Re: [IRCA] KSL-1160 or KOA-850, anyone?

["Bob Young" <youngbob53@xxxxxxx>]

I heard KSL 1160 on my first night of BCB DXing in 1977 from Worcester, Ma 
with an RCA 811K console (which actually is a pretty good radio, very 
sensitive and fairly selective for a radio that was made to sound good, 
still got it) and a 300' random LW antenna. I just parked on 1160 for about 
15 minutes at about 1 am and started hearing a noise come slowly fading up 
from the background noise, it got louder and louder until it was in fairly 
clearly for maybe 10-15 minutes if I recall correctlly. It was easy, I'm 
almost positive it was the only US station on that frequency at night back 
then early in the morning. I never heard them again. I used to get WBAP 820 
easy here almost every night also. Never heard KOA or WOAI here. I was never 
what you would call a diligent DXer back in those days but it was much 
easier back then, the airwaves were much less cluttered and there were very 
few canned formats so you actually heard station ID's and local ads, time, 
weather, news etc. domestic DX was a lot more fun back then. If you heard a 
midwestern station back East here you actually felt like you were 
eavesdropping on another culture, were getting a hint of what it was like to 
live out there, you could here farm forecasts commercials, etc. Was a very 
different time from the bland, boring, homogenized radio you hear nowadays. 
This may be a big part of the reason I very rarely DX domestic stuff 
anymore, the content is just too boring. It was also much eaiser to ID 
stations back then because of the local content and steady ID's every 15 
minutes.

Bob Young
Millbury, Ma
KB1OKL


>From: midcapemarc@xxxxxxxxxxx (Marc DeLorenzo)
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>Subject: [IRCA] KSL-1160 or KOA-850, anyone?
>Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:52:20 +0000
>
>I haven't heard KSL-1160 from here in Mass in at least 25 years.  In the 
>60's they were easily heard after Chicago (WJJD back then) signed off for 
>the night.   KOA-850 can be heard during very rare silent periods of my 
>local, WEEI.  By the way, 1050 in NYC is WEPN, not WEHN.  Not that it 
>matters - they will always be WHN to me, hi.
>
>--
>Marc DeLorenzo
>South Dennis, MA
>http://hometown.aol.com/midcapemarc/myhomepage/profile.html
>
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
>From: Charles A Taylor <MWDXer@xxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> > Gang,
> >
> > Has anyone out here in the East DXed KOA-850 or KSL-1160 recently?
> >
> > I'm getting KRMG-740, WBAP-820 and WOAI-1200 regularly, but haven't 
>heard them
> > yet.
> >
> > Finally IDed WEHN-1050 NYC after restarting DXing 9/06. Cleaned up the
> > daytime band
> > pretty thoroughly, and am cleaning up the easier ones around sunrise and
> > sunset.
> >
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