Ecuador when he recorded them.
		Band Survey - Here is a band survey from the February 1957 NNRC Bulletin, listing all Caribbean, Central American and South American stations reported to be operating between 3 and 8 MHz.
	www.pair.com /otsw/research.html

	UTARC News - Jan. 1998
		The Voice of America transmitter site in Bethany, Ohio (on the way to Dayton from the Cincinnati airport) was decommissioned and torn down this year.
		Because this callsign is based on the old 5XU station that used to be on campus in 1921 we also used a check of 21.
		In an effort to drive the club’s station expansion to new heights UTARC is starting a fund drive to create a radio station on campus to rival that found anywhere else in the country.
	n5xu.ae.utexas.edu /news/jan1998

	A selection from a decade of visits to tower and studio sites in the Northeast and beyond
		Thus was born the Voice of America Bethany relay station, which remained in operation until the mid-nineties.
		On the air, the station was one of a handful of prominent programming sources not tied to the coasts and the big networks.
		The antennas were already gone from Bethany during my 1998 visit; since then, the land and transmitter building have been converted to a recreation center for area residents.
	www.fybush.com /site-020109.html

	ARRLWeb: VOA Site Restoration a Major Ham Radio Project
		For 52 years, until it was decommissioned in 1994, the major VOA relay station was located in Bethany (now West Chester Township).
		West Chester ARA hams take a break for a group photo during one of the 15 work sessions it took to remove two of the Voice of America transmitters and reposition the third for display.
		"The remaining transmitter will not function, but museum visitors will have an idea of what these looked like and how the transmitters operated when we first opened the Bethany station in 1944," said Stinger.
	www.arrl.org /news/stories/2003/02/05/1?nc=1

	dxld5019.txt
		By 1944, the first Voice of America station capable of reaching out to the world was in operation in West Chester (then Union Township).
		The Radio 4 relay on 774 was almost of equal strength to the 720 relay I already knew about, and the 873 relay of Radio Ulster was of almost equal strength to the 1341 frequency of Radio Ulster.
		It is about 10 minutes walk from Reading station, just south of the main town centre and on several bus routes.
	www.worldofradio.com /dxld5019.txt

	CBBS904.TXT
		Radio Netherlands reports the demise of the Voice of America relay station in Bethany, Ohio.
		The celebration of the birth of the man who founded the American Radio Relay League took place last September.
		That's right, during the time that the computerized disk jockey was on the air the station's ratings had jumped upward by an amazing 40 per cent.
	www.arnewsline.org /newsline_archives/CBBS904.TXT

	Jim Hawkins' Radio Adventures and Stories Page
		Having been employed at Bethany Relay Station for almost 10 years, I have a few stories I would like to tell.
		The two stations operating at 660 Khz and 770 Khz from the main and aux tower in Lodi caused the beat at 880 Khz and this created a problem for WCBS on the west side of Manhattan.
		This was why some stations sounded like a million dollars and others sounded like they had a pillow over the speaker.
	hawkins.pair.com /radmail.html

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