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| Date: | 03 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Window display featuring RCA Victor radios and station WIBA advertising the new FM broadcasting service. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A radio-controlled Farmall F-30 tractor on display at the Indiana State Fair. |
| Date: | 05 26 1948 |
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| Description: | WIBA-FM, 45,000 watts, tower was built at Blue Mounds Park, and radiated power starting about June 10, 1948. WIBA was established in 1925 by The Capital... |
| Date: | 07 19 1948 |
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| Description: | The higher antenna of the WIBA tower and transmitting station increased the power of the station for the newly operational FM transmission at the Blue Moun... |
| Date: | 07 19 1948 |
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| Description: | Norman Hahn, chief engineer for WIBA and WIBA-FM, is shown at one section of the 10,000 watt transmitter. |
| Date: | 08 18 1948 |
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| Description: | Unidentified young man (Landsman?) seated at a table with a WIBA microphone. |
| Date: | 08 19 1948 |
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| Description: | Ross Hansch, 1608 Hoyt Street, Ham Radio Operator (W9RBI), Wisconsin's first member of the DX Century Club. The club is limited to amateur radio operators ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | In preparation for military service, young men at the University of Wisconsin study radio operations. |
| Date: | 10 10 1941 |
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| Description: | War reporter John Charles Daly gives his radio report by the light of a kerosene lantern. |
| Date: | 02 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Unidentified minister at pulpit equipped with WIBU microphone. One of four images of different ministers. |
| Date: | 09 26 1935 |
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| Description: | Plowing champion Carl Shoger with his trophies. Original caption reads: "Carl Shoger and his six cups won at Wheatland Plowing Contest." |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Three men laying wire in a forested area for W.H.A.S Radio. One of the men is operating an International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor). |
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| Description: | Man wearing microphone and headphones seated before a radar screen. |
| Date: | 03 09 1945 |
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| Description: | PFC Harold C. Schreckengost, commanding officer's runner, using a walkie-talkie among the rubble of buildings, directs movements of Company E, 2nd Battalio... |
| Date: | 09 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Three men standing at the microphone during a WIBA Radio broadcast from the Madison Home Show. |
| Date: | 09 10 1951 |
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| Description: | Frances Hurst (left) and Marcella Gill (right) listen to voice recordings at the WIBA radio broadcasting studio. Hurst was chairman of the WHA radio progra... |
| Date: | 03 21 1952 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State High School basketball tournament at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House. Roger Forster, announcer from radio station WIBA, int... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A view of uniformed men gathering around an Army field wireless station at Camp Bowie, built in 1917. |
| Date: | 04 17 1952 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Madison taken from near the site of the WIBA radio tower, looking east toward the isthmus. Other images in this set look to the northwest, s... |
| Date: | 06 21 1952 |
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| Description: | Seven members of the Four Lakes Amateur Radio Club operating a transmitter and receiving station at the club's annual field day. Standing, left to right: ... |
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