GONZAGA GOES GAGA

GONZAGA GOES GAGA

War Keeps Upsetting Plans Of GE Announcer

REPORTS from all over the nation indicate the war has caused marriages by the millions but in one particular case the emergency almost performed vice versa. Luis Gonzaga, Portuguese announcer of General Electric’s shortwave station in Schenectady, unaware of things to come, had made arrangements to marry his prospective bride in her native Cuba on Dec. 10. A scant three days before the big event the Pearl Harbor incident threw young Gonzaga on a 12-hour daily schedule with all leave cancelled.

Undaunted, he rushed all the necessary affidavits to Cuba where on the appointed day his fiancee’s brother took his place by proxy in the ceremony. A fortnight ago Mrs. Gonzaga met her real husband in New York City for a 12-hour honeymoon before Luis rushed back to Schenectady.

As his bride spoke no English, Luis had a phone installed immediately so that she could call him on any problems. Two hours later telephone conversations in foreign languages were forbidden at WGEA.

From page 24 of the January 19, 1942 issue of Broadcasting Magazine

Schenectady Plant Makes New Record

From the May 27, 1922 issue of Radio Digest Illustrated
Concert of WGY Heard in Oakland, California

Schenectady-Frisco Radio Sets Record

Schenectady-Frisco Radio Sets Record

Air Phone Standards Raised by Use of Short 360-Meter Wave, Three and One-Half Kilowatt Power

SAN FRANCISCO.— A new Radio telephone record was announced today. For four hours one night recently. a powerful sending station of the WGY, at Schenectady, New York, conversed and sent music to the Rock Bridge Radio receiving station of the Atlantic-Pacific Radio Supply company.

The record was all the more remarkable because of the fact that it was made on the short 360-meter wave length and with only three and one-haft kilowatts of power used in transmission.

Unusually delicate amplifiers were used in the receiving sets making the test successful.

From the April 22, 1922 issue of Radio Digest Illustrated.