My favorite limited time station was KXL, among those Pete Taylor mentions,
though I didn't listen to it during WSB's off hours ... it was a listenable
station daytimes in Corvallis, 85 miles south of Portland. I remember, too,
KFVD, which later became KPOP. When I was a kid in Corvallis, late at night
after KDKA signed off, KFVD would begin broadcasting Spade Cooley's western
swing band, live, from the Pier at Santa Monica. "Devil's Dream" was one of my
favorite fiddle tunes. In the '60s, KPOP's opportunity to broadcast at night
occurred only on Monday mornings, for KDKA was AN-6 ... but oddly enough, KPOP
would not broadcast on the first Mondays in January, April, July or October,
leaving about a three-hour window for ZCO in Tonga to be heard. I QSL'd ZCO,
back when the Pacific and Asia were on 10 khz separation, from Texas and I
heard them in Massachusetts the same night Gordon Nelson got his one-time shot
at that station.
KPPC-1240 did a DX test for the NRC in March of April 1956, and got QRM'd by
one of the three Chicago sharetimers plus XEBN in Cd. Delicias, which was on
the air that night only for a special festival. I QSL'd both KPPC and XEBN from
that DX session.
John Callarman, KA9SPA, Family Genealogist, Retired Newspaper Editor,
DX-oyente, Krum TX (AKA Qal R. Mann, Krumudgeon)
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