Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Re: AM x-band Utilities and Traveller Information Stations

[Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Harms wrote:
> Saul, I can help you with a couple of your stations.
> 
>> 1622-5 SNN DC Washington - I have this in my log and
>> memory tells me it was some kind of news service, or
>> pirate mimicking a news service. Probably 1980s.
> 
> This was a legitimate operation.  I have it QSLed and the date was 20 
> February 1983.  The call listed on the QSL was WJZ-PB, which doesn't 
> sound right to me.  SNN is an abbreviation for Satellite News 
> Network.  

That call doesn't sound right to me either, but the service was 
certainly legitimate. Until the X-band was opened to broadcasting in the 
nineties, licensed broadcasters could utilize certain parts of that 
spectrum for remote program origination.

Anyone remember KPF941, which was licensed on 1622 in Yonkers, NY to 
provide remote program origination to Allen Weiner's stations in 
Monticello, Maine? It actually ended up broadcasting to Yonkers itself, 
at least until the FCC pulled the plug. This would have been around the 
same time as Bill's reception of the SNN RP feed on 1622, which I'll bet 
was used to allow producers at SNN's Washington bureau to communicate 
with reporters on the scene elsewhere in Washington.

These days, those IFB feeds and whatnot usually take place either over 
cell phones or on microwave frequencies, though there are still some in 
the 26 MHz region (like Fred Vobbe's at WLIO in Lima) and on 
business-band channels in the 161 and 455 MHz regions, too.
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