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Re: [IRCA] YAHOOOOOO…NEW STATE # 48 on AM-BCB This morning!!

There were also lots of frequency checks where stations would monthly on a regular schedule broadcast a test for a frequency monitoring station to measure their frequency - all transmitters being crystal controlled at that time.


Russ Edmunds

WB2BJH

Blue Bell, PA

Grid FN20id

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Subject: Re: [IRCA] YAHOOOOOO…NEW STATE # 48 on AM-BCB This morning!!

MM = Monday Mornings when stations used to s/off and do ‘testing.’  Back in the day you never knew exactly what you’d find - listen for test tones and hope that an ID came.  It’s also the time CPCs were often scheduled.  CPC = courtesy program committee who would coordinate with broadcasters to do tests for MW clubs or at least give advance notice of their PoP - proof of performance that used to be carried out on MMs.

Great fun!

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> On Jan 18, 2018, at 4:24 PM, Russ Johnson <radiok3pi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> For us old guys who weren’t in the hobby then....can you give brief
> explanation of MM?
>
> Thanks!
> Russ J
>
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 4:21 PM Bill Whitacre <bw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I did MMs and the ‘CPC trail’ for a few years back in the early/mid-70’s
>> from Lansing, MI with a Worcester loop in the BASEMENT on a Hallicrafters
>> SX-96 with a digital frequency display I made.
>>
>> Man, that was fun!  I had no idea until I came back to the hobby in 2009
>> how much ‘fun’ it was!
>>
>> Oh and sunset was a riot!  I used to sit on 1580 after our ‘local’ WRBJ in
>> St. Johns, MI signed off and get a new station every 15 minutes many
>> nights!  One night I got all the way to Ceres, CA!
>>
>> Enough time travel.  Back to figuring out when I can retire!  ;-)
>>
>> Yay for ‘old guys’ and ‘old days!'
>>
>> —
>>
>>> On Jan 18, 2018, at 3:54 PM, Neil Kazaross <neilkaz58@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> MM's were fun, but I was too young to get into the heyday! I do recall
>> from
>>> Narragansett RI in the late 70's in July when almost the entire country
>> was
>>> in a heat wave. I'd spent much of the MM DXing on my phased Bevs aimed
>> SSW
>>> but before going to bed, I switched over to the Sanserino Loop. WBAL 1090
>>> was off and their was no Ontario stn then. Hmm...NBC nx and a wx report
>> for
>>> high's in the 70's aimed WNW from me. This had to be Montana and a phone
>>> call the next day confirmed that it was.
>>>
>>> 73 KAZ
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You don't always realize until much later how good conditions were in
>> the
>>>> past.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In addition to AK, I also logged OR ( KYMN-1520 on a DX Test ) MT (3),
>> ND
>>>> ( 2) WA ( 1 ), NM ( 1 ), and ID ( KBOI on both 950 and 670 ), all from
>>>> Syracuse, and all with fairly marginal equipment and antenna. I did have
>>>> elevation though.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> But that was also back in the days of not a lot of NSP'ers and lots of
>> MM
>>>> SP's ( 1964-67 ).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Russ Edmunds
>>>>
>>>> WB2BJH
>>>>
>>>> Blue Bell, PA
>>>>
>>>> Grid FN20id
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________
>>>> From: IRCA <irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Robert Ross <
>>>> va3sw@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2018 3:18:41 PM
>>>> To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
>>>> Subject: Re: [IRCA] YAHOOOOOO…NEW STATE # 48 on AM-BCB This morning!!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2018-01-18, at 2:41 PM, Neil Kazaross wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Robb KBOI via sunset skip thru WSCR would be a good shot. Best up
>> coming
>>>>> time would be early Feb. I wouldn't hold my breath for KGEM as the cx
>> to
>>>>> bring that in via SSS also probably have Alberta QRM. KGEM has been
>> heard
>>>>> here only a couple of times.  73 KAZ 55 km NW of Chicago
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the tips Kaz……I'm gonna keep trying, right place and right
>> time
>>>> should bring it in…….
>>>>
>>>> 73…ROB VA3SW
>>>>
>>>> Robert S. Ross
>>>> London, Ontario CANADA
>>>>
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