Subject: Re: St. Louis station/ Dx (was: Re: KSHE/St. Louis heard in...Indiana)
From: alcassel@crl.com (Alan L. Cassel)
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [login: guest]
b.j. mora (jmora@netcom.com) wrote:
: reminds me of my favorite dx story... i was living in Albany, NY, scanning
: the FM airwaves, and happened upon a rock station at 93.7. Thing was, there was no Capital District station at 93.7. I listened for a while, then heard the
: calls 'KSD'. I checked my FM Altas, and sure enough, it was listed!
: i called the jock on-air, and she couldn't believe where i was.
: btw, it was midday, about 1pm, on a partly cloudy day. Go figure.
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About two years ago, when we lived in New Providence, NJ (about 25 miles
from Manhattan), we did not subscribe to cable. There were *many* times
during that summer when WCBS-TV ch. 2 (NYC) was rendered unwatchable by
interference from KTVI-TV ch. 2 (St. Louis, MO), and it was possible, on
an almost regular basis, to tilt the rabbit ears to and fro until you
could actually *see and hear* the St. Louis station come in rather
clearly.
But this was in an area where WCBS-TV did not come in too clearly, and my
amateur radio experience has taught me to expect things like that to
happen occasionally.
A more interesting occurrence happened back in the early '60's or
thereabouts, when I lived in St. Louis, MO, well within the main coverage
area of KMOX-TV ch. 4. The TV sound was interrupted by interference - on
*one* of two television sets. It got progressively worse, until some
French broadcast completely captured the audio. (The video was not
affected, and only *one* of the two television sets was affected! Both
had only rabbit ears.) It was apparently a Canadian station, because it
sounded like they were giving a Canadian news report. What was genuinely
surprising was that it was capturing a *very* strong signal from the local
station, but *only* the audio, and only on *one* of two television sets,
both using nothing but rabbit ears, in different rooms of the house.
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Subject: Suburban New York City Radio News
From: slutsky@tesla.njit.edu
Organization: NONE
Some Suburban New York City Radio News:
1. WEHM 96.7 FM for East Hampton which is partially owned by Billy
Joel and Christie Brinkley has changed its format from AC to Adult
Album Alternative also known as AAA. They are now aiming for a
25 to 44 audience.
2. There will be a new station in Westhampton, WMRW (98.5 FM) which
plans to simulcast the alternative rock of Nassau County based WDRE.
This was not even in the 1994 M Street Directory.
3. Moving up to Westchester County, WXPS (107.1 FM) changed its
programming from progressive rock and folk to a "Today's Rock"
format. The transformation reflects the owner's hiring of
Oddysey Broadcasting headed by Mike Kakoyiannis to run the station.
Former WYNY music director Steve Blatter is the new program director.
Bruce Slutsky
slsutsky@tesla.njit.edu
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Subject: Re: Station Positioners
From: fybush@world.std.com (Scott D Fybush)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
One of my favorites comes to me from the fair town of Schenectady NY:
"Serving the Capital District and the Great Northeast...this is WGY,
Schenectady."
Then there's Cincy:
"The Big One...700 WLW."
Buffalo NY:
"Serving 31 counties in two nations...with a hundred and ten thousand
watts of power...Majic-102." (WMJQ-FM)
Rochester...with much less power but a bigger ego:
"The only station that matters, WBER" (90.5 FM, 2500 watts).
Also Rochester, going back some 15 years:
"Clear Channel 680 - WNYR" (someone else's clear channel, that is: they
were a 250 watt daytimer :-)
>From the top of Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine:
"The Mountain of Rock...105 WTOS"
...to the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire...
"Peak 103.7" (WZPK-FM Berlin NH, from Mt. Washington)
...and then down a few thousand feet...
"The Valley's AM...WNHV White River Junction - WTSV Claremont" (VT-NH)
...and then a few thousand miles west...
"The Greatest Country in the World...KIBS-FM Bishop California"
...and then back east...
"You're listening to the greatest oldies of all time...on Oldies
103, WODS Boston"
...and then back in time...
"There's Only One...W-N-E-W...Eleven-Three-Oh in New York".