Pre-Dawn Monday Mornings

[gar hi]

Thanks for sharing that, Bruce! Wow.

 

[cyberdad]

Great story, Bruce. Wow! And, Steve, thanks for the kind words. I always enjoy the stories you tell in your posts!

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

@ Semoochie:
>> 'Kennedy Airport in August '63? That's quite a trick!' <<
Bwaahaaahahaaa! And good catch!
Of course, the place was called 'Idlewild' Airport in 1963 .... jets nonetheless coming in for a landing every ten minutes to interrupt our stickball games.

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One other story. This is a 'milestone' DX tale vis-a-vis those pre-dawn MM's. I'm figuring it was around 1965.
By buddy Vinny -- with whom I just spoke to yesterday on another topic -- was DXing four blocks west of me on the same Monday morning. WKBW was off. And apparently, so was KOMA. In their absence I heard a real faint pop-music station calling itself 'Kim' on 1520. And after a look through the Vane A. Jones book and the station's mention of 'Oregon'-something, the obvious one was KYMN in Oregon City.
Meantime, * at the same time *, Vinny was stalking some station claiming to be on 'the ABC'. After a day or so of feverish research into matters, he concluded he was getting 2NA from New Castle Australia. And he later got back a verie from them!
Vinny was using an American-Bosch radio with an outdoor diamond-shaped loop on a pully that night. Four blocks east of him, I was using some Zenith AM-phono console with an indoor loop.
I don't believe Vinny ever logged Oregon from near 'JFK Airport'. And for reasons still unexplained to me, I never heard Australia.

The kicker is that each of us were sneaking up on our game .... DX milestoes .... at the same time ..... the same embezzled school-sleep hour ..... a mere four Queens blocks aprt ..... and that both catches were one frequency apart. My KYMN was on 1520 ; his 2NA was on 1510.

That must have been some ludicrous propogation MM.

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Wonderful story, R Bruce .... and thanks again Cyberdad! Now I can feel my braces coming back ......

 

[317C50KW]

I a recall a firm in Lee's Summit, MO that did frequency measurements, a couple of midwest AM's I worked for used their services.

When the expanded band first cranked up I was sitting in a church parking lot in Rockwall, TX scanning the car radio dial while waiting for my daughter. Loud and clear was the 1640 out of the Los Angeles area, at the time their format was traffic and weather for LA.

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

I heard KDIA 1640 Vallejo, CA in Michigan during the early days of the expanded band. Over the years, I heard KNX 1070, KFI 640, KPMC 1560, and KNBR 680 from California, from the late 1960s to the 1980s, when a whole bunch of stations went fulltime or upgraded on 640, and most stations on the other frequencies went 24/7 without regular silent periods.

 

[mimo]

I a recall a firm in Lee's Summit, MO that did frequency measurements, a couple of midwest AM's I worked for used their services.

When the expanded band first cranked up I was sitting in a church parking lot in Rockwall, TX scanning the car radio dial while waiting for my daughter. Loud and clear was the 1640 out of the Los Angeles area, at the time their format was traffic and weather for LA.

That station was at 1650, There was KDIA from Vallejo, much further north.