[160m] Re: 160m digest, Vol 1 #35 - 1 msg

Sun, 18 Aug 2002 16:30:19 -0500

Hi from Iowa!

    It seems like an olde watch frequency quite universally used was
2182 Kc., as they were know in them there days of olde!  I'll look
around. I have some radio texts from that general period of time.!

73,

Doc.

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>    1. So. Fla. 2 MHz info needed (claypots)
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> From: "claypots" <[email protected]>
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> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 08:56:02 -0400
> Subject: [160m] So. Fla. 2 MHz info needed
>
> Hi everyone,
> I am attempting to locate any information on the old 2 MHz
> Public Coastal stations that existed in the South Florida
> area back in the 1960's and 1970's.
>
> These stations were the prime method of communications for
> vessels out to 300 miles offshore in the days prior to the
> establishment of the current VHF-FM Marine band (156-157 and
> 161-162 MHz) in the mid 1970's.
>
> The stations I remember listening to the most were:
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>  WDR (Miami)
>  WDR-2 (Miami)
>  Nassau Radio
>  the US Coast Guard
>
> ...There were several others on-the-air in that period.
>
> Growing up in Miami, I had gotten interested in radio in the
> mid-1960's and had modified an old tube-type AM Broadcast
> radio to listen to the 160-meter amateur band, only to
> discover there was a marine band just above it!
>
> The modified radio would receive 1700 to 2780 kHz.  Since
> all communications in those days were in the AM "phone"
> mode, on both the marine and ham bands, it was all great fun
> for a nine-year-old kid.  (...Santiago "Sandy" Arroyo,
> WA4KSD was my Elmer.)
>
> I am looking for old frequency information, photographs,
> memorabilia, etc. which could be
> photographed/scanned/photocopied.  I am interested in
> hearing from anyone who might have been employed for these
> stations.
>
> If you are in Florida, and have an old 2 MHz AM marine radio
> in a corner somewhere, look and see what frequencies were in
> it.  I would be interested in knowing.
>
> All information will be greatly appreciated.
>
> 73,
> Mark Cobbeldick   KB4CVN / C6AMC
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