I recall in the early 1960s my parents shopped at Paine Field AFB in south Everett WA. This AFB field is now a civilian operation and Boeing Aviation moved into the rest. I recall in the early 1960s, probably in the winter DX season, you could on a car radio at Paine AFB hear beacon 'OX' from Comox, BC Canada just below the official AM band lower limit. Above the band, on 1630 kHz, was 'Bull Harbor Radio', an AM coastal radio station from BC Canada. You could hear it in Seattle on any competent radio receiver. I am wondering right now if it was a Canada coast guard station because i don't recall hearing ship , shore phone traffic. When there were still a lot of disused AM boat radios around, you used to occasionally see one with a transmit rock for 1630 in it, which meant the vessel traveled up to BC.

I recall some Navy ship trying to set up a phone call on the still in use AM medium wave channel, now disallowed for good old AM, but their SSB just did not work. I think this was the limited period where there was an "AM equivalent" suppressed sideband mode allowed. I also did the 10:00 wx on 2522 kHz a time or two, and i suffered "mic fright", altho i realize now that no one listening gave a sh@t what you sounded like, IF they were even listening.

About this time it seemed good ole Western Electric standards started going to hell. I recall Olympia marine channel 28 VHF was out of service for weeks because some tech had forgotten to close the transmitter access door.

a woman op. BUT the marine op that afternoon on Olympia 28 happened to be one H. Miller and he just could not hear you, even if you had a transmitter with VOA's power.