I'm sure the static level was just as high when I was an SWL in the mid and late 60s as it is today, but I lived on 40 meters at night during the summer. That's where I copied my first CW over the air.
Despite the multiple occurrences of Voice of America, Radio Moscow, BBC, Radio Prague, and others, there was still a lot of aAM activity on 40 at night until about 1968 or so. The SSB activity was also pretty solid. I'm convinced there were more signals crammed into the space between 7.2 and 7.3 than there are now that the phone band has been expanded to 7.125. I now here very little AM activity on 40 meters, either day or night, and it looks like everybody has abandoned 14.286 altogether. As for that other AM band, my local BC station signed off at sunset. So, for me it was Art Roberts on WLS from Chicago, and Rob Robins on KAAY out of Little Rock. Will anyone else here admit to listening to Beaker Street, hosted by Clyde Clifford on KAAY? Those "head bangers" don't have anything on the Beaker Street gang! Mike Duke, K5XU American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
