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Re: [IRCA] 630-Cook Islands Sign On Routine (1555 UTC)
- Subject: Re: [IRCA] 630-Cook Islands Sign On Routine (1555 UTC)
- From: "R. Colin Newell" <coffeecanuck@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 10:12:07 -0700
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Original owner of my XCR-30 is none other than Ian McFarland of CBC RCI.
Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA -
> On Apr 13, 2018, at 9:24 AM, Bill Whitacre <bw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In re-reading my WRTH article from 1981 Iâm reminded that the XCR-30 also went to Europe a few times. Pretty sure I travelled without the dozen or so D-cells it craved. Evereadys didnât catch on fire like LiOn cells but they were just as heavy. ;-)
>
> Not so long before I joined VOA, in 1982, story goes that monitors lugged 51Jâs along on reception surveys. Can you imagine?
>
> Thank goodness for the Sony 2001 and later 2010!
>
> â
>
>> On Apr 13, 2018, at 11:53 AM, R. Colin Newell <coffeecanuck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hey! I've a functioning Barlow-Wadley XCR-30!
>> And I assure you, it has never picked up Radio Cook Islands!
>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 5:37 AM, Bill Whitacre <bw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Oh, oh â now you did it â opened up the door to âmemory lane!â
>>>
>>> Hereâs a cut from Radio Cook Islands from July 1980 recorded, as far as I
>>> can recall, on a Barlow-Wadley XCR-30 [which I still have] and a cheap
>>> little portable cassette recorder at the Orange Grove Lodge about half way
>>> around the island from the airport:
>>>
>>> http://realmonitor.com/Cook_Islands_Jul1980.wav <
>>> http://realmonitor.com/Cook_Islands_Jul1980.wav>
>>>
>>> Out of RA news with ID mentioning both 630 and 5045 kHz.
>>>
>>> I almost forgot all about these tapes and the article I wrote for the 1981
>>> WRTH about my visit.
>>>
>>> Thanks for stirring up some happy memories Gary & Guy!
>>>
>>> Now if I can only FIND my copy of the 1981 WRTH!
>>>
>>> Bill Whitacre
>>> Alexandria, VA
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Colin Newell - Editor and creator *of *Coffeecrew.com
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