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1620 FLORIDA "WBUL" University of South Florida, Tampa; 1700+ 25 March, 2006. Noted very strong while at the Museum Of Science & Industry (across the street from USF), as well as all over the campus, with live DJ, rap music, ID's. Signal audible to about a mile or so south of the campus. Carrier current(ish) operation that's been active for years, though I've never thought to log it until now, at least as far as I can recall. 5009.82 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Radio Cristal Internacional, Santo Domingo; 0006-0007* 26 March. Tuned across the channel only to catch the vocal national anthem, off. Fair. 6687.99 ZIMBABWE ZBC; 0025- 26 March, 2006. Nice local pop/highlife fusion vocals, mostly nonstop. Canned "Radio Zimbabwe" by cheery man over music bed. Thanks Ed Rausch III tip, via Bob Wilker. Any particular reason (other than the usual sloppiness) the WRTVH-2006 doesn't list Zimbabwe in the country table, or even their first update in January? 9504.80 BRAZIL Radio Record, São Paulo; 2350-2359 25 March. Fair with soccer coverage, commercials. Blocked by WYFR sign-on at 2359 (and announcing 11720 and 9715 only). 95.3 MHz FLORIDA W237CW (WJIS, "The Joy FM" translator), Pinellas Park; sadly, this one is now active, blocking another semi-open channel locally. Fair signal at the QTH. Of course, the main 88.1 MHz signal blankets all of Tampa Bay, but "The Joy" continues to add a slew of these things across the region. 96.3 MHz FLORIDA (PIRATE) unidentified, Tampa; the Haitian kreyol noted strong, stereo with nonstop vocals while in Tampa today, March 25, 2006. Signal really bumps up in the Waters and Hillsborough area, seems to be located roughly SW of Busch Gardens. Didn't have my equipment with me today, otherwise I'd have tried to DF this one. Anyone know if the old Blaw-Knox towers on the Gandy Causeway (between St. Petersburg and Tampa) are being disassembled, as I've heard was scheduled to happen? Driving past these today, March 25th, I saw a lot of equipment (no crew working on a Saturday), and big pieces of tower grids on the ground beneath the south tower, seemingly from the tower judging by the odd, non-parallel appearance as I approached from the east. If so, let it be known I may have been the last person to photo document the towers in their original state a the late last year. Hmmm, I also have one brick from the front of the original (now crumbling) WSUN block house located next to the north tower which happened to find its' way into my car that day. Could this be eBay material? And -- if dismantling is happening -- does this affect the 620 kHz WDAE pattern? A classic Tampa Bay skyline that's been around all my life will disappear once these are down. *********************************************************** Terry L Krueger Clearwater, Florida USA 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W Visit my "Florida Low Power Radio Stations" at: http://home.earthlink.net/~tocobagadx/flortis.html or: http://www.geocities.com/geigertree/flortis.html *********************************************************** ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2006 is out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059367/hardcoredxcom/ ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
