Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] [ABDX] Re: Trying to solve unIDs on 540 from January 1993

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree that WWCS would be most likely, as they were Classical within that timeframe. AFAIK, Long Island ( through numerous calls ) was never Classical.


Russ Edmunds
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--- On Sun, 7/15/12, Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] [ABDX] Re: Trying to solve unIDs on 540 from January 1993
> To: ABDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: am@xxxxxxxxxxx, "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sunday, July 15, 2012, 8:44 AM
> On 7/14/2012 6:07 PM, scott@xxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> >> Looking for anyone living in Central or Eastern
> Time Zones who might've
> >> had a tape recorder rolling during the DX test of
> KNAK-540 in Utah in
> >> January 1993 (sorry, can't remember the exact
> date).  I never got the test
> >> from KNAK, but I heard two unIDs on 540 that
> morning that have bedeviled
> >> me for years.  One was playing classical music
> (Note: AFTER CBK's s/off!)
> >> and the other had a rock (or oldies) format with
> "Brother Louie" by the
> >> Stories, "Whipping Post" by The Allman Brothers,
> and "Wild Thing" by the
> >> Troggs.
> >
> > The 540 was almost certainly one of Saul Levine's
> southern
> > California/Tijuana pair. It appears the Tijuana 540
> didn't become
> > classical XEBACH until 1998 or thereabouts, so we can
> probably narrow this
> > down to the now-defunct KKGO 540 Costa Mesa (which
> wasn't really in Costa
> > Mesa, but 90 miles away in Hesperia.)
> 
> I've had the chance to do some more digging, and I now agree
> with Rick 
> that the 540 with classical wasn't California or Tijuana. In
> 1993, the M 
> Street directory lists 540 as KOJY, doing standards // KJQI
> 1260. That 
> makes WWCS-PA the far more likely option.
> 
> s
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