Re: [IRCA] If you're a Northern California DXer, you're in luck tonight!

[Mike Hardester <DX4EVR@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

        Let us pause to return to those thrilling days of yesteryear when 
I lived in California (less than 100 miles from KCBS) and stations actually 
had SPs. As I recall this incident occurred around 3 or 4 in the AM on a 
winter Monday morning in the late 60's. KCBS was off with its USUAL SP. I 
was hearing a station on 740, but couldn't quite get it past threshold 
level. Headphones were pressed against my ears. Hmmm, maybe if I crank up 
the volume. Even to this day, I vividly recalled what happened next. One 
has not lived the life of a DXer until they have heard a station ID, such 
as -- "This is KCBS, San Francisco, testing," with 50,000 watts of 
ear-splitting power. Such are the trials and tribulations of a (then) young 
DXer, hi!

        Mike

At 03:00 PM 11/7/2004 -0800, you wrote:


> Michael Hawkins wrote:
>
> > KFRC/610 is off the air (noted after 0030 PDT, and still off at
> > 0245).  KCBS/740 off the air (first noted at 0235).  This is almost
> > unheard of AND very welcome for DXing.
> >
> > --------Wouldn't you know, I didn't feel up to par so went to bed
> > early last night.  Last time KFRC was off (when I was listening) was
> > in Nov 76 and I heard China on 615 + Logan UT & Trail BC.  When KCBS
> > was off I heard Houston TX & Montgomery AL but that was many years
> > ago.....
> >
> > 73 don k.
> >


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