Re: [IRCA] WABC

[The Kaskey Family <kaskeyfamily@xxxxxxxxx>]

Very interesting Bob.  I remember WRAD-1460 signing on in the clear at 2 a.m. PST in the sixties.  Never heard Suva either but I did hear Midway Island on 920.

don kaskey s.f. ca



Bob Foxworth wrote:

> >
> > 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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