You're a lucky man, Larry. I wish I could get WABC 770 Kc here in
Dallas. Enjoy!
Rick
K5IZ
ne1s wrote:
Last Saturday nite I was down in the cellar shack, working on building
a PP 805 modulator deck for a 1930s open relay-rack transmitter I'm
restoring that, to the best of my knowledge, never had a modulator.
I tuned around 75M and 160M looking for some AM QSOs to monitor, but I
couldn't find any with signals good enough for comfortable listening
(which is a rare occurrence up here in the Northeast).
So I switched the old Meissner RCVR to the AM broadcast band, and
tuned across 770 Kc/s WABC - a talk radio station for the past 24
years, but before that the quintessential AM "contemporary" music
station. And what I heard was not talk radio, but a live show with a
real DJ/commentator spinning the old tunes! From what I gathered this
is a new show, and there were all kinds of folks calling in giving
their praise. And in one segment was a live Neil Sedaka (sp?) interview!
It was like being caught in a time warp. Some of my fondest childhood
memories are of hanging out in my grandfather's cellar in Chatham, NJ
building, fixing or otherwise diddling with some radio with WABC
cranking the tunes.
I now know how I'll be spending my Saturday nites for the foreseeable
future.
73,
-Larry/NE1S
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