Posted on 09/01/2018 7:22:52 PM PDT by nanetteclaret
I was thrilled when I could get it sometimes in southern MO. I had one of those little round Panasonic radios on a chain. Still have it, in fact.
Moved to Belgium:
I was a school kid in the Chicago area back then. We could hear XERF regularly.
No. But that’s interesting, Both were Dallas stations.
Dick Biondi
On top of a pizza...
Listened to WLS at night in central Alabama during the ‘60s and 70s. It was the nighttime station in many areas since popular nearby stations signed off around sunset. Wolfman Jack, the Larry Lujack, and I think Dick Biondi was at WLS.
Long-distance radio propagation is mainly influenced by the ionosphere, which, in turn, is influenced by solar radiation and where the sun is in its sunspot cycle. Long distance radio is accomplished by reflecting off the ionosphere (a phenomenon called "skip"). Whether skip is possible depends on the radio frequency and the condition of the ionosphere.
The only trails which play a role in radio propagation are meteor trails (see Meteor Burst Communications). When a meteor (usually a tiny one, a shooting star) burns up in the atmosphere, it leaves behind a trail of ionized air, which reflects radio waves for a few seconds, creating a window during which distant stations can exchange digital messages.
As for chemtrails, if they did anything to radio propagation, it would be to improve it (like meteor trails), not inhibit it.
That clip is one of my faves! Everyone could dance, and they looked nice (not like they had just rolled out of bed and took a shower last week.).
They were so funny. We had a record they released with the best bits, so we got to hear them long after they stopped doing animal stories.
Howie Carr ping...
I lived in Birmingham, Alabama, and could pickup KMOX out of St
Louis, I would listen to the Blues hockey team
The call sign, WLS, stood for “World’s Largest Store”. The station was originally owned by Sears, Roebuck & Co.
Woah,Guam?!! I think that is the distance record!
I could hear it in Mexico at night :)
“Woah,Guam?!!”
Farther —— Hong Kong
I couldn’t hear it often and there was static but I could occasionally pick it up depending on the weather.
In WW2 people on the US West coast could pick up Tokyo Rose with ease.
AM radio waves will bounce off clouds and dense air in the high atmosphere and travel huge distances
Interesting! Missing Sears! :(
Detasseling corn? I haven’t heard that phrase in years.
Grew up in the Corn Belt. Although born in Chicago, I grew up on an Illinois farm two miles from the Indiana border.
Where were you detasseling?
Detasseling corn? I haven’t heard that phrase in years.
Grew up in the Corn Belt. Although born in Chicago, I grew up on an Illinois farm two miles from the Indiana border.
Where were you detasseling?
So, you made me google for Howie Carr deadpool, and look who comes up first!
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