Re: [IRCA] 630-Cook Islands Sign On Routine (1555 UTC)

[Bill Whitacre <bw@xxxxxxx>]

In re-reading my WRTH article from 1981 Iâm reminded that the XCR-30 also went to Europe a few times.  Pretty sure I travelled without the dozen or so D-cells it craved.  Evereadys didnât catch on fire like LiOn cells but they were just as heavy.  ;-)

Not so long before I joined VOA, in 1982, story goes that monitors lugged 51Jâs along on reception surveys.  Can you imagine?

Thank goodness for the Sony 2001 and later 2010!

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> On Apr 13, 2018, at 11:53 AM, R. Colin Newell <coffeecanuck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hey! I've a functioning Barlow-Wadley XCR-30!
> And I assure you, it has never picked up Radio Cook Islands!
> 
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 5:37 AM, Bill Whitacre <bw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Oh, oh â now you did it â opened up the door to âmemory lane!â
>> 
>> Hereâs a cut from Radio Cook Islands from July 1980 recorded, as far as I
>> can recall, on a Barlow-Wadley XCR-30 [which I still have] and a cheap
>> little portable cassette recorder at the Orange Grove Lodge about half way
>> around the island from the airport:
>> 
>> http://realmonitor.com/Cook_Islands_Jul1980.wav <
>> http://realmonitor.com/Cook_Islands_Jul1980.wav>
>> 
>> Out of RA news with ID mentioning both 630 and 5045 kHz.
>> 
>> I almost forgot all about these tapes and the article I wrote for the 1981
>> WRTH about my visit.
>> 
>> Thanks for stirring up some happy memories Gary & Guy!
>> 
>> Now if I can only FIND my copy of the 1981 WRTH!
>> 
>> Bill Whitacre
>> Alexandria, VA
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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