November 11, 2006
Wednesday, Novemver 29, 2006, 1430, 1700. One of the new Howard County TIS services is sending out a reasonable signal into north-central Montgomery County. WQMV923 noted here with call letters and ID “Howard County Government AM 1700″ and a tape loop of emergency preparedness PSAs. The station’s putting out a fair to good signal from [...]
November 11, 2006
Fron the outstanding dcrtv.com: Bethesda Boost For WGMS – 11/28 – DCRTV hears that the Federal Communications Commission has approved a 25-watt Bethesda repeater for WGMS on 104.1 FM. “Starting this morning, Bethesda has its own licensed classical music station,” says an area radio source. “It should make for a much stronger WGMS all around [...]
November 11, 2006
Saturday, November 25, 2006, 2245, 6925 usb. SSTV in progress, unable to decode because we were traveling with just a Grundig YB-400PE. Northwoods Radio with some interesting music; bluegrass and Irish themed music and some other nice songs from hard-to-classify genres. Strong and clean signal; took less than a minute to tune in dead-on in [...]
November 11, 2006
Thursday, November 23, 2006, 2239, 6925 usb. Lovesick gobbler call. Old Turkey Radio with a nice signal. ID at 2246. Contact address given as oldturkeyradio at yahoo dot com. Faux Joan Jett Turkey song “I love butterballs.” Monty Python chirstmas call-in at 2250. SIO 555 s9.
November 11, 2006
Thursday, November 23, 2006, 2110, 6925 usb. Some odd sounds and tones, as if someone’s testing their rig. Garbled music at 2113. Doobie Brothers “Listen to the music” all fooked up as the op tunes. More garbled sounds at 2116. Music at 2118, Paul Simon “Codachrome” at 6925.20 variable. Captain Morgan ID at 2120! Now [...]
November 11, 2006
Thursday, November 23, 2006, 2010, 6925 usb. Music. ID and Thanksgiving greetings from Captain Ron. “Afternoon edition.. second part” and acknowledging earlier posts on the FRN. More head bangin’ metal music at 2017. ID again at 2022. Live broadcast, e-mail captainron6955 at hotmail.com. Some kind words for the FRW and FRN. More music at 2027. [...]
November 11, 2006
Thursday, November 23, 2006, 1844, 6925 usb. SSTV in Scottie DX mode. Rude picture of Al Fansome. 1850. WTPR “We’re Tire Pressure Radio” 1855. Appears to be an anti-Commander Bunny image. Bunny QSL picture with universal “no” circle? Very weak reception on this one. 1859. Monkey profiles. Chris Smolinski with his pal Al Fansome as [...]
November 11, 2006
Thursday, November 23, 2006, 1712, 6925 usb. SSTV transmission caught in progress. There was one earlier but I couldn’t get MMSSTV fired up in time. Twilight Zone-themed program immediately followed. “Even though you’ve been warned, enjoy your flat tires.” at 1729. Off at 1730.
November 11, 2006
Today at 2200 we were surprised to hear a repeat of our 365-8870 show from September 23 on WBCQ 7415. Tuesdays at 5PM eastern time is an available time slot on 7415, and the way east coast propagation has been treating the later hours these days, this is prime time. SIO 544 here with some [...]
November 11, 2006
Sunday, November 19, 2006, 2331, 3275. The Crystal Ship with music. Co-channel interference bothers a reasonable signal. Zeroed in on 3275.54. SIO 312. Nothing on //6875.
