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- From: ralph@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Ralph Brandi)
- Subject: Re: wfla mystery
- Organization: Democrats for Broccoli
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:18:52 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.021852.10723@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Dec22.4230.11524@dosgate> <1992Dec22.175647.1@engvms.unl.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec22.175647.1@engvms.unl.edu> tmrdpsrs@engvms.unl.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Dec22.4230.11524@dosgate>, "sander schimmelpenninck" <sander.schimmelpenninck@canrem.com> writes:
- >> I often hear a simulcast of Tampa, Florida broadcast station WFLA
- >> in the Toronto area on 25,870 KHz, using narrow-band FM. The
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- >I have heard this as well and find it puzzling. I tuned it on 25,870 kHz AM
- >and it sounded pretty good. I heard it this last friday, Dec 18 at 2130 UTC.
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- I read the definitive explanation of this somewhere (which I would
- give credit to if I could remember where). WFLA uses this frequency
- to cue its reporter in a traffic helicopter. The station has been
- widely reported in recent months (although I haven't heard it
- myself, not that I've tried or anything radical like that....)
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- Ralph Brandi ralph@mtunp.att.com att!mtunp!ralph
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- R.I.P. Red Barber, 1908-1992.
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