[ARC5] BC sets and others.

[D C _Mac_ Macdonald]

KOMA (at 1520) in OKC is now KOKC and has talk and some sports.  The music of "old" KOMA is now on KOMA-FM at 92.5.

 
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* 73 - Mac, K2GKK/5 * 
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> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 09:00:16 -0500
> From: scr287 at att.net
> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] BC sets and others.
> 
> On 1/21/2014 7:05 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> > On 21 Jan 2014 at 15:49, Geoff wrote:
> >
> >> If you want a good compact BC set get a post WW2 to about 56 auto
> >> radio with PP audio; 6 or 12V.
> 
> > Yes. When I still lived in Missoula, Montana, at least 35 years ago, I would
> > go to my favorite junk yard, buy nice-looking auto radios, and build them into
> 
> My bedside radio in high school was from a 1952 Ford. 60 foot longwire
> just stuck into the antenna jack. 12" speaker from an old TV set.
> 
> Living in a small town in central Nevada, KRLA (Los Angeles) would
> boom in every morning. I would turn the radio on before sunrise, and 
> listen to the farm reports from an Iowa station until sunrise, when KRLA
> went to daytime power, and took over the frequency.
> 
> At night, KOMA from Oklahoma was a regular, along with KFWB
> (when they were a rocker), and a host of other stations.
> 
> Nowadays, the AM band is just no fun.
> 
> Jack Antonio WA7DIA/4