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

[George H]

Accessing the WTOP News link - via Microsoft's Internet Exploder - has
been disabled via the office network I use.  It's a DoD network, so
the cyber threat is taken seriously by folks in the DoD IT
infrastructure.

On 5/8/13, Doug Kitchener <oldsdoug at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is WFED still out of the Wheaton site Ed?
>
> List - Sorry if I added to any confusion!  ("I'm from IT, I'm here to help
> you!")
>
> :)
>
> DK
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Ed Tobias <edtobias at comcast.net>
>> To: Doug Kitchener <oldsdoug at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 11:58 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Confirmation - RE:  message from the folks in IT
>>
>> When WTOP moved from 1500 to 103.5 the 1500 frequency became WFED, Federal
>> News
>> Radio.  It's still 50kw and at night its pattern is changed to North-South
>>
>> directional, protecting KSTP in Minneapolis/St. Paul.  WFED and WTOP are
>> co-owned by Hubbard Broadcasting.
>>
>> Ed (I worked at WTOP for a couple of years in the late 1970s)
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Doug Kitchener
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 11:25 AM
>> To: Rick Hansen ; Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Confirmation - RE: message from the folks in IT
>>
>> 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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