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[DX] KKOB:n kuulija
JP kuittaa, on LEM222 satoa, vastasi viimein tammikuun 2006 rapoon.
Wikipediassa oli mielenkiintoista historiaa:
The station was founded at the New Mexico College of Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts (now New Mexico State University) by Ralph Willis Goddard, and
began broadcasting tests in 1919 under the call letters 5XD. On April 5,
1922 the station began regular operation as KOB. New Mexico A&M sold the
station after Goddard was electrocuted while adjusting the transmitter on
December 31, 1928. In 1933 the station moved to Albuquerque, and were later
bought by the Albuquerque Journal.
In 1948, Tom Pepperday, owner and publisher of the Journal, signed on
KOB-TV, the first television station between the Mississippi River and the
West Coast. The stations passed to Time-Life in 1952 and to Hubbard
Broadcasting in 1957. Hubbard Broadcasting sold the radio stations in 1986.
In order to trade on the well-known KOB calls, the new owners simply added
an extra "K" to the radio station's call letters.
KOB was involved in a 38-year-long dispute with New York City station WABC
(originally WJZ) over the use of the 770 kHz frequency. KOB was moved there
from 1030 to make room for WBZ in Boston. While the Federal Communications
Commission had requested that WJZ install a directional antenna to allow the
stations to interoperate over large areas, the station refused to comply,
encroaching on the range KOB was intended to receive. Only after reaching
the U.S. Supreme Court was the issue settled, when the FCC assigned KOB to a
new license class. Interestingly KKOB and WABC are both owned by Citadel
since its purchase of ABC Radio was finalized in 2007.
73 JP
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Tällainen viesti oli yhdellä USA-listalla tänään:
"Got in the car headed for work this morning, turned on the radio and
the morning team at KKOB was in the middle of reading and discussing a
reception report from a Finnish DXer from somewhere north of Helsinki
who uses a NRD-535 and 1800 yards of wire.
Didn't catch the name of the DXer, though. Gee, I wonder who it could be?"
Kukahan oli kyseessä?
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