You think you we thought of as weird.....a friend and I both had
Lafayette HA 60 receivers. He made the mistake of sending Radio
Peking a request for a QSL. He got tons of propaganda, including the
little red book and a mao clip on button. He used to bring this stuff
to school.

"....but if you carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't gonna
make it with anyone anyhow......."
The Beatles

Stu



On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 04:28:33 GMT, Jack
wrote:

On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 22:19:10 -0400, starman wrote:

Jack wrote:

Oh, BTW... The only reason I even noticed this one was that I was
intriqued by something else. I haven't heard CHU on 14670 in years,
though I chech it frequently. Today, I was pleasantly suprised to
hear a faint signal from them. Nothing really usable, but I could make
out the beeps and the announcements. I was wondering if it was even
still operating at 14670, even though their website says so. :-)

Do you live inside the skip zone for CHU on 14670? I'm about 400-miles
from them and rarely get a good signal on 14670. I've always assumed
it's because I'm inside the skip zone for that frequency.

That's the likely problem. I now live near Boston, MA, which I figure
to be roughly that distance as the crow flys...

OTOH, When I first discovered CHU (months before I first heard WWV),
back in the 60's and 70's, I lived just across the lake from Ottawa
(Rochester, NY) and picked up a good signal on all 3 frequencies
pretty regularly on the ground wave.

I was kind of young (about 6 or 7) when I first heard CHU. It was real
novel idea - A radio-clock, instead of a clock-radio! g

When I first tuned in, I listened to it for hours before I finally
turned my attention to the 25m band for my late afternoon broadcast
from RSA, Johannesburg. (I loved their interval signal with the
guitar)! I was taunted endlessly by the other kids because was
"weird - I'd rather listen to shortwave radio than watch wrestling on
TV. Oh well... :-)

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