Bill Turner said :

Shame on you, Jim. :-)
Are you saying you never tuned your car radio while driving late at
night trying to pick up some AM DX? Any *real* DXer would.

Back in the 80s I'd agreed to be an Arbitron radio "rater," for lack
of a better term. I was given a little journal book to indicate what
radio stations I listened to in 1/4 hour segments over a 3 month
period.

About a week after submitting my duly-completed book back to Arbitron,
I got a phone call asking me if I thought is was some sort of joke and
what were my answers supposed to represent. Of course, except for a
couple of local newscasts, I never listened to the hideous crap that
masquerades as listenable content on Toronto's airwaves. I duly
pointed out that at no point in the instructions was I restricted to
local broadcast stations only.

My book was about 50% AM-band DX (mostly WCBS, WABC, KMOX, WTIC, WLW,
WJR, WHO, WGN, WRNO, WWVA, WBBM and WSM), a few Short Wave entries
from Deutch Welle, the BBC, Radio Moscow and Radio Canada
International, Weather Radio Canada on VHF, two 2m amateur repeaters
and the Metropolitan Toronto Police Force and Toronto Fire Department
radio systems.

Funny, but I was never asked to participate again for some strange
reason....

73 de Peter, W2IRT
(ex-AB2NZ, VE3THX)

Please reply to Double-you Two Eye Are Tee at Arrl.net

Funny, but I was never asked to participate again for some strange
reason....

73 de Peter, W2IRT


Hey Pete,

Don't feel slighted because Arbitron didn't send you anymore journals.
Around the same period, my family and I filled out our journals with
no unusual entries as you did, and we were never asked again to
participate.

So once your number comes up in their sample, you probably will not be
asked again, in this lifetime, to be part of their survey.


73 de Evan, KB2AMY

Funny, but I was never asked to participate again for some strange
reason....

73 de Peter, W2IRT


Hey Pete,

Don't feel slighted because Arbitron didn't send you anymore journals.
Around the same period, my family and I filled out our journals with
no unusual entries as you did, and we were never asked again to
participate.

So once your number comes up in their sample, you probably will not be
asked again, in this lifetime, to be part of their survey.


73 de Evan, KB2AMY

wrote in message
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On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 06:45:10 -0800, Bill Turner
wrote:

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 09:06:12 GMT, wrote:

Is there a newsgroup for AM radio dxing

God, I hope not......

73, Jim KH2D

________________________________________________ _________

Shame on you, Jim. :-)

Are you saying you never tuned your car radio while driving late at
night trying to pick up some AM DX? Any *real* DXer would.

--
Bill W6WRT

Oh, Ok. That kind of AM DXing. The SWL flavor. I though he meant put
the transmitter in the AM mode and werk sum Deeee-X.


Well heck, I've done that MANY MANY times.
But that was 40 - 50 years ago ;-)

--

... Hank

http://horedson.home.att.net
http://w0rli.home.att.net

wrote in message
.. .
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 06:45:10 -0800, Bill Turner
wrote:

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 09:06:12 GMT, wrote:

Is there a newsgroup for AM radio dxing

God, I hope not......

73, Jim KH2D

________________________________________________ _________

Shame on you, Jim. :-)

Are you saying you never tuned your car radio while driving late at
night trying to pick up some AM DX? Any *real* DXer would.

--
Bill W6WRT

Oh, Ok. That kind of AM DXing. The SWL flavor. I though he meant put
the transmitter in the AM mode and werk sum Deeee-X.


Well heck, I've done that MANY MANY times.
But that was 40 - 50 years ago ;-)

--

... Hank

http://horedson.home.att.net
http://w0rli.home.att.net