On 07/05/2010 07:41 AM, RHF wrote:
On Jul 5, 5:16 am, wrote:
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MikeK"Bill wrote in message

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On 07/03/2010 08:23 PM, D. Peter Maus wrote:
On 7/3/10 08:52 , Gregg wrote:
On Jul 3, 9:29 am, wrote:
I just heard on WLS (890 Chicago) that Jake Hartford will be hosting
the Roe
Conn Show on Monday, 5 July, from 2 PM to 6 PM CDT.

That should be interesting!

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Ugh, I can't get it - I don't think. :-( I get 880 but not 890.

WLSAM.com

I listened to WLS around 1960, then after I moved to California they
became not only a non-clear channel broadcaster but changed their venue
from new rock and roll to an adults themed boredom station. PFFFTTT.
Bill Baka
I used to get their top of the chart "Silver Dollar Surveys" from about
1958 to 1962, which of course got lost in the move to Crapofornia.

I was a youngster in the 60's,when we visited my cousins in Dowagiac Mi.
they always had WLS playing.
I'm in the panhandle of Fl. now, I can get it a night, but a good signal
only in the winter.
Mike

- I have only got WBZ for about 30 second during the
- last 15 years. That was my favorite middle of the
- night station, any body remember the name of the
- host that was on at about 2 am back then?

AMDX,

KTWO came on 1030 kHz in 1967 and WBZ's Clear
Channel Signal on 1030 kHz was no longer 'protected'
nationwide; especially to the west and southwest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTWO_%28AM%29

Some also claim that WBZ has changed it's Antenna
http://www.wbz1030.com/
Signal Pattern to better cover it's local along the East
Coast Market Area North-to-South and less East
(out-to-sea); while also reducing it's Western Signal
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=25444
* Antenna Mode : Directional - 1 Pattern
* Power : 50,000 Watts
* Number of Towers : 2
* Antenna Status -since- 1982
http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin...atus=L&hours=U

WBZ AM Broadcast Towers (Hull, MA)
http://wikimapia.org/4893137/WBZ-AM-Broadcast-Towers

WBZ-AM 1030 kHz -Station History-
http://www.bostonradio.org/stations/25444

WBZ is no longer 'alone' on the Frequency : There
are now or soon to be around 35 AM Radio Stations
on 1030 kHz; and most to the West or South of WBZ.
WBZ only has the right to a 750 Mile Signal before
it becomes and Interference issue with the other AM
Stations on the Frequency.

FWIW - Back in the early 1960s I managed to receive
"WBZ" in Boston using a Hitachi TH-812 (TRF AM/MW
Portable Radio) with an outboard 'inductively coupled'
Tunable Ferrite Rod Antenna Feed by a 65 Foot
Random Wire Antenna.

Hah. Back in Christmas of 1962 my Sister gave me a KOBE/KYO AM radio. It
was so directive I could either line it pu for the weak signal or block
the interfering one. Late at night I got some Mississippi stations and
one from Texas. At 14 I was happy to get that.

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...b7e27fc6fc2395
NOTE : This took me Two Winter Seasons to Log this DX Catch.
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...ee7bcb64885bb0

* Hitachi TH-812 (TRF AM/MW Portable Radio)
http://www.transistor.org/collection.../hitachi9.html

~ RHF
.
Lucky. I never made it far enough out to try to build a set to try to
discriminate. Summers were building yet another set, vacation at the
Dells, or some lake I could go fishing in. Let me tell you, Leech lake
earns it's name after I got out to chest height.

Bill Baka