resources and research
About VOA, Powel Crosley, Jr., WLW Radio, Early Radio,
Ham Radio, and Wireless Innovations.
Directory
Cincinnati Museums and Historical Societies
As a public service the VOA Museum produces a directory for the Museums and Historical Societies of Greater Cincinnati.
Prior to visiting first check their website for hours of operation.
Download Museums and Historical Societies of Greater Cincinnati Directory
50 Years of Broadcasting (VOA) by Dave Snyder, 1.8 Mb, PDF
Bethany Station Brochure by Charlie Stinger, Cartoons by Ralph Paterson 64 Mb, PDF
How VOA Bethany Station Worked by Leland L. Hite, 5.8 MB, PDF
CROSLEY-OWl 200 KW VOICE OF AMERICA by Jim Rockwell, 22 MB, PDF
OWI 200-KW TRANSMITTERS AT BETHANY, OHIO by Jim Rockwell 6.2 MB, PDF
Lies, Spies and Secrets – Hidden History of Cincinnati Radio 1.6 MEG, PDF
Narrative of History for VOA Bethany 132 kB, PDF
More VOA Bethany History by Dave Snyder 12 KB, PDF
US Information Agency – VOA Bethany Relay Station 1998 8.3 Meg. PDF
Visiting VOA Museum – Attractions and Accommodations PDF
VOA Bethany Phantom Antenna (Dummy Load) 21 Meg, PDF
VOA Newspaper Dedication 09-23-1944 215 Meg, PDF
What’s Inside a Large Transmitter Tube 180 kB, PDF
America’s voice goes silent in Berlin as last US radio station closes – December 2020 180 k, PDF
USCGC Courier (WTR-410) and The Voice of America by Sarah Lanzaro 5 Meg, PDF
USCGC Crew Member David H, K6JDH, Members page from QRZ (with permission)
USCGC Courier in Panama 5 M, PDF
VOA Doubles Its Power – Greenville – NC 20 Meg, PDF
VOA Today – 2018 85k, PDF
VOA Languages – Alphabetical 120 kB, PDF
VOA Languages – Present to Past 140 kB, PDF
Britain’s Raiding Dreadnought of the Ether – The Story of a Secret Weapon Called “Aspidistra, by Michael A. Banks
“Churchilka” Beat Nazis, Radio Craft, August 1947, 3 Meg, PDF
Explaining the Mysteries of Numbers Stations 300 k, PDF
Fifty years of transmitting at BBC Wooferton, 3.7 Meg, PDF
Goebbels Iowan_ Frederick W. Kaltenbach and Nazi Shortwave Radio 1.5 Meg, PDF
Ham Radio Enables Hitler’s Shortwave Network PDF,
Ipswich Icons – When the Cold War was played out right on our doorsteps in Suffolk 180 kB, PDF
Radio Intelligence 8.5 MB, PDF An eye-witness report on the little know technical aspects of the RID (Radio Intelligence Division) of the FCC.
Shortwave Listening Frequencies 210 kB, PDF (Provided as background for the VOA)
Significant Dates – International Shortwave Propaganda Broadcast 300 kB, PDF
The Menace of Shortwave Propaganda, by Larry Wolters, Radio News, May 1938, 3 MB, PDF
The Radio as the Eight Great Power 40 kB, PDF
25 Surprising Facts About the (War of the Worlds) Broadcast 1.3 Meg, PDF
2017_History_of_AFN_Fact_Sheet 100 kB, PDF
AUDIO
National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting on Ham Talk Live Audio Only Sept.. 2016 44:59
(Jay Adrick K8CJY, Joe Gruber WD8AZQ and Gary West K8DEV)
USCGC Courier and the VOA on Ham Talk Live Audio Only (Lee Hite) Sept. 13, 2018 46:14
75th Anniversary on Ham Talk Live, Audio only, Melinda Zemper, Jocelyn Brault, Lee Hite, April 11, 2019, 50:42
VOA Bethany Final Crosley Transmitter Broadcast (November 1, 1989) 622 Meg, WAV
VIDEO
America’s Voice 17:18
Rusty McClure on Powel Crosley and WWII
Part 1 of 5 Tour of Voice of America Transmitter Plant, Greenville, NC, YouTube Nov. 2009 8:48
USCGC Courier VOA News Reel 1953 narrated by Gregory Peck during the filming of The Guns of Navarone YouTube 16:42
VOA Legacy – An Era Begin 9:56
Narrated by Dave Snyder (last Bethany Plant Manager), Charles Stinger (former Bethany Plant Manger) and Paul Wiseman ( Bethany Maintenance Supervisor)
Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting By Jim Hawkins August 28, 2012; 39:30
Voice of America Museum Special tour, July 31, 2013 by Amateur Logic.tv Featuring (Dave Snyder) 45:08
Voice of America by Mr. Audio Sound Images 2:09
Welcome to Bethany Relay Station by: Dave Snyder Part 1 & 2 16:08
A Look Back at the Radio Newspaper of the Air 350 kB, PDF
Boombox by Powel Crosley Jr. 500 kB, PDF
Cincinnati Goes To War, 5 meg, PDF
Cincinnati’s Powel Crosley by J. M. Rice 55.5 Meg, PDF
Powel Crosley, Jr. – Seagate Estate Video
Crosley Story by Don Bedwell, 25 Meg, PDF
Crosley Story by Jack Gray 14.5 Meg, PDF
Crosley Innovations List 30 kB, PDF
Crosley Long Term Employees 700 kB, PDF
Crosley 30 Years – Feb 1952 800 kB, PDF
Crosley’s Other Products Radio Age, November 1980, 8 meg, PDF
Crosley Interview – Sept 1960 by: the Post & Times-Star, Cincinnati, 1.7 Meg, PDF
Crosley Radio Apparatus 14 Meg, PDF, by:
Everybody’s Farm – Yes it Was, 5 Meg, PDF by: Lois Cockerham, Community Press, December 22, 1993
How the Icyball Refrigerator Worked, 320 kB, PDF
How the Icyball Refrigerator worked (Video) 3:52, By: St. Clair County Regional Educational Service Agency
Icyball Refrigerator Instructions 250 kB, PDF
Interview with Lewis Crosley, 60 KB, PDF, Recorded April 18, 1975 by Mrs. Elva R. Adams, Museum Director, Warren County Historical Society Museum.
Merle Antony Tuve Discovered the ionosphere and worked on the Proximity Fuze
Simplicity of Radio by Powel Crosley, Jr. The Blue Book of Radio, 2 Meg, PDF
This is the Crosley Broadcasting Corp 11.5 Meg, PDF
THE EMINENT YEARS OF POWEL CROSLEY JR., 1921-1940, by: Charles J. Stinger
A HISTORY OP RADIO STATION WLW by Lawrence W. Lichty – Dissertation 1964, OSU, 150K, PDF
A Trip Through WLW 8.9 Meg, PDF
Broadcasting Salutes the WLW Stations of the Crosley Broadcasting Corp, 40th anniversary, 3 Meg, PDF
WLW is 100 by Barry Mishkind from Broadcasters’ Desktop Resource
WLW 500 KW transmitter Manual 28 Meg, PDF
WLW 500 KW Transmitter Operating Logs 5 Meg, PDF
WLW 500 KW Overall Schematic 147 Meg, PDF
WLW Power Increase Test from 50 KW to 500 KW Jan 4 1934 12.5 Meg, PDF
WLW Crosley’s 40 years of Service 1922-1962 4 Meg, PDF
WLW – The Crosley Radio Corporation Photographic History Album by Charlie Stinger 21 Meg, PDF
WLW 500 kW History by Clyde Haehnle 7.3 Meg, PDF
WLW 500 kW Article by Joe Chambers March 1934 1.3 Meg, PDF
WLW_IRE Article1934 5 Meg, PDF
WLW History Article – April 1947 Newspaper article, 1.2 Meg, PDF
R.J. Rockwell and His Cathanode Rig 710 k, PDF
Video WLW Super-Power Transmitter Tour from 1985 Recorded on December 9, 1985 by Art Vuolo, Jr. and Randy Michaels
Video Video History of the Magnetic Tape Recorder YouTube
Video WLW’s 500,000 watt Transmitter tour by Jay Adrick K8CJY and Geoff Mendenhall – W8GNM thru Randy Hall, K7AGE, YouTube 31:43
Video WLW AM Transmitter Tour 1997, by Jim Hawkins – WA2WHV Chief Engineer: Paul Jellison
Alfred Carlton Gilbert: An Unsung Radio Pioneer by James O’Neal 500 kB, PDF
A History Of The Quartz Crystal Industry In The USA 160 kB, PDF
Breadboard Radios 160 kB, PDF
Early Cincinnati Radio by Joe Rice 1910-1970
The Cats Whisker 50 Years Of Wireless Design 3 Meg, PDF
Directory of Broadcast Receivers 1921-1930 from Vintage Radio by Morgan E McMahon 3rd Edition 4.3 Meg, PDF
Greenwood – A Pictorial Album of Wireless and Radio, 1905-1928, by Floyd Clymer, 1961, 15 Meg, PDF
How Spark Transmitters Work by Dave Snyder 28 Meg, PDF
How Time Balls Worked (See page 12 explaining how the
Nation Weather Service began in Cincinnati because of telegraphy) 3.6 Meg, PDF
Radio and How it Works by Michael Banks 7 Meg, PDF
Radio aboard the RMS Titanic by Fred Archibals VE1FA 3.6 Meg, PDF
The Gibson Girl Transmitter and Kite 1.4 MB, PDF
What’s in a Name-Radio? by Lee Hite
WC8VOA Amateur Radio Station about Ham Radio in disasters, WCPO Cincinnati (Joe Molter) Sept 13, 2018 2:03
PIGS Aloft Kite Club- (People Interested in Getting Stuff Aloft) Monthly kite flying On the Green at the VOA Museum Second Sunday, Noon – 4 PM On the Green at the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting