Re: [IRCA] WABC

[Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I used to do the same thing in high school, especially on Monday 
mornings.  I think it affected a few of my grades, but I got into 
college anyway.

One Monday morning in 1969 I tuned to 1460 at 3 am and heard a really 
loud station playing the National Anthem.  I eagerly awaited the signon 
announcement, knowing that with a signal this good it would be easy to 
ID it.  The SSB ended and the station launched straight into the Fifth 
Dimension's "Age of Aquarius".  They'd apparently run the signon 
announcement before the SSB, and to make matters worse it faded out 
halfway through the song.  I never did figure out who it was, but I 
remember this moment every time I hear that @#$! song. 

1560 was one of my favorites back then.  KPMC Bakersfield still signed 
off nightly in the mid 70's, so this was probably the last frequency 
that was wide open every night on the west coast.  Over time, I managed 
to hear most of the many daytimers in the midwest and east coast, 
including both SC stations and WSMD-MD, plus 2RE, 3 or 4 Mexicans, 
Puerto Rico, and possibly a couple other Latins.  As Yoda would say "A 
really fun channel it was".

Bruce

Patrick Martin wrote:

>   Bill Block and I were just discussing that. We would get up early and
>check stations in the East signing on a 2 AM, 3 AM, 4 AM PST, as it was
>5,6, and 7 AM in the East. SSB's every morning and many of several
>frequencies all signing on. Then after SSB "Good morning, this is Radio
>Station W... in .......Could be Ohio, NY, NC, whereever. There was
>nothing in the West on the air to QRM the stations on many frequencies.
>
>  
>

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