ddsparxx said:
That would've been WNBC.
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What was the first station Y'all caught DX'ing that got You really interested?
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That would've been WNBC.
BRNout said:radioman148 said:
Or, as I remember it, 66 WNNNNNNNNNBC!
Actually in the 50s it was WRCA but that's another story.
I was a SW DX'er at first, then tuning around the AM band in central VA in the mid-70's I heard a SW regular- Trans World Radio 800 Bonaire, Neth. Antilles- thought that was pretty cool and that got me hooked on AM. Of course that lasted many years, during which I also got into the tropic bands of SW, SW pirates and now pretty much exclusively FM.
Greg Myers
Holiday, FL
Greg Myers
Holiday, FL
My sister and I used to listen to local 1410 WPOP (we pi$$ on people) and 1360 WDRC (we don't really care) at night. One day I got bold and moved the dial slightly upward and up popped 1500 WTOP? and then 1520 WKBW which was consitently stronger than Hartford CT's WDRC from about 12 mi away. That station hooked me since it had great music programming and a killer signal.
About that time (I was about 11-12 in 1962) I visted my aunt and uncle for a few days in western CT. He had a decent radio set up and showed me how he got lots of ballgames from all over the place with St. Louis being the furthest away and ironically his favorite team. Boy he loved those Cards. But that radio/tuner of his managed to get 820 Ft. Worth TX-no game but he was just showing off. He claimed occasional reception of 640 KFI as well. Try that today. We spent most of the evening playing with the radio leaving "the girls" the TV to watch.
That got me hooked and many an evening was spent either listening to some sort of game or music. I remember listening to the Chicago stations for their college BB games at night and WOWO for hockey with a decent AM radio I saved up for myself (can't remember the brand).
About that time (I was about 11-12 in 1962) I visted my aunt and uncle for a few days in western CT. He had a decent radio set up and showed me how he got lots of ballgames from all over the place with St. Louis being the furthest away and ironically his favorite team. Boy he loved those Cards. But that radio/tuner of his managed to get 820 Ft. Worth TX-no game but he was just showing off. He claimed occasional reception of 640 KFI as well. Try that today. We spent most of the evening playing with the radio leaving "the girls" the TV to watch.
That got me hooked and many an evening was spent either listening to some sort of game or music. I remember listening to the Chicago stations for their college BB games at night and WOWO for hockey with a decent AM radio I saved up for myself (can't remember the brand).
Living in Syracuse, INdiana with my grandmother trying to find local (but with interference) WRSW and getting Minneapolis instead. Getting my first FM radio and hearing WRIF, Detroit from Western Ohio. Of course all of the top 40s, WABC, WLS, etc. And shortwave, especially Radio canada International
gr8oldies said:
Still have the first & my favorite radio a Zenith Trans Oceanic that I've had since 1961.
Wish I could get it working again.
My dad used to listen to WJJZ 106.1. During tropo, CHR station WBLI 106.1 would overpower WJJZ almost completely. I remember laughing when he asked me why the jazz station was playing rap music.
On TV during tropo, there would be lines on channels 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 25 on cable (all those channels were broadcast networks). When the tropo was strong enough, the co-channel Boston TV stations would overpower the local New York City TV stations on cable (Boston was the same direction as New York). That got me interested in TV DXing. My parents called the cable company, they said that there was nothing they could do. That doesn't happen anymore because the cable company now gets a direct feed or decodes the digital signal. Rather than complaining about lines on the TV during my favorite show, I hooked up an antenna and tried to identify everything I got.
On TV during tropo, there would be lines on channels 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 25 on cable (all those channels were broadcast networks). When the tropo was strong enough, the co-channel Boston TV stations would overpower the local New York City TV stations on cable (Boston was the same direction as New York). That got me interested in TV DXing. My parents called the cable company, they said that there was nothing they could do. That doesn't happen anymore because the cable company now gets a direct feed or decodes the digital signal. Rather than complaining about lines on the TV during my favorite show, I hooked up an antenna and tried to identify everything I got.
Nick said:
Used to have the same issues here with stations in Michigan & Ohio & Green Bay, Wi interfering locally with the Chicago TV stations during tropo.
I really don't bother with DXing anymore, thanks to digital TV all but rendering that useless here in central Connecticut. I got hooked on DXing in the mid-1980s when, while living in Old Orchard Beach, ME, received a drifting signal on channel 2. I thought it might have been channel 2 from Bangor, ME. That all changed when I saw an auto dealer advertisement tagged with "CHARLESTON". Low and behold it was WCBD-TV, a good 906 air miles away! The furthest signal I ever received here in New Britain, CT? KJRH-TV (NBC) channel 2 of Tulsa, OK, a whopping 1299 air miles!
As for FM, I received 97.1 FM from Saint Louis a few years ago. It sounded a lot like the FM Talk station on 96.9 in Boston.
As for FM, I received 97.1 FM from Saint Louis a few years ago. It sounded a lot like the FM Talk station on 96.9 in Boston.
i was maybe 4 or 5. and was being a bad boy by not going to bed. i was scanning the am/fm radio i had at the time and stopped on a am frequency (something caught my attention) and i heard the id (which i do not recall what it was, and had no idea what the call letters were) but after the call, was the city Honolulu.
so here it is 1am. and i should be in bed long ago. and not knowing where this Honolulu place was. i woke my mom up out of bed just to ask her where Honolulu was. she said Hawaii and asked my i wanted to know. i told her i heard it on the radio.
and then she said get your a55 to bed and turn that radio off before i smash it.
but that was one of the things that really got me into radio
so here it is 1am. and i should be in bed long ago. and not knowing where this Honolulu place was. i woke my mom up out of bed just to ask her where Honolulu was. she said Hawaii and asked my i wanted to know. i told her i heard it on the radio.
and then she said get your a55 to bed and turn that radio off before i smash it.
but that was one of the things that really got me into radio
When I was about 10 we started going to the beach in Emerald Isle, NC. 93.3 WDLX was my favorite station there. Some mornings during the summer it would come in at my house in Southern Maryland. We had a 40 foot antenna on our house to pick up the DC TV and radio stations. This was in the late '80's.
kd8hho said:
Where were you located?
kd8hho said:
That's amazing. You wouldn't happen to remember the station you heard would you?
Re: What was the first station Y'all caught DX'ing that got You really intereste
My first DX that I can remember was WSKZ Chattanooga. It's only 80 miles and their 100kW signal reached all the way to Athens AL easily with a car stereo (before W293AH on 106.5 came to be). I remember at the time something with the cable TV (or maybe it was power) lines in my area created an awful annoying squealing sound on 106.5 that I used to annoy the crap out of my parents with while trying to listen to KZ 106. I miss the good ol days before translators popped up everywhere.
My first DX that I can remember was WSKZ Chattanooga. It's only 80 miles and their 100kW signal reached all the way to Athens AL easily with a car stereo (before W293AH on 106.5 came to be). I remember at the time something with the cable TV (or maybe it was power) lines in my area created an awful annoying squealing sound on 106.5 that I used to annoy the crap out of my parents with while trying to listen to KZ 106. I miss the good ol days before translators popped up everywhere.
kd8hho said:
Honolulu was sometimes heard on 650 KHz in Indiana and Ohio. This was
back in the 1970s. You had to null out WSM to hear it. It was long ago
but I think the call letters were KORL. Also, you could hear KFI just about
any night if you stayed up till midnight and nulled out Cuba. Those were
the good ole days and the noise level was much lower on AM.
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