Harold A. Dorschug (March 29, 1913 – September 13, 1999) was one of the master control engineers during ''
The Mercury Theatre on the Air'' broadcast of
H. G. Wells' ''
The War of the Worlds'' on CBS radio in October 1938. Later, he moved to West Hartford, CT and was Chief Engineer and Director of Research and Development of
WTIC radio and Channel 3 television in
Hartford, Connecticut
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for many years. He was a very generous gentleman and helped put many of the Hartford area educational stations on the air on a pro bono basis, including WQTQ at Weaver High School and
WWUH at the
University of Hartford. In 1975 he built and licensed WJMJ, the station in Bloomfield, CT licensed to St. Thomas Seminary. Dorschug died September 13, 1999.
He was an amateur radio operator starting at age 16, and then studied electrical engineering at
Syracuse University
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. He served in the U.S. Navy in World War II. After the war, he was chief engineer at
WEEI in Boston and taught radio and television courses at
Boston University.
Bibliography
* ''The Good Old Days of Radio'' Broadcast Engineering (1971)
Trivia
His
amateur radio
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call signs were W1AST and W8AST
References
External links
Obituary and photographWTIC Alumni Web Site
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20th-century American engineers
Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer Science alumni
Boston University faculty
1913 births
1999 deaths
Amateur radio people