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Stockton, which went into service in 1931. The antenna was strung between two 60-meter-tall
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Laboratories, a small radio equipment company owned by George Turner and located at 1218 North Union Street in Stockton. The company's apparatus was sold through the Atlantic-Pacific Radio Supplies Company of San Francisco.
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