Re: [IRCA] Formal sign-on/off

["Dan Ferguson" <shortwave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

or Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Hauser" <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 10:51 PM
Subject: [IRCA] Formal sign-on/off


> The super-florid sign-off (and sign-on) is still occasionally heard on 
> Latin
> American stations, outstripping any gringo version, but also on the way 
> out
> there, I think. You used to hear much the same wording on different 
> stations as
> if they were working from a style book.
>
> A pet peeve of mine is that altho they sign on and off numerous times a 
> day on
> different frequencies, not a single US shortwave station, government or
> private, ever bothers to play The Star Spangled Banner. 73, Glenn Hauser, 
> OK
>

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