😀 This is a complete scratch built 1/48 scale structure. A radio station was required to accompany the broadcast tower recently acquired . Here is a pix of the actual prototype, a former radio station building for sale. Due to syndication, many privately owned stations have had to close their doors across the nation.
Here's the model'
Station General Manager, and announcer, Rachel Rogers, is waiting for a on air interview with world renowned, Major, Wilbur Briteing, RAF, retired, war correspondent and photographer. His entourage should be arriving any time now. As you can see, Rachel is a bit impatient...
Local press photographers and reporters show up for a photo shoot and questions to the famous Major'.
The Major being interviewed and photographed'..
Rachel waits patiently to take the major in the studio for her long awaited live interview on the air. She chats with the Major's chauffeur for some inside information while waiting...
Some additional footage, enjoy..😀
Rachel is a great station manager ... waiting at the door to usher in her special guest
Of course the British major is looks rather dashing in his uniform.
Actually the tower that broadcasted the first station used a doppler antenna in early 1900s I can't recall the call letters, but they most likely started with a X.... was located in Mexico. So was the original station. There was some problem with getting the OK from the powers to be over the music the station was going to play. So they opened in Mexico just over the boarder. This also enhanced the signal, and the station was heard throughout Texas, and much of the central west. In later years after regulations were lifted, It was one of the first 50,000 Watt stations in the US....
