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On Wed, 6 May 2009 07:18:29 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On May 6, 10:01 am, Richard Casady
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On Tue, 5 May 2009 18:01:38 -0700 (PDT),

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I am a bit younger but the first time I ever did a repair was taking
apart a tube CB radio and bringing the tubes to radio shack where they
had a tester.. It was a big box about the size of a video game.. You
plugged in the tube and hit the button.. I think I was about 8-10 at
the time.

When I was a kid there was a tube tester at the drug store. Radio
Shack sold to radio amateurs mostly, and it was downtown. Everything
was downtown there were no malls.

Casady

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

Eisboch

On May 6, 11:47*am, "Eisboch" wrote:
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On Wed, 6 May 2009 07:18:29 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On May 6, 10:01 am, Richard Casady
wrote:
On Tue, 5 May 2009 18:01:38 -0700 (PDT),

wrote:
I am a bit younger but the first time I ever did a repair was taking
apart a tube CB radio and bringing the tubes to radio shack where they
had a tester.. It was a big box about the size of a video game.. You
plugged in the tube and hit the button.. I think I was about 8-10 at
the time.

When I was a kid there was a tube tester at the drug store. Radio
Shack sold to radio amateurs mostly, and it was downtown. Everything
was downtown there were no malls.

Casady

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

Eisboch- Hide quoted text -

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

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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

Eisboch- Hide quoted text -

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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.

"HK" wrote in message
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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.


It's still listed as being 250,000 watts. Max allowed in the USA is 50k
watts.
But, depending on the frequency used, 50K may carry much further than a
million watts, especially on "clear" channel frequencies where there are no
other stations anywhere legally transmitting on the same freq.

Eisboch

On May 6, 2:44*pm, wrote:
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

Eisboch- Hide quoted text -

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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.- Hide quoted text -

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My brother lives on top of a mountain in western NY, and he made a
ground plane antenna that did really well.