Likely you had WELD. They are heard frequently here before my local signs on. They usually have a very good signal.
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 On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Stan Horzepa <[email protected]> wrote: > Driving to work at sunrise this morning, I had the radio tuned to 690 > trying to identify a station that was way down in the mud. A couple of > times, I heard the announcer identify with two letters: W-B or W-E or some > combination of the letter W followed by a letter that rhymes with E, > obviously not a legal callsign, but probably a nickname of the callsign or > somesuch. > > There was not much content --- some news and sports and ads. I thought > West Virginia was mentioned once or twice. The only station on 690 in that > state is WELD. Could they have been identifying WELD as W-E? I dunno. CKGM > took over 690 about half way to work, so that is all I heard. > > Does anyone have a clue of what I heard? (I was traveling through central > Connecticut at the time.) > > Stan, WA1LOU > _______________________________________________ > IRCA mailing list > [email protected] > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca > > Be sure to register now for the Joint DX Convention > Kansas City, September 9 to 11. Hotel space is filling up. > Registration info: > http://www.nrcdxas.org > > > 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] > > _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Be sure to register now for the Joint DX Convention Kansas City, September 9 to 11. Hotel space is filling up. Registration info: http://www.nrcdxas.org 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]
