This will go back quite a way, and I'll do my best on the accuracy....
KCR, at San Diego State, signed on around 1969, using carrier current coupled TX in one of the dorms north of Montezuma . It used 550khz AM, and enough rf bled into the power lines nearby to cover a mile or two in some
directions. Weak, but usable at my 50th street location it would lose out to KOY, AZ at night. After TJ 540 signed
on, KCR switched to 1620. Then, somewhere around 2002, someone at the station hooked it up to a real antenna,
and I could pick it up as far as Scripps Ranch. Haven't heard it on recently.
KSDT, UCSD- RicoGregg jogged my memory on that one. After hearing about it back then, I cruised the area sever-
al times, but was unsuccessful in picking it up.
1977 or so- from my Kensington compound one morning, I picked up a signal on 670. Wow, was I getting some
late morning skip of KBOI, Boise?? No. It turned out to be coming from Grossmont College, maybe 5 miles away.No
carrier current here. It went away within months.
2004-A Friday afternoon going east thru Santee, a station was tracking a CD on 89.1. A little signal hunting the next day led me to Grossmont College, again. From the parking lot, a ground plane antenna was visible on a build-
ing. It made the news, the instructor was chided, and it went off the air, but they kept a website up for awhile.
If anyone has more details on these or other ones, please post 'em.
Big 121
KCR, at San Diego State, signed on around 1969, using carrier current coupled TX in one of the dorms north of Montezuma . It used 550khz AM, and enough rf bled into the power lines nearby to cover a mile or two in some
directions. Weak, but usable at my 50th street location it would lose out to KOY, AZ at night. After TJ 540 signed
on, KCR switched to 1620. Then, somewhere around 2002, someone at the station hooked it up to a real antenna,
and I could pick it up as far as Scripps Ranch. Haven't heard it on recently.
KSDT, UCSD- RicoGregg jogged my memory on that one. After hearing about it back then, I cruised the area sever-
al times, but was unsuccessful in picking it up.
1977 or so- from my Kensington compound one morning, I picked up a signal on 670. Wow, was I getting some
late morning skip of KBOI, Boise?? No. It turned out to be coming from Grossmont College, maybe 5 miles away.No
carrier current here. It went away within months.
2004-A Friday afternoon going east thru Santee, a station was tracking a CD on 89.1. A little signal hunting the next day led me to Grossmont College, again. From the parking lot, a ground plane antenna was visible on a build-
ing. It made the news, the instructor was chided, and it went off the air, but they kept a website up for awhile.
If anyone has more details on these or other ones, please post 'em.
Big 121