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KTD1735

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Re: Do you remember your first BC SW station heard? Or a memorable one?
« Reply #15 on: February 24, 2021, 04:45:58 PM »

... Personal favs included WABC and "Cousin Brucie" and "Murray the K" out of New York....tune still plays in my head, "77, W-A-B-Ceeeeeeeee!!!"  Fell asleep many a grade-school evening with the headphones on....

So, you want to go back in time to listen to WABC and Cousin Brucie again?

DONE! WABC and Brucie are both still around on Saturday Nights!  (see banner below)


The WABC 770-AM NY City station has an internet site at:
https://wabcradio.com/

Select the "Full Schedule" TAB; WABC for station and than go to "Saturday" for the
program listings.
https://wabcradio.com/show-schedule/

The show hours are 06:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDST - Eastern Time Zone.

It's broadcast over the airways via 770-AM radio or you can select the "Listen Live" button
at the bottom of the page to hear it via the Website page.

You're "older" now - is it as you remembered it?

Enjoy!
 

Thx so much.......can't wait to try it out this weekend!  Will advise.......(so cool....)
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N1IG

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Re: Do you remember your first BC SW station heard? Or a memorable one?
« Reply #16 on: May 15, 2021, 03:49:52 AM »

The BBC in the early 1970s, on my parent's Hallicrafters S-107.
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RENTON481

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Re: Do you remember your first BC SW station heard? Or a memorable one?
« Reply #17 on: May 24, 2021, 05:03:13 PM »

The first Shortwave station I ever heard was Radio RSA, Johannesburg, South Africa, and is was during the afternoon on the 25 meter band on an old tube RCA console radio -- the antenna was just 7-8 feet of antenna wire, strung up near the window. I remember the interval signal, too.
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W9WQA

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Re: Do you remember your first BC SW station heard? Or a memorable one?
« Reply #18 on: May 25, 2021, 07:53:43 AM »

hcjb, ?around 13/14 mhz
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SWMAN

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Re: Do you remember your first BC SW station heard? Or a memorable one?
« Reply #19 on: May 25, 2021, 12:43:27 PM »

It was Radio Moscow around 41 meters in about 1968. Cool stuff back them on my little Hallicrafters S 120 radio.
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W4KYR

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Re: Do you remember your first BC SW station heard? Or a memorable one?
« Reply #20 on: May 25, 2021, 01:51:14 PM »

 HCJB in 1970
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M0KED

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Re: Do you remember your first BC SW station heard? Or a memorable one?
« Reply #21 on: May 26, 2021, 05:28:31 AM »

Aged about 12, and tuning around on an unknown band marked  "SW" on my uncle's cheap Romanian transistor radio, I suddenly heard an English broadcast from Trans World Radio, Monaco....... that got me hooked and started a love of radio that's still as strong 47 years later! M0KED, Lincoln, U.K.
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N5PG

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Re: Do you remember your first BC SW station heard? Or a memorable one?
« Reply #22 on: June 20, 2021, 01:16:27 AM »

Early 1960s (in UK), other than the unavoidable Radio Moscow, Peking, Cairo etc all S9+, it was HCJB.

On MW it was all about the Pirate Stations playing pop music, Radio London, Caroline and others. The test of a transistor radio was how well it received these stations as well as Radio Luxembourg's English service after 7pm on 208mtr. Happy days.
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W7CXC

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Re: Do you remember your first BC SW station heard? Or a memorable one?
« Reply #23 on: January 02, 2022, 03:09:59 PM »

1955, on a Zenith Transoceanic, Radio Moscow and about the same time UN radio. not sure witch was first. Was 14.
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N8NK

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Re: Do you remember your first BC SW station heard? Or a memorable one?
« Reply #24 on: January 02, 2022, 05:22:08 PM »

hcjb on  ??. had the freq penciled on my desk for years. gone now

Yep, me too- in around 1972. HCJB is in Quito Ecuador. I also used to listen to the Larry Glick show all night on the AM broadcast band.. which was in Boston I think. I was 13 at the time.
Memories  :)
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KB1NO

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Re: Do you remember your first BC SW station heard? Or a memorable one?
« Reply #25 on: January 02, 2022, 07:57:16 PM »

SWL but initially long wave, not short.    I was fascinated by NSS CW at the very low end of the AM Broadcast band on our kitchen radio.
They used to send NSS NSS NSS followed by a repeated letter.   I think the letter was usually W.    I knew enough Morse Code from Boy Scouts to decode it.    Never did ;rstm what the "W" meant.    I wonder if any others remember this?
After that it was Radio Moscow and others on my S38E.     
Memories...
John, KB1NO

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KG4RUL

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Re: Do you remember your first BC SW station heard? Or a memorable one?
« Reply #26 on: January 03, 2022, 02:46:40 AM »

HCJB, "The Voice of the Andes"
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W9AC

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Re: Do you remember your first BC SW station heard? Or a memorable one?
« Reply #27 on: January 03, 2022, 05:42:41 AM »

1969, listening on my OM's Hallicrafters SX-100.  First stations heard: VOA, WNYW, HCJB, RSA, Radio Moscow. 

I recently purchased a Drake SW-4A receiver.  At the center of the front panel it reads: "Designed Especially for Radio New York Worldwide."  WNYW had a great programming mix. 

I also recall hearing a lot of jamming back in those days. 

Paul, W9AC
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K0RO

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Re: Do you remember your first BC SW station heard? Or a memorable one?
« Reply #28 on: January 03, 2022, 05:55:51 AM »

HCJB in the mid and late 50's and Radio Budapest during the Hungarian revolution in 1956
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W4FID

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Re: Do you remember your first BC SW station heard? Or a memorable one?
« Reply #29 on: January 03, 2022, 06:31:17 AM »

When I was about 12 my grandfather had a HeathKit AR-2 with a wire from the attic of his machine shed where it was on an old workbench out to a tree in his orchard. I was listening to news on the BBC and Radio Moscow. The announcers were talking about happenings in the US as if it was a foreign country. Fascinated me. Being a kid from the Great Lakes area I had never experienced any foreign influence in any way. Then a Boy Scout friend told me his dad had a radio he could talk on. One evening with him -- he had a Ranger and SX-100 -- and I was hooked. Been a ham with HF capabilities for 60+ years.
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