[CW] KLB in Seattle

[n7dc at comcast.net]

Many of the three letter stations have gone away.  They were clear channel stations with high power transmitters, and could be heard almost coast to coast.  Much like KSL Salt Lake city and a few others today, still can be heard.  But many small cities and town wanted radio stations, and there was just so much AM frequency spectrum.  As more and more of this spectrum was used, some of these stations had to give up their clear channel designation (cut back on power, so the frequencies could be shared with other smaller stations).  I have moved too much, and lost some of my books and paperwork on these stations and memory has become as short as my....ears. So, no longer remember what the call signs were. I remember KOB, I think, but others have gone out of sight, out of mind.   I worked temporarily at KCAN , Canyon, Texas, Listened to KPAN, Pampa, Texas, KGNC Amarillo, Texas, and several others in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, and listened to several clear channel stations, around the country, until I left there in the late 1950s. 

 FYI I was a short-wave listener in the 40s and 50s, and belonged to the "International Short Wave Listeners" group, and had well over 120 or so countries confirmed by QSL cards, from commercial and military broadcast stations. I was number two in that organizations countries list.   I got the ham itch, and essentially stopped listening, and started talking with the 340 countries I now have confirmed. I still tool around the SWBC bands now and then but things have really changed, and many of them no longer exist.    

N7DC at ARRL.NET
Ex WN5QMX,WA5UKR,ET2US,ET3USA,SV0WPP,VS6DD,N7DC/YV5/G5CTB
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> On February 14, 2019 at 7:41 PM Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>     I used to hear KLB in Los Angeles, very strong. Its listed on 
> the Maritime Historical Society list of coast stations but no 
> clue as to who owned it. Someone must know.
>     I am also curious about both KLB and KLC as well as WLO. 
> These stations do not appear on pre-1945 lists of stations so I 
> wonder when they were put on the air. There were other stations 
> in Seattle and vicinity and in Galveston so I wonder if perhaps 
> those stations went CL and others took their places.
> -- 
> Richard Knoppow
> 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
> WB6KBL
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