On Mar 19, 3:40*am, "Brenda Ann"
wrote:
"notbob" wrote in message

...

On 2010-03-18, Joe from Kokomo wrote:

1) Strictly speaking, you are correct. It isn't "shortwave".

2) However, from a reality viewpoint, many do post their MW catches here.

So, catching, say, KGO in San Francisco while living in Northern Oregon
would be considered a valid connection for a DXer?

I'm embarrassingly new at this and am trying to learn the ins and
outs. *I've made the above connection before, but didn't realize it
was any big deal, KGO broadcasting at 50KW. *I wasn't trying to score
a long catch, jes hear a radio station I was very familiar with.

nb

KGO from northern OR isn't much of a catch. Anything past about an hour or
so past sundown and you can hear them on a crystal set (much easier on even
a pocket radio). *Ditto for KFI, KFBK, KSL, KBOI, ad inf.

Strictly speaking medium wave listening isn't Shortwave. I recall
snaking a little plastic transister radio into bed when I was about
eight years old and listening to the Jean Sheperd radio show late in
the PM with the radio under the pillow.
I was in Philadelphia and i heard WKBW from Buffalo NY. What that was
something! I still listen to the radio but it is shortwave radio and
I hear the radio signals from thousands of miles away and I don't
have to sneak the radio into the sack.just wear a headphone so I don't
keep my wife awake with the noise.

Excelsior you Fathead!
(Shep Lives)

On Mar 19, 6:39*am, Mike Mc Manus wrote:
On Mar 19, 3:40*am, "Brenda Ann"
wrote:





"notbob" wrote in message

...

On 2010-03-18, Joe from Kokomo wrote:

1) Strictly speaking, you are correct. It isn't "shortwave".

2) However, from a reality viewpoint, many do post their MW catches here.

So, catching, say, KGO in San Francisco while living in Northern Oregon
would be considered a valid connection for a DXer?

I'm embarrassingly new at this and am trying to learn the ins and
outs. *I've made the above connection before, but didn't realize it
was any big deal, KGO broadcasting at 50KW. *I wasn't trying to score
a long catch, jes hear a radio station I was very familiar with.

nb

KGO from northern OR isn't much of a catch. Anything past about an hour or
so past sundown and you can hear them on a crystal set (much easier on even
a pocket radio). *Ditto for KFI, KFBK, KSL, KBOI, ad inf.

Strictly speaking medium wave listening isn't Shortwave. *I recall
snaking a little plastic transister radio into bed when I was about
eight years old and listening to the Jean Sheperd radio show late in
the PM with the radio under the pillow.
I was in Philadelphia and i heard WKBW from Buffalo NY. *What that was
something! *I still listen to the radio but it is shortwave radio and
I hear the radio signals from thousands of miles away *and I don't
have to sneak the radio into the sack.just wear a headphone so I don't
keep my wife awake with the noise.- Hide quoted text -

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NB1R wrote:
Excelsior you Fathead! (Shep Lives)

The Great Orpheum Gravy Boat Riot

Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss

Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories

Ludlow Kissel and the Dago Bomb That Struck Back

Classics, one and all.

Jean Shepherd, K2ORS, R.I.P.

Excelsior!!!

On 2010-03-19, Joe from Kokomo wrote:
NB1R wrote:
Excelsior you Fathead! (Shep Lives)

The Great Orpheum Gravy Boat Riot

Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss

Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories

Ludlow Kissel and the Dago Bomb That Struck Back

Classics, one and all.

Jean Shepherd, K2ORS, R.I.P.

Excelsior!!!

My first exposure to Jean, a true visionary, was Mad Magazine. It can
still be found on the web:

http://www.keyflux.com/shep/madtxt.htm

Later, I discovered his hilarious short stories in Playboy --yes! I
really did read the articles (sometimes . Playboy ran many of them
over the years. Later, I got his books from my library. Wish he'd
been syndicated, as I never heard his radio show. I also was unaware
he was an avid ham.

Was the "....Dago Bomb That Struck Back" about the runaway fireworks
on the 4th of July? It's been a long time.

nb

On 2010-03-19, notbob wrote:

My first exposure to Jean, a true visionary, was Mad Magazine. It can
still be found on the web:

http://www.keyflux.com/shep/madtxt.htm

oops!.....

http://www.keyflux.com/shep/mad1.htm

On 2010-03-19, Joe from Kokomo wrote:
NB1R wrote:
Excelsior you Fathead! (Shep Lives)
The Great Orpheum Gravy Boat Riot

Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss

Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories

Ludlow Kissel and the Dago Bomb That Struck Back

Classics, one and all.

Jean Shepherd, K2ORS, R.I.P.

Excelsior!!!

notbob wrote:

My first exposure to Jean, a true visionary, was Mad Magazine. It can
still be found on the web:

http://www.keyflux.com/shep/madtxt.htm

Later, I discovered his hilarious short stories in Playboy --yes! I
really did read the articles (sometimes . Playboy ran many of them
over the years. Later, I got his books from my library. Wish he'd
been syndicated, as I never heard his radio show. I also was unaware
he was an avid ham.

Was the "....Dago Bomb That Struck Back" about the runaway fireworks
on the 4th of July?

Yes

I read some of those Mad comic books when I was a kidddddddd,,,,,,,
cuhulin