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

[Ed Tobias]

Interesting you should mention "anna One," Doug.  Back when I was in 
college, and living as a bunker at the Ithaca, NY FD, the FCC cited the 
department for identifying KEE574 as "K-double-E, 574."

As for Eddie Gallaher and the whole gang at WASH in the mid to late 1970s 
all I can say, as Eddie always did, "it's nice to know so many nice people."


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "OldsDoug -" <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>
To: <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2012 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] [OT] My iPod is connected to ECC?



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.
>
> 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?
>
> It made me realize how much I miss those station ids every 30 minutes with 
> the great voices of ECC.
>
> Hold me 10-7 for the remainder (oh yeah...it's supposed to be plain speak 
> now!)
>
> David
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