Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] Re: [NRC-AM] Trying to solve unIDs on 540 from January 1993

[Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/14/2012 6:07 PM, scott@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Looking for anyone living in Central or Eastern Time Zones who might've
> > had a tape recorder rolling during the DX test of KNAK-540 in Utah in
> > January 1993 (sorry, can't remember the exact date).  I never got the test
> > from KNAK, but I heard two unIDs on 540 that morning that have bedeviled
> > me for years.  One was playing classical music (Note: AFTER CBK's s/off!)
> > and the other had a rock (or oldies) format with "Brother Louie" by the
> > Stories, "Whipping Post" by The Allman Brothers, and "Wild Thing" by the
> > Troggs.
>
> The 540 was almost certainly one of Saul Levine's southern
> California/Tijuana pair. It appears the Tijuana 540 didn't become
> classical XEBACH until 1998 or thereabouts, so we can probably narrow this
> down to the now-defunct KKGO 540 Costa Mesa (which wasn't really in Costa
> Mesa, but 90 miles away in Hesperia.)

I've had the chance to do some more digging, and I now agree with Rick 
that the 540 with classical wasn't California or Tijuana. In 1993, the M 
Street directory lists 540 as KOJY, doing standards // KJQI 1260. That 
makes WWCS-PA the far more likely option.

s
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