[IRCA] Re: Graveyard Blog

[The Kaskey Family <kaskeyfamily@xxxxxxxxx>]

1230 & 1240 are my best frequencies.  Usually I have 2 or 3
understandable stations coming in (unfortunately, usually the same ones
night after night).  1340 is usually just a loud hum with intelligible
words seldom breaking thru.  1400 is covered by a local & their null
produces very weak audio.  1450 also has a local but is much easier to
null.  Unfortunately it seems that only Klamath Falls, Reno & Sonora
ever break thru.  1490 is Red Bluff & Lake Tahoe when looping NE & A
batch of spanish speakers when looped SE + King City.  Mostly Petaluma a
stones throw away....But yes, it's better than Iowa where it usually was
just a roar at night on all 6 frequencies (in the 80's).  A few times
someone broke thru but not often.

don k.



Michael Hawkins wrote:

> Its the same here in California for the most part.  On my car radio, I
> get a muddled hum from the combination of all the stations plus the
> garbage from whichever ones are slightly off frequency.  In the house,
> there's no hum but it sounds like 6000 schizophrenics after snorting
> something.  Aah, the good old days, when I could tune in Kansas City
> on GY and actually make out all the words... Mike Hawkins
>
> Mike Hardester <DX4EVR@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>      I began DXing from California in the late 60's, and at times
>      in the 70s
>      and 80's while stationed there I continued to DX. My
>      observations on GY
>      frequencies were similar to Bob's. If one station faded out,
>      then another
>      one usually faded up. There might be multiple stations, but
>      one station was
>      usually dominant. Here in North Carolina, the GY frequencies
>      seem to be
>      nothing more than noise. I've had occasional times when a GY
>      frequency
>      yielded up a station for a log, but usually nothing more
>      than noise.
>
>      Mike
>      Jacksonville, NC R-70 (and previously using a Radio West
>      Loop)
>
>
>      ----- Original Message -----
>      From: "Robert Foxworth"
>      To: "Les Rayburn" ; "Mailing list for the
>      International Radio Club of America"
>      Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 7:05 AM
>      Subje! ct: [IRCA] Re: Graveyard Blog
>
>
>
>      | I was in SFO CA in the
>      | mid-1990's and remember hearing KPRK Livingston
>      | MT on 1340, Oregon Lottery news on 1230 etc.
>      | from there on a portable RX. I've always thought the
>      | band was more "open" in the West than in the
>      | East, where station density is concerned. Then, the
>      | GY's there were jumbles of voices, compared to more
>      | like just noise, although this varies a bit from night to
>      | night. Maybe today, 10 years later, it is different.
>      |
>
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