Sometimes you'd wish that it were on the local channels, instead of the regionals or clears, where lots of stations would just give it a rest at midnight, the way they used to do. On the GYs there was often quite a lot going on (and better yet, they used to ID after every song).
But, kiddingly and enviously, you got a *K* call on a local frequency, Crain! Back in the Long Island DX days, the crew was near the point where each of us would convert to another religion just to hear a milestone 'K' call on a local channel before the others heard one.
I heard a couple of GY 'C' calls from there, one of them CFLS from French Quebec on 1240, through a curiously huge null of WGBB and what sounded like an actual pipeline to the CFLS studio one early evening. And I did hear an 'H' call -- HJAS from Colombia -- on 1400. Of course, there had to've taken a massive Aurora that probably woke up the birds all the way to the Equator, plus a resonant tide across the all-water path for THAT to've come in, so I don't consider that a triumph of DXing skill. Heck -- there were Spanish stations on just about every GY frequency that night. Plus HJAS was listed as 3000 watts, which is kind of unfair for a 1400 station.
But aside from two 'K' stations that came in on overnight frequency-check tests, none of our Long Island gang ever heard one on regular schedule.
Good catch, Crain! 102 miles or no, the reception of a graveyard K catch is regarded as an occasion on this ocean for a toast, hi.
