Path: utzoo!utgpu!ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca!CUVMA!SWL-L Date: Fri, 2 Feb 90 00:49:17 EST Reply-To: Richard Crisp Sender: Short Wave Listener's List Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was From: Richard Crisp Subject: Re: San Francisco Bay Area SWL X-To: swl-l@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: UofToronto LAN redistribution Message-ID: <90Feb2.170030est.58646@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Newsgroups: bitnet.swl-l Distribution: ut Approved: devnull@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu In article <239@millbrook.fibercom.COM> lrj@fibercom.COM (Larry Johnson) writes: >BUT... I'd get up at 5:00AM every morning, and not just from the jet >lag. The dark-path reception to Asia was something I--as an East- >Coaster--could not have imagined. AFRTS Tokyo, 10kW, on 75 m. Kuching, >Malaysia and Singapore (tentative) on 60m. Taipei's "domestic" service >to the mainland (not via WYFR), heavily jammed, on 6087 kHz. Peking's >(the BBC and I still call it that, I consider it enough of a concession >not to call it Peiping :-)) domestic services, and "domestic" services >to Taiwan, just about every everywhere below 10 MHz. The international >services, such as Korea (North and South) were so easy to hear as to be >hardly worth mentioning. > >As the sun came up, these frequencies would deteriorated rapidly, of >course, but even at 9:00 AM, I could receive Peking's domestic service >on 7504 kHz for a Chinese friend while standing in the office parking >lot and using only the 2010's built-in whip. > Gee 5 am.... too early for a hard core night owl like me! Well I certainly appreciate finding out about the world of early morning SWL'ing in the Bay area. I guess I'll have to shift my schedule in order to carry on my old hobby out here (I've been out here 6 months, I've not really SWL'd any in at least 7 years or so until last month). -- Just the facts Ma'am