Re: [IRCA] Dubya Dubya EL Norlins, Lousiana

["David Faulkner" <dfdf@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Don & others:

	Yup, while I was far too young to DX in the early `50s, I recall
those wonderful days when such things as the Seattle 1590 showed up, when I
could sometimes listen to KJR or the 5 kw Salt Lakes.  WXYZ would be off
most Sunday mornings and KFJZ would dominate 1270, while Mondays saw WWJ
silent & the frequency dominated by WPEN/KIMN/KPRC depending on the cx.
Have yet to hear any of those from here.  KOA still roars in here overnight,
even with WKNR fairly near.  (Note that Good Karma Communications has
apparently switched their Cleveland stations again and WKNR was noted
carrying ESPN the other day.)  KSL was a long sought & just popped thru with
TOH.  

	I never did QSL much, especially after I tried to verie WIBX in
Utica.  I had them strong for five minutes one MM following the WWJ 0000
s/off, & sent report to the CE, with precise info, direct quotes, the works.
He replied that he couldn't verie, then gave me a little list of all the
station hadd donee during those five minutes, almost word-for-word what I
hadd written in my letter.

73's
David

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of The Kaskey Family
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 9:25 PM
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] Dubya Dubya EL Norlins, Lousiana

Yes David, those were the halcyon days.  From NW Iowa 1950-1953 I heard 106
from California & verified 90 of them.  Oregon & Washington were fairly
common as well.  One of my best catches was
CHUB-1570 Nanaimo BC with 250 watts, heard while XERF was blasting away with
250 kw & the only antenna I had was built into the Zenith I was using.  But
then the commercial radios were super in
those days.

Don K.




David Faulkner wrote:

> The same thing is true in the east.  I Finally pulled KSL a couple months
> ago here in Ohio.  In MI it was night regular.  KFI was a bit easier, but
> when the channels were clearer I had almost all the 50 kw Californians in
MI
> and when I lived in central Illinois I not only had the same ones, but
also
> most off the OR's and WA's.  Even 5 kw west coasters were possible, &
recall
> spending an enjoyable couple hours one Monday morning listening to KKHI
> 1550.  Never hear anything like that now.
>
> 73's
> David Faulkner A.B.D.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of The Kaskey Family
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 3:57 AM
> To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Dubya Dubya EL Norlins, Lousiana
>
> Bill,
>
> WWL is about the last of the big clears that can still be heard out here
on
> the left coast.   WOAI still makes it but not as often as they used to.
WHO
> can be heard when conditions are better
> than normal. There is something about adding these lower powered stations
to
> a previously open (except for distant 50 kw clears) frequency that slowly
> but surely decreases & eliminates the
> signal from the clears.  I could hear WBZ, KDKA, WLW, WCAU,. WBAP, etc for
a
> short while AFTER stations in the west started coming on.  But after a
week
> or maybe two, the distant clear became
> almost impossible to hear.  Interesting but factual.  Wonder what is
> responsible for this condition?
>
> Don K.
> S.F. CA
>
> bill kral wrote:
>
> >  Friday 03 09 07 00:10 PST,Victoria,BC- Listening to
> > Coast to Coast AM with George Norrie on "The Big L"
> > WWL 870 in New Orleans with an increasingly clear
> > signal beating down a spanish station by the
> > minute.Mid-program ad break with ID "WWL" only,no freq
> > or location,no need for details I guess,call sign is
> > enough.Station break at 00:30 : The Big 870 and 105.3
> > WWL FM The News and Sports Leaders.--Bill in BC.
> >
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