Re: [IRCA] 950 KJR Seattle WA off the air during the SUPER supper bowl - concluded

[saulamdx <saulamdx@xxxxxxxxx>]

supper was right, and it was Seahawks on the menu


--- robert dybas <robert.a.dybas@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> subject line: supper instead of super
> thanks to Willis texas4421 for catching that one.
> hmm, must have been thinking about eating in writing
> the original subject
> line. smile.
> 
> 950 KJR Seattle WA was off of the air during the
> super bowl.
> occasionally they announced that they are off due to
> something like
> "stuffed shirts not allowing them to broadcast the
> most important football
> game of the year" and "why are you listening to the
> radio when you should
> be home watching the game on TV
> 
> an odd situation, I do not remember every hearing of
> a station
> intentionally being silent for several hours in
> "prime time". of course we
> all have had a local not turn off their carrier
> after going off the air -
> or maybe I should phrase that we all have cussed a
> the "engineer" for not
> turning off their carrier after signing off. smile.
> no disrespect for those fine engineers that make our
> hobby possible. I'm
> sure that they were doing needed "testing". big
> smile.
> 
> I found that by using the LSB or USB and a notch
> filter I was able to hear
> a few stations under the KJR carrier.
> up until local sunset the LSB worked better, and
> after sunset I went to USB
> as I was getting some splatter from 940.
> the KIWA was pointing due magnetic north - south.
> magnetic declination here
> is around 18 degrees east. so by my calculation the
> KIWA was at 18 / 192
> degrees. this would seem to be a null for KJR rather
> than any clue to
> station locations.
> other stations were only detectable within a few
> degrees of this heading.
> the loop was tilted +10 degrees for least noise
> reception.
> 
> my other antenna a 100' fence top E-W "long wire"
> had no detectable
> stations.
> 
> I tried PBS and off freq tuning, but didn't gain
> anything.
> I really need to get an antenna phaser working.
> I've got an MFJ-1025 around here somewhere, but
> never have gotten it
> working right.
> 
> pre sunset one SS and one music standards station
> were detectable, but
> neither were identifiable.
> 
> after sunset the SS was id 'd as
> XEIT 950 "Radio Formula" id at top of the hour 1800
> pacific standard.
> I have this Station in my log book from 2-2-1976, a
> Monday, 0305 local as
> XEGM "Radio 95"
> my rig in those days was a Heathkit SB-310 with a
> probe hooked into the
> mixer of a BC-1A used as an upconverter - the
> antenna was a 100 foot
> elevated (12') longwire in an approx E-W direction. 
> brings back memories.
> staying up most of the night and going to work in
> the morning. 
> ah, the joys of youth.
> 
> I heard a couple of other stations, but they faded
> in and out and I never
> caught any clues to id or location.
> 
> anyway a nice logging.
> and this gave me something to do while the better
> half sweated over the
> football game.
> 
> robert dybas
> kent, wa
> jrc 545 with kiwa loop
> 
> 
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