Re: [IRCA] What's your closest unheard AM station? KDAC

[Bob Coomler <w6rjc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmmm. I've got a three day weekend, my wife is out of town, the weather is great and its about a 2 hour drive. Road trip!

Bob Coomler
Cloverdale, CA


--- On Sat, 1/31/09, Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] What's your closest unheard AM station? KDAC
> To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Saturday, January 31, 2009, 12:53 AM
> Don,
> 
> Back in the 90s Bob and I were on our way back from LA and
> driving up
> 101 and I got a new report for KDAC I had brought along,
> logging it a
> few days before we left for our trip. I think I even had a
> cassette with
> programming as I remember.  I called the station from just
> before
> Willits and caught their CE.  I asked him if he would QSL
> my report. He
> said "sure" "Where are you?" I told him
> and Bob who as driving the van,
> and I said "Turn", so we took the turn on Hy 20
> and headed West. Quite a
> curving road as I remember. We drove into Ft Bragg and
> easily found the
> station. I believe the format was C&W at the time.
> Really a cool
> building with gardens out front and a neat old radio museum
> in the
> lobby. The tower is right behind the station too. Bob was
> writing for
> Radio World at the time and he always tried to find that
> little unique
> station for a story.  He interviewed the engineer and took
> a bunch of
> pix and he had his story and I had my verie on nice KDAC
> letterhead. It
> was well worth the trip over. I put a picture right in with
> the QSL.
> When I got home, there was a second QSL letter from the GM,
> who had
> answered my report  just after we left for LA. 
>    KDAC had quite a history for many years. The old owner
> had a real
> dislike for DXers. I remember hearing them in the 60s and
> sending
> several reports. I believe I caled the station and the GM
> hung up on me.
> They were really a "Black" station for many
> years. When I logged them in
> the early 90s, the station had just been sold as the old
> owner fell of
> ill health and was forced to sell. 
>    I have not seen the station again, but it was one of
> those beautiful
> sunny Northern California days, not a cloud in the sky. It
> really made a
> nice picture.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Patrick 
> 
> Patrick Martin
> KGED QSL Manager
> 
> 
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