Re: [IRCA] Old timers question abour 1180

2006-10-18 Thread willis
My memories of that time period, are that the big jammer and spy station was Radio Swan on 1160. This was said to be a CIA station on Swan Island with studios in Miami, FL. Is it possible that it's the same people running Radio Marti, but just under a different name? I do have a QSL card for

Re: [IRCA] Old timers question abour 1180

2006-10-18 Thread Russ Edmunds
--- Jim Pogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nothing in the 1962 or 1963 issues. 1966 issue lists Marathon, Florida (50 kW - 1180 kc) and Sugarloaf, Florida (50 kW - 1040 kc). Sorry I don't have the '64 and '65 issues to confirm when these stations first showed up in print. Hope this

Re: [IRCA] Old timers question abour 1180

2006-10-18 Thread Scott Fybush
Jim Pogue wrote: Nothing in the 1962 or 1963 issues. 1966 issue lists Marathon, Florida (50 kW - 1180 kc) and Sugarloaf, Florida (50 kW - 1040 kc). Sorry I don't have the '64 and '65 issues to confirm when these stations first showed up in print. Hope this helps. I don't have a '65,

Re: [IRCA] Old timers question abour 1180

2006-10-18 Thread Bill Whitacre
Thanks all. If got 'hold of George Jacobs yesterday. He was involved in both the original 1180 selection for VOA Marathon and the 'Marti-izing' of the site in '85. He relayed that work began on VOA Marathon in 1962, after the 'Cuban missle crisis.' So that it was on-air in '64 is about

Re: [IRCA] Old timers question abour 1180

2006-10-18 Thread Russ Edmunds
--- Bill Whitacre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recall visiting the site in '84 or so and it looked like something 'temporary' that was made permanent later on. We have other relay stations like that in VOA's network. *** A batch of us visited from the 1972 Coral Gables NRC convention.

Re: [IRCA] Old timers question abour 1180

2006-10-18 Thread robert Pietsch
Russ - Checking back in my logbooks, I first heard 1040 on 01/12/64 and 1180 on 11/24/62. Bob Pietsch Rocklin CA Russ Edmunds wrote: --- Scott Fybush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Pogue wrote: Nothing in the 1962 or 1963 issues. 1966 issue lists Marathon, Florida (50 kW - 1180 kc)

[IRCA] Old timers question abour 1180

2006-10-17 Thread Bill Whitacre
My colleagues at Radio Marti like to think that jamming began with them! Can someone pls remind me when VOA started using 1180 in Marathon Key, FL? Was it co-channeled by the Cubans prior to Marti? Thanks. bw --- Bill Whitacre [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [IRCA] Old timers question abour 1180

2006-10-17 Thread Russ Edmunds
--- Bill Whitacre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My colleagues at Radio Marti like to think that jamming began with them! Can someone pls remind me when VOA started using 1180 in Marathon Key, FL? Was it co-channeled by the Cubans prior to Marti? Thanks. VOA was operating on 1180

Re: [IRCA] Old timers question abour 1180

2006-10-17 Thread Jim Pogue
list for the International Radio Club of America Subject: Re: [IRCA] Old timers question abour 1180 --- Bill Whitacre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My colleagues at Radio Marti like to think that jamming began with them! Can someone pls remind me when VOA started using 1180 in Marathon Key, FL

Re: [IRCA] Old timers question abour 1180

2006-10-17 Thread Russ Edmunds
--- Jim Pogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have copies of '62, '63 and '66 WRTH - is there something I can look up? If you could, try to see in which issue each of the following showed up - VOA Marathon Key, FL - 1180 VOA Tortugas ( or alternatively Dry Tortugas Key, FL - 1040. Russ

Re: [IRCA] Old timers question abour 1180

2006-10-17 Thread Jim Pogue
, ICF-2010 Wellbrook LA5030 loop -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Russ Edmunds Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 5:56 PM To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America Subject: Re: [IRCA] Old timers question abour 1180 --- Jim