At 08:01 PM 10/10/2008, you wrote: >Yesterday, I was still having trouble believing that I'd heard KFQD in >Anchorage on the barefooted T615, right over the top of 50 kW KXL-750 in >nearby Portland, OR. Whilke I was at the local Library and firmly hooked to >the internet, I checked to see if the University of South Carolina even HAD a >hockey team (I'd heard them skating against somebody on what I was certain was >KFQD, hearing local Anchorage commercials, etc.). According to the South >Carolina web-site, they DO have an ice hockey team, but their season does not >start until 24 October. There was no indication of any earlier hockey games on >their schedule. I then checked the KFQD schedule on their website... an all >newstalk format and I looked at the U of Alaska, Anchorage for their hockey >season. KFQD showed the Beck show on at the time that I thought I'd heard >hockey from Anchorage and the University hockey team also had not started >their season. After mulling things over, I decided to take the KFQD logging >ou! tta my list for both the Unlimited and the Barefoot Classes... I had not recorded it and there was just NO evidence.... I must have imagined it. > >So, Thursday evening I made up a thorough hit list for Alaska and went to work >at 9:15PM local time. The Wellbrook Array, being able to swap directions, >made things fairly easy. I soon had evidence of a number of Alaskans on >frequencies shared with stations in the Pacific Northwest. As I clicked >through 750, THERE WAS A HOCKEY GAME, coming in quite loudly. I tested it >with the array.... Sure enough I could hear KXL to my Southeast and the hockey >seemed to be coming from the Northwest! I listened a few minutes and darned >if one of the teams wasn't that crazy buncha Southerners, the South Carolina >Gamecocks!!! Later, there were plenty of local Anchorage commercials, a name >of the Anchorage municipal area where the Pre-Season Tournament was taking >place, etc. The boys from South Carolina were well ahead, too.
Hi, John. Last night (and again tonight) I checked 750.....no Alaska for me, but instead CKJH, IDing as "CK 750". Both nights they had hockey games as well, incidentally. ......Walt _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
