Thanks, Rob. Maybe it was GLX, although I was thinking when I played the morse code in my head, I would recognize it with certainty. Was GLX available at the very bottom of the AM band?
Rod Neumann (832)444-0192 ALLogic Inc. / AdorStore PO Box 217 NEW ULM, TX 78950 On Tue, Dec 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM Rob via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it possibly GLX? I think that was the cw weather station on Galveston I > remember from the early 80's before GPS took over navigating in the Gulf. > On a sailboat in the Veracruz Regatta, it told us about hurricane Bonnie > (we only got big swells). > Rob, K5LZD > > On 2025-12-08 18:05 PM, Rod Neumann via BVARC wrote: > > I have a trivia question for the Houston Oldtimers who may remember in the > 1950s (maybe) but certainly the 1960s, if you tuned to the bottom of the AM > broadcast band (520? 530kc?), there was a broadcast station. It was a > continuous repeating voice loop of weather info followed by an ID. I > think I remember it was Galveston/Houston weather data, especially tidal > info. For decades I remembered the call ID because the repeated Morse Code > identification got drummed in my kid brain, but now that brain cell must > have died because I no longer remember. What was it? Coast Guard? > Commercial Fishing? I just don't remember and it's bugging me... but I'm > hoping someone in BVARC land remembers and can tell me so I can quit > wondering. > > Thanks, > ROD W5IE > > > > Rod Neumann cell: (832)444-0192 > ALLogic Inc. / AdorStore > PO Box 217 > New Ulm, TX 78950 > > > ________________________________________________ > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club > > BVARC mailing > [email protected]http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Publicly available archives are available here: > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > -- > Sent from my generic desktop PC > > ________________________________________________ > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club > > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Publicly available archives are available here: > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >
________________________________________________ Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club BVARC mailing list [email protected] http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org Publicly available archives are available here: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
