Re: [IRCA] WABC

["Bob Foxworth" <rfoxwor1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> One Monday morning in 1969 I tuned to 1460 at 3 am and heard a really
> loud station playing the National Anthem.  I eagerly awaited the
signon
> announcement, knowing that with a signal this good it would be easy to
> ID it.  The SSB ended and the station launched straight into the Fifth
> Dimension's "Age of Aquarius".  They'd apparently run the signon
> announcement before the SSB, and to make matters worse it faded out
> halfway through the song.  I never did figure out who it was, but I
> remember this moment every time I hear that @#$! song.
>
>
> Bruce


I am not sure about something as late as 1969 but
my recollection of the big 'pest' on 1460, the first
one to s/on onto an empty channel (Monday AM) was
WRAD in Radford Va and I also do remember some
stations that did this trick of running the VID before
the SSB anthem. If your 3 AM was in PST, this
would of course be 6 AM EST, so in truth could
have been someone else as well. But I would not
bve surprised to learn you may have had WRAD.

It was the opposite for us in NJ as 3 AM EST Monday was
the time to hear Calif. signing off and I verified a number
of them. One of my best logs was KROP 1300 but
they never verified for me. All in English back then, too.
I think they were just 500 watts. That was how I first got
Oregon, KMED 1440 who replied with a full page typed
letter mentioning other reports they had from the East.
They had a stunningly beautiful letterhead with a
picture of their studio building. One morning I had an ET
from KBIG 740 Avalon CA (Catalina) who had a very nice
QSL card with a map of the island and a mimeo'ed info
sheet.

These were the days of AN-6 operation and this type
of reception was limited to Monday and occasionally
there would be a Sunday silent, notably WHO 1040
who had too much farm market news on Monday,
and in Omaha they did the same. Even then there were
a number of AN-7 stations, usually the first ones who
adopted the idea of having alternate-main Xmtrs
so they could do maintenance without signing off.

I remember in, I think, 1959 when local WPAT 930 ran
big advertisements saying they were going to AN-7
operation, and I heard and veried WKY and CJCA
on the last day that freq was open. The real DX target
on 930 however was VRH in Suva, Fiji which I never
came close to hearing. I am not sure they were
even possible in that era any more.

Hoping that this reminiscing is of interest. I do recall
"PSL" Paul Lotsof from years ago.


- Bob                  sent at 1119 est




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