Swan Island maybe?
Charles A Taylor wrote:
Don,
You think you're going to goad me into responding to that little paragraph?
Well, you're RIGHT. But where could we be deported to? No body would have us.
Chollie
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Greenville, North Carolina
I agree. A person's DX is another person's pest. I would love to hear
WPTF, WBT, and others nowadays..
Patrick
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Gangue,
I am up very early most days and this morning I caught the tail end of Coast
to Coast AM. The guests were Casey Jeannie Kasem.George asked them
where they thought radio was headed. Jeannie quickly said that she thought
that we will all end up working for one person.
Steve
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1350 WZGM NC BLACK MOUNTAIN 0655 10/03/07
AD FOR A SALE AT 'WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA FURNITURE' STORE. PROMO FOR A TALK
SHOW EACH MORNING AT 7 AM ON WZGM. (MISSED NAME OF SHOW). ID AT 0700, 'AM
13-50, WZGM THEN A 15 SECOND PAUSE, ANOTHER ID, Z-1350 INTO OLDIES SONGS.
LOTS OF QRM AND QSB. [WM-TN]
770 WKFB PA Jeannette. 0520 CST. Good signal with oldies and 770
KFB slogans. Everything else just a jumble under WKFB. NEW.
Paul LaFreniere
Grand Marais, MN
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At 1410UT, only weak carriers are audible, with a few stronger
carriers on the usual suspects. Someone turned out the lights?
At 1412UT, brief talk on 774 then back to splash
Nick
Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria,
This morning I got one audio and that was JOAK-594 with JJ talk at 1340 UT with
a fair signal at times. Carriers were heard on 558, 567, 585, 693, 738, 774,
828, 873, 963 and 1566 from 1310-1355 UT all carriers were very weak.
Bill Block
Prescott Valley, AZ
Drake R8
Listened from 1357-1436 UT
279 Russia, Radio Rossii fair carrier, weak audio with music.
774Japan, JOUB fair at 1357
828Japan JOBB very weak at 1412
1134 Japan, JOQR weak 1416
Carriers levels:
6) 1566
5) 639 693 1287 1422
4) 594 666 738 1098
At 05:45 PM 3/9/2007 -0800, you wrote:
At 04:06 PM 3/9/2007, you wrote:
There indeed is such a site for silent key dxers. Now I've forgotten
the URL. It's based in Europe somewhere, I think. I posted to it a few
years ago regarding one of our own local Victoria DXers...Walt.
Walt,
I'm
Propagation is indeed a weird and wonderful thing. After hearing no
TPs and many DUs yesterday, today was just the reverse. Not a DU to be
heard, but the big Japanese stations were in very well, and also heard
audio on 1206 from China, the Japanese on 1242, 972 from Korea, and
Korea on
2007 MLB NETWORKS - TORONTO BLUE JAYS
(per toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/tor/schedule/radio_network.jsp)
570-CKGL-Kitchener ON
590-CJCL-Toronto ON (Flagship)
600-CKAT-North Bay ON
630-CFCO-Chatham-Kent ON
680-CJOB-Winnipeg MB
790-CIGM-Sudbury ON
900-CHML-Hamilton ON
920-CKNX-Wingham ON
At 17:06 10/03/2007, you wrote:
Propagation is indeed a weird and wonderful thing.
Indeed it is, as the signals must have all been going to Alberta. I
think this was the deadest morning here so far this month. Getting
audio out of 774 was an accomplishment.
Just checked the propagation
Patrick Martin wrote:
By a couple of comments, I am feeling like we may be boring some of
the others on the list. I could go on and on going down memory lane.
This has been fun. But we don't want to run everyone else off either.
Maybe we should wind this down. But as I said, it has been a
Mike,
By the comments, it looks like most want to continue with this subject,
and I have not heard anything from Lynn. By the subject line, if someone
is not interested, they can delete it. I have no complaints as I have
been enjoying it myself. By the way, does anyone remember Hank Wilkinson
of
How about setting up a moderated blog? We could post things to it
and carry on the discussion of old-time DXers there. Is there someone
in our midst with the web publishing skills to accomplish this? If
not, my son is a web designer, perhaps I could persuade him to help.
Bill Harms
On 10
Mke Hardester writes:
My point is this -- facts and figures about a person are nice, but that tells
us virtually nothing about the person as a whole. We DO need to preserve this
for future generations.
Comments, Mr. Krumudgeon?
The proverbial nail has been pummeled on the noggin when it comes
I may be wrong, but I think most of the affiliates outside Ontario only
broadcast selected games (usually weekend games only) rather than the full
162 game schedule.
In case of early-season conflicts with the Raptors, the Jays games will
move from CJCL-590 to CKTB-610. There may be a few more
Patrick, you'll find a picture of Hank Wilkinson that I took in 1958 at his
home, then in North Hollywood, among the pix I've posted at the aforementioned
NRC site.
John Callarman, KA9SPA, Family Genealogist, Retired Newspaper Editor,
DX-oyente, Krum TX (AKA Qal R. Mann, Krumudgeon)
I think the origins of this post got at the essentials - who are those
in the DX hobbies over the past near-century who have made signficaint
contributions to the hobby, and what did they do. A little bio info
along with that doesn't hurt, but I'm not sure how far afield from
DX'ing many would
A few weeks back when we Northwesterners heard that KIRO was going
off for maintenance, I was able to log KSPN and KFIA. Here's what
happened when I sent a report (CD) to KSPN.
Earlier this week I received an E-mail from Asst. CE Mike Worrall
acknowledging receipt of my report and telling
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:Issued: 2007 Mar 10 2109 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center
#
# Geophysical Alert Message
#
Solar-terrestrial indices for 09 March follow.
Solar flux 71 and estimated mid-latitude A-Index 2.
The
2007 MLB NETWORKS - BOSTON RED SOX
(per www.weei.com/Article.asp?id=136812)
(per www.wrolradio.com/home.htm)
(per Art Blair with thanks)
550-WDEV-Waterbury VT
620-WZON-Bangor ME
680-WRKO-Boston MA (Co-Flagship)
830-WCRN-Worcester MA
850-WEEI-Boston MA (Co-Flagship)
900-WJJB-Brunswick ME
Speaking of silent keys -- or maybe it's silent headphones for us -- anyone
remember Sid Rosenbaum of Wheeling, WV? When I was a DX pup, in 1960 or so,
Sid noted my eager, youthful reports to DX NEWS, saw my nearby address (30
crow miles away), sorta took me under his wing, coaching me on
2007 MLB NETWORKS - NEW YORK YANKEES
(per www.wcbs880.com/pages/23958.php?contentType=4contentId=125003)
550-WGR-Buffalo NY
570-WSYR-Syracuse NY
590-WARM-Scranton PA
600-WICC-Bridgeport CT
600-WSJS-Winston-Salem NC
620-WHEN-Syracuse NY
620-WVMT-Burlington VT
630-WMFD-Wilmington NC
IEN-GA Ira Elbert New, III - DRAKE R8B 135 N/S Wire
570 WIDS KY Russell Springs - 03/10/07 1904 - Gospel Music. Weak, but
steady signal above the mix. 570, Southern Kentucky Gospel. (IEN-GA)
Bert New
Watkinsville, Georgia
Proudly Serving You Since 1964!
At 02:50 PM 3/10/2007 -0800, you wrote:
When I was at WQAM doing the all night show several lifetimes ago, we
were 5000/1000 non-directional and could go to 5kw at 4am.
Cousin Pete,
Back in the 60s, a bunch of daytimers out East could sign on with full power
at 0400, if they received no
Yes. I seem to recall some outfit called the El Rancho Bar Association.
Something about an annual softball game that was supposed to be played the
year of the Toledo convention but somehow didn't happen. I recall asking
either Larry Godwin or DEE about the ERBA shortly after I joined IRCA was
The same thing is true in the east. I Finally pulled KSL a couple months
ago here in Ohio. In MI it was night regular. KFI was a bit easier, but
when the channels were clearer I had almost all the 50 kw Californians in MI
and when I lived in central Illinois I not only had the same ones, but
Gang,
Has anyone out here in the East DXed KOA-850 or KSL-1160 recently?
I'm getting KRMG-740, WBAP-820 and WOAI-1200 regularly, but haven't heard them
yet.
Finally IDed WEHN-1050 NYC after restarting DXing 9/06. Cleaned up the
daytime band
pretty thoroughly, and am cleaning up the easier
IEN-GA Ira Elbert New, III - DRAKE R8B 135' N/S Wire
970 WFSR KY Harlan - 03/10/07 2003 - Gospel Music. Good signal with the
occasional fade under WGTK, Louisville, KY. You're listening to 970,
WFSR. (IEN-GA)
Bert New
Watkinsville, Georgia
Proudly Serving You Since 1964!
Heck, I can't even pull WRKO or WEEI (former WHDH) which were hrd
occasionally in MI, WRKO even with CHLO or CHFI (CFTR) on 680.
David Faulkner
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On Behalf Of Patrick Martin
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 3:51 AM
To:
Charlie:
KOA is relatively easy here in Maryland when cx to the West are
halfway decent. I think they can be heard easily if you are far
enough away from a nearby co-channel station. I heard KSL a couple of
months ago, but it was a situation where the ID popped in while
camping on the
Fred!
I've extremely fond memories of Sid, for many of the same reasons you
stated. When I was 16 or 17 around 1950-1951 I was really a rabid
dxer. After finding out about the National Radio Club in 1950 I
subscribed and began regular correspondence with at least 2 dxers, Sid
Rosenbaum Len
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2007 Mar 11 0003 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center
#
# Geophysical Alert Message
#
Solar-terrestrial indices for 10 March follow.
Solar flux 71 and mid-latitude A-index 4.
The mid-latitude
Greetings David, long time no hear/see!!!
Well ERBA was rather dangerous for a spell but eventually evaporated when
reality started appearing to all of us one at a time :-)
The only softball game I recall was at the aforementioned Vancouver 1970
Convention when we went to the big park they
Yes David, those were the halcyon days. From NW Iowa 1950-1953 I heard 106
from California verified 90 of them. Oregon Washington were fairly common
as well. One of my best catches was
CHUB-1570 Nanaimo BC with 250 watts, heard while XERF was blasting away with
250 kw the only antenna I
Don,
Yes indeed, you were at the Wheeling NRC convention in 1953. I sent
the pictures in to the NRC web site but was not able to identify
everyone in them. Could you take a look and possibly identify some of
the ones labeled UNKNOWN? Thanks.
Pete Taylor
Tacoma, WA
12225w 4719n
ICF2010 +
Has anyone out here in the East DXed KOA-850 or KSL-1160 recently?
Yes, Chucky, I have logged both here from the Smokey Mountains area of Polk
county Tennessee. KOA is somewhat of a semi-regular and back in November I
had KSL on 4 different occasions.
If the nut in Gainesville, FL on 850 would
Probably not, but had a strong het on 1134 for about 5 minutes around 0300
utc; 1197 currently with a strong het, 0310 utc, while 1134 has faded. Some
hets on LWBC freqs, but very heavy static already this early evening, though
198 DIW,NC beacon is already doing well despite the S9+10 static
IEN-GA Ira Elbert New, III - SONY ICF-2010
1600 KLEB LA Golden Meadow - 03/10/07 2205 - Zydeco Music, Oldies and The
Blues. Decent, steady signal above the mix of stations on the frequency.
The Rajun' Cajun, KLRZ, 100.3 and 1600, KLEB. Golden Meadow. (IEN-GA)
Bert New
Watkinsville,
Pete,
Great going! Mike has QSL'd me a few times under different calls
including KSPN a few years back. He is one great guy!!! It seems to
amaze them when someone hears KSPN up this way.
I remember listening to the old KMPC with their live adult standards
back in the 80s on many of our trips to
David,
If it wasn't for the beverage I could not have logged WRKO. CFTR may
have made it with my other antennas, but not very good I am sure. But
the real great thing was KNBR being off of course. I forgot to mention,
a couple rarities for years I never logged, even in Seward AK in the 60s
were
Bruce,
I did not know John Price was at KGY in the 70s. My first verie from him
was from KVOS 12 Bellingham, also in the 70s. Then a couple years later
at KAYO 1150. Many since then too. My KGY QSL is the classic color
polstcard pix of the studio tower there on the bay. I got it about
1968.
From what I understand, the station sends most of its signal out into
the Atlantic, especially at night when it doesn't cover the Boston area
all that well. It's one of the more commonly heard TA catches for DXers
in Britain and Scandinavia. So it's no surprise that WMEX was
listenable in
Audio 684 837 855. May or may not have had audio on 612 774 1215. Carriers 531
549 621 738 747 873 882 981 945 954 99 1008 1026 1098 1116 1179 1584 1602. May
have been more earlier, wasn't listening. 73, George S., MN (Eton E1, Quantum
8 loop)
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I also have a KVOS John Price QSL, but it's a different guy with the
same name. The John Price we know never worked there!
Bruce
Patrick Martin wrote:
Bruce,
I did not know John Price was at KGY in the 70s. My first verie from him
was from KVOS 12 Bellingham, also in the 70s. Then
I have been listening to 1110 for about an hour, and have a station playing
opera and long hair music. Anyone know what this might be??
I checked other frequencies that I know that Cuba plays music on, but no
match. And you might guess, it fades at the top and bottom of the hour. Lots
of QRM from
Bruce Portzer wrote:
John also said he has been enjoying Scott Fybush's ongoing website
articles about his trip through the northwest, especially the parts
about the Portland and Tacoma/Olympia stations (John was KGY's CE in
the 1970's). I thought you might appreciate the feedback,
Bruce,
I sent a thank you note to John and enclosed a CD of KFIA, KSPN and
the clicking sound. Also, I didn't detect any apparent KIRO carrier
while I was listening to these two stations, so I asked him how much
power he might have been running (I mean there must have been
something on
Hi Bruce,
Really? I always thought it was the same person. Thanks for clarifing.
Patrick
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