On 11/9/15, Mark Connelly via IRCA <[email protected]> wrote: > _______________________________________________ > 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] > >
I was in college in Syracuse NY - so we were hit early. I was in the office of the student newspaper when we lost power. Nobody had a portable radio. I was actively DX'ing then, but had only my HQ-100 which was back in my dormitory room on the 13th floor. So even if I'd had a portable there, I probably wouldn't have wanted to walk up to get it. Instead, the few of us who were in the office went back to the apartment of one of the upperclassmen, found some candle and flashlights and hung out. He did have a portable, but everyone was too interested in hearing the news - and I forget now what station we found for that purpose, but it wasn't local - I'd guess it was either WKBW -1520 or WHAM-1180 opn generator power. I briefly aroused some minor interest when it was reported that the outage might have originated in Canada, and I was able to find CBE-1550 to check for that part of the news. It got quite cold, and eventually we dispersed and I did have to walk up the 13 floors to get some sleep. Since then though I usually tried to have at least one portable with good batteries available. Lesson learned. -- Russ Edmunds 15 mi NW Phila Grid FN20id <[email protected]> AM: Modified Sony ICF2010's (2) barefoot w/whip FM: Yamaha T-80 & T-85, each w/ Conrad RDS Decoder; Onkyo T-450RDS; Tecsun PL-310 ( 2); modified Sony ICF2010 w/APS9B @ 15'; Grundig G8 w/whip; modified Sony ICF2010 w/whip _______________________________________________ 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]
