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On Wed, 6 May 2009 10:26:25 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Yep, and Heathkit kits were a spin off. My older brother built a
Heathkit shortwave radio, then a Heathkit guitar amp! Man, we used to
stay up at night and listen to that shortwave radio, and to us kids
stuck in nowhere, NY, it was like listening to another world! Same
with when we'd get AM skip and listen to WWVA in Wheeling, WVa. It
seemed exotic to think we were listening to someone talking that was
that far away!
There were 3 or 4 of those 50KW clear channel stations we could work
in DC. I liked WLS out of Chicago (Dick Biondi)
WOWO from New York worked too.
WBZ in Boston was one of the original 50kw clear channel stations. I could
occasionally pick it up at night in Jupiter, FL a few years ago.

Dick Summer's Night Light Show (with Irving, the Venus Fly-Trap) caused
many sleepless nights back in the 60's.

http://www.wvnh.net/summer/dicksummer.htm

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Hunting for skip channels is a fun passtime! I still do it!


If you are serious about DXing AM band you really need a long wire
antenna and that becomes a lightning rod here.



I listened to XERF, the Mexican border blaster, for Wolfman Jack. I
vaguely remember one of the staff announcers claiming it had a lot more
than 50kw of broadcast power.

It was the only station we listened to at the near-weekly sandbar
parties on the "mighty" Kaw River.