> > Never visited FEN nor the local JOs (including NHK). Too bad. > > When I lived in Philippines, I visited every station I could get to. > > 73 de Charles
When I was on Univ. 7 Seas (mid-60's) I spent 3 days in Manila. Met some local fellows one day through a student-friendship program and they took me to visit DZRM-1190, DZMT-1100 The Station of the Manila Times, and the FEBC station DZAS on 680. Still have a business card from Warren Beals, and a tape with copies of jingles from DZMT whose format was a copy of the "beautiful music" then used by WPAT 930 NYC including the "gaslight" jingle. Next stop was HK and one day, I took the hydrofoil to Macau and met the CE of Radio Vila Verde-735 and nice studio/xmtr tour, also of his ham shack (CR9AH a very famous ham DXer then). We were told by the school to avoid the hydrofoil (40 min. trip) and use the Victoria Steamer (3-1/2 hour trip) because the hydrofoil company was operated by communists. Naturally every one of the students took the hydrofoil, except I came back so late from Macau, the steamer was the only thing running and I got in some trouble for missing ships curfew. Macau even then was famous for casino action. They weren't sure why I wanted to go there (a really tiny place) and not gamble, I was then over 21. As for JO land we had stopped in Yokohama and it was, as I recall, too complicated to try and get to any radio stations, plus it seemed less of a novelty for those stations to have visitors from what I could gather. - Bob _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
