[Scan-DC] [OT] My iPod is connected to ECC?

[OldsDoug -]

I thought it was a crime to let the KGC-334 callsign expire after all those years... I started listening to them in about 1964 and they had it then... man, all those memories and all those dispatchers:  White, Ward, Hobbs, Harding, Best, Stoltz, Mann, Nicholson, Sturdevant, Gaddis (fortunately still with us!) and their "signatures" as they did the station ID and time announcements (all the idiots at PG say "KGA-36 Anna One", contrary to FCC regulations...) - I met most of them when the ECC was in the old "bomb shelter" in the basement of what was then the County Office Building (now the council building).  The Motorola duo-tones and the Saturday-at-noon tone tests, some of the memorable calls they put out (there's a tape floating around of the "911 call" {it was actually 424-3111, no area code!} and radio comms when the Laytonsville firehouse burned...)  Hearing those guys every day, it was like they were your friends.

(Same goes for broadcast radio - Ed, want to talk about that again?  I know you worked with Eddie Gallagher)  :)

1030, KGC-33............4!

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> From: lloydde at verizon.net
> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:02:02 -0400
> To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Scan-DC] [OT] My iPod is connected to ECC?
>
> It must be something in the air, as there have been lots of weird coincidences have been popping up around me recently...I had to share this with someone! Last night, I was driving home listening to my old iPod (no internet connection like the new ones today). It was on a random shuffle of several thousand songs, mostly music with a few classic radio transmissions thrown in for good measure.
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> I am not making this up.. I swear! At 9pm, one song finishes and the next song loads. The freaky part is that out of all the music, my iPod chose by itself an old Montgomery County Fire MP3 with "All area hospitals are open, 2100 hours, KGC334." Yeah. Really. I did a double take just to make sure. Cool. Maybe I should have stopped and gotten a lottery ticket?
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> It made me realize how much I miss those station ids every 30 minutes with the great voices of ECC.
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> Hold me 10-7 for the remainder (oh yeah...it's supposed to be plain speak now!)
>
> David
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