[IRCA] Thanks for the answers to Off the wall Question.

Thanks to everyone for the answer, I had forgotten about the Police Band. My Firestone is just two years older than I. My grandparents had one just like it that I used to start DXing with many years ago. Who remembers "Stereo FM(AM)" ? When one channel was FM and the other was AM? That's it for

[IRCA] Re Off the wall question

I remember in the 60s hearing police at night in New Brunswick from somewhere in the eastern states on an old table radio which was tunable up to 1700.I wonder why these frequencies were used when the 136 -and up Mhz band was already in use for emergency and utility services.Was there some reaso

Re: [IRCA] Off the wall question

In the late 60's LAPD transmitter on 1730 could be heard in the San Francisco Bay Area at night. Signal was good, even on a transistor radio barefoot. During the 40's when on 1712, they got reports from the East Coast and a ship up near Alaska. Over the years power vary from 250 watts up to

Re: [IRCA] Off the wall question

Stan- That part of the BCB band was, as others have already tols you, for the police. I would set in Dallas and listen to the Los Angels police. Also in the 20's and the 30's it was used for the video signal for the flying spot scanner type of TV. The audio being broadcast on the stations nor

Re: [IRCA] Off the wall question

On my web site located at http://community-2.webtv.net/AM-DXer/ is a 1939 QSL card from WNYF which was the New York City fire department dispatch station that broadcast fire calls on 1630 kHz. Apparently the station was primarily used to talk to fire boats. The boats answered back on 35.6 MHz.

Re: [IRCA] Off the wall question

when I was first discovering radio in the early 1960's, a favourite pasttime for me was to listen to the ship-to-shore calls. They were handled by an operator and were generally to/from tugboats and cargo ships, to relatives on shore. This on my parents "stereo", which both received AM, AND playe

Re: [IRCA] Off the wall question

On 2010-04-23, at 8:00 PM, Stan wrote: > I was noticing the other day, my 1948 Firestone radio I keep in the workshop > goes up to 1700kc. The X band wasn't officially used until around 1993 if I'm > correct. > Why does it go that high in the 1st place? > Does anyone else know of some of the ol

Re: [IRCA] Off the wall question

Used to be a police band there. Jim - Original Message - From: "Stan" To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 10:00 PM Subject: [IRCA] Off the wall question I was noticing the other day, my 1948 Firestone radio I keep in the wor

Re: [IRCA] Off the wall question

On Apr 23, 2010, at 9:00 PM, Stan wrote: > I was noticing the other day, my 1948 Firestone radio I keep in the workshop > goes up to 1700kc. The X band wasn't officially used until around 1993 if I'm > correct. > Why does it go that high in the 1st place? It was a BCB/police radio. Back in t

[IRCA] Off the wall question

I was noticing the other day, my 1948 Firestone radio I keep in the workshop goes up to 1700kc. The X band wasn't officially used until around 1993 if I'm correct. Why does it go that high in the 1st place? Does anyone else know of some of the older tube, and transistor radios that go that high

[IRCA] WWV Solar Report

:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2010 Apr 24 0001 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 23 April follow. Solar flux 75 and mid-latitude A-index 11. The mid-latitude

[IRCA] Move of CIBQ-1340 Brooks AB to FM approved by CRTC

*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* The move of CIBQ-1340 Brooks AB to FM (105.7 MHz, 6 kW, 45.6 meters) has been approved by the CRTC. This will leave their sister station CKSQ-1400 Stettler AB at the only graveyarder left in Alberta. CIBQ can be heard fai

[IRCA] Move of CIBQ-1340 Brooks AB to FM approved by CRTC

The move of CIBQ-1340 Brooks AB to FM (105.7 MHz, 6 kW, 45.6 meters) has been approved by the CRTC. This will leave their sister station CKSQ-1400 Stettler AB at the only graveyarder left in Alberta. CIBQ can be heard fairly well daytime in Calgary but at night are usually lost to the graveya

[IRCA] less TP for 23 Apr

A duller morning, though HLAZ continues to hang in there. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): none reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling w/splash or noise): no