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Mystery Station On 1620 kHz

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Schroedingers Cat

I think this was one station, it could have been two. It was actually easier to identify instrumental tracks because of the violin and piano frequency range. Some seemed to be circa 1960 Classic Country, some circa 1960 Instrumentals. Heard July 31 11:30-12:00 PM.

He'll Have To Go-Jim Reeves
Last Date-Floyd Cramer
Theme From A Summer Place-Percy Faith
Poor People Of Paris-Les Baxter
Theme From Gone With The Wind
Nola
 
The only AMs running B/EZ I know of are KQV 1410 Pittsburgh and CMBQ 530 Havana. Even most Adult Standards stations have long jettisoned these songs...
 
I keep forgetting your (and others') QTH, Schroed. Midwest someplace, hi ?

The nf8m site shows 5 US stations, all 10000/1000 U-1. I imagine, of coursse, that it were one of those, you'd've known.

There was a station downstate from my den in PA, named KA2XAU, that ran a test broadcast on -- LOL, my birthday -- October 1994. Widely heard. It may have been before the X-band came to be.

I ask about fidelity. You mentioned strings and piano standing out among the songs. See, another station on 1620, an LPAM, supposedly got out 7 miles on a part 15 transmitter. Run by a pal of mine ( I won't mention the guy's name ; lets just call him David Denis Michael Seney). He had the modulation cranked up to maybe 266% and might've been feeding the signal into a few longwires through that means of inducing it without physically attaching it. You would know the term.
Thing is, I was hearing bass patterns on my GE SRII (tuned to 1620) from this somewhat distant station that I was not hearing that well on his internet feed.
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
I think this was one station, it could have been two. It was actually easier to identify instrumental tracks because of the violin and piano frequency range. Some seemed to be circa 1960 Classic Country, some circa 1960 Instrumentals. Heard July 31 11:30-12:00 PM.

He'll Have To Go-Jim Reeves
Last Date-Floyd Cramer
Theme From A Summer Place-Percy Faith
Poor People Of Paris-Les Baxter
Theme From Gone With The Wind
Nola
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Are you sure it was 12 P.M. NOON?
 
Theres a pirate on 1620 that pops up now and then, i think...... and there was a licensed non comm in VA? was it... that ran "part 15" *cough *cough* somewhere aroudn 1620/1630
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
Theres a pirate on 1620 that pops up now and then, i think...... and there was a licensed non comm in VA? was it... that ran "part 15" *cough *cough* somewhere aroudn 1620/1630
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The only thing is that most pirates wouldn't even know those tracks, let alone play them. I only know them because I am older and have a musical background.
 
Could have been an antique radio guy's Part 15. At least a possibility. A lot of those guys use the talking house kind of TX's to play era-appropriate music on their antique radios.
 
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