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Show It was just a radio myth! Signal wasn't re-radiated from spires of the Temple By QUIG NIELSEN It was just a radio myth! When radio came into being in the Salt Lake Valley, one of the widespread beliefs of the day was that the pioneer station signal 4 'was re-radiated from the walls and spires of the Salt Lake Temple. ' ' The myth apparently originated from the fact that the radio's transmitter was located just across the street south of the Temple. This and other interesting facts and fantasy notes are recorded in "Earl Glade Recalls.' Glade wrote that one of the early uses of a transcontinental transcon-tinental telephone network was for a radio broadcast of Charles A. Lindbergh's return to the United States after his historic flight to Paris. The broadcast took place on June 1 1, 1927, and the Salt Lake City radio outlet was one of the 50 stations comprising the network. According Accor-ding to Dunlap's Radio & Television Almanac it was the largest group of radio stations assembled up to that time. "The American Telephone and Telegraph Company set up a high frequency note on the wire circuit of about 5,000 cycles which continued for three days and three nights," Glade said. "This was done to test the constancy con-stancy of the telephone circuit. The network hookup proved successful" Graham McNamee, a great pioneer radio broadcaster, broad-caster, was the announcer for Lindbergh's arrival. When he "was knocked over and trampled by the wildly wild-ly excited crowd, the overflow crowd at the Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City felt as though it were part of the action." Source: Records of KSL; Glade, "Earl Glade Recalls ." (Quig Nielsen is an information officer for the Museum Mu-seum of Church History and Art in Salt Lake City.) |