[IRCA] October 17, 1989 audio from KGO San Francisco

2016-02-11 Thread R. Colin Newell
I thought everyone could use a break from 1500 kHz with a walk down memory lane - I have not listened to this audio in over 25 years - and it was taken off air moments after the Earthquake and the day after. I have over an hour of Amateur radio band traffic and live KGO stuff within minutes of

Re: [IRCA] October 17, 1989 audio from KGO San Francisco

2016-02-11 Thread Pete Taylor
Colin, Thanks for including this in your post. We were there when it happened, looking down on the fire in the Marina but not really grasping what was happening to the homes situated on the gelatinous surface. With no AC, we watched what was going on using our 8” battery operated b TV set. I

Re: [IRCA] October 17, 1989 audio from KGO San Francisco

2016-02-11 Thread coffee_canuck
Excellent question - the VHF links stayed up and were being recorded at the station - for rebroadcast later. I have around 1 hour of live ham traffic on 20, 40 and 80 meters. If memory serves me correctly, they were off for all of or part of 1 evening. Content from KGO-TV 7 was being carried on