On Mar 31, 6:11 pm, "Mark F." wrote:
That's what I remember. Could be wrong.
It was 1970 in Flint Michigan, I was 10.
If I remember correctly it was a BBC broadcast form that area. Then again it
could have been from somewhere else.

It was probably the Antigua relay. Antigua was mothballed a couple
years ago because diesel to run the generators had become too
expensive. There are so many island nations in the Caribbean that most
people mix and match them mentally all the time. If people think of
the Caribbean at all, they think of Cuba and Haiti, which are in the
news all the time because they're so troubled and in Cuba's case
constantly poking the US. Puerto Rico and Jamaica may get some name
recognition, along with Aruba. (Most people don't know that Puerto
Rico is part of the US, including 1992 presidential dark horse
candidate Ross Perot.)

Beyond that people are on shaky ground. The Bahamas has been in the
news lately because of Anna Nicole Smith. When people talk about the
ultra rich having private islands in the Caribbean, they're
unknowingly referring to the Bahamas chain. Most people don't know
that the average Bahamian is black, because all they hear about are
rich Americans who own mansions there. So don't feel bad.


"dxAce" wrote in message

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"Mark F." wrote:

My dad had an 1955 big old Grundig AM/FM/SW and it was great to listen to
a
night.
We would listen to jazz from Denmark and Classical from the Bahaman's.
All I here now is that I am a sinner and am going strait to HELL. Well I
guess someone has to go there.

Bahamas on shortwave, with a 1955 Grundig?

dxAce
Michigan
USA