[Scan-DC] Confirmation - RE: message from the folks in IT

[Doug Kitchener]

Xmitter is still there, but apparently the station that uses it is no longer called WTOP but something else... or maybe the power has been cut back - something, I forget.  I looked into this awhile back when I saw something on a Baltimore station's web site about it being "Maryland's only 50KW station" or something.  I gotta get ready to go to work, will have to look that back up if I get a chance.  I grew up not far from there (near Holy Cross Hosp) and WTOP was the first radio station I ever listened to, on one of those "Rocket Radio" germanium xtal things!  Exchanged a bunch of emails not long ago with a guy named Lee Shepherd who was a DJ there back then... we need to kick all this around at the next scan-dc get-together!

DK




----- Original Message -----
> From: Rick Hansen <Rick.Hansen at apsglobal.com>
> To: 'Doug Kitchener' <oldsdoug at yahoo.com>; Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> Cc: 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 11:17 AM
> Subject: RE: [Scan-DC] Confirmation - RE:  message from the folks in IT
> 
> Back to the scanning aspect, when WTOP had a 50,000 watt transmitter in
> Wheaton (is it still there?) the signal would get picked up by telephones in
> the area. I spend a day at a friend's house putting bypass capacitors on the
> telephone jacks. My fillings never picked it up, but some people claimed it
> would play in their head when they drove by on University Boulevard. Ah, for
> the days of dental fillings using mercury...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Doug Kitchener
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 11:01 AM
> To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Confirmation - RE: message from the folks in IT
> 
> eww... if I listen to WTOP in the car, will it screw up the radio and take
> over the engine control module?
> 
> What about the Pepco smart meters and the steel plate in my head?
> 
> :)
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: Rick Hansen <Rick.Hansen at apsglobal.com>
>> 
>>  For now, get your traffic info from www.sigalert.com.
> 
>> 
>>  May we listen *and* browse well 'n often,
>> 
>>  R.
>> 
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