RE: Back From DX'ing on PEI

[Roger Kirk <rkirk@mail1.videoserver.com>]

Dan Strassberg wrote:[
At 09:56 PM 7/16/97 +0000, you wrote:
>
>>I also received (clearly) a Spanish AM'er (forgot to log frequency, but   
    

>>think it's somewhere around 720) running  what seemed to be a   
>syndicated
>>Spanish Music Show - the only word that was repeated (ad nauseum) was   
    

>>"GALAXIE".  Music was intro'd and backsold by a "Big Voice Guy".   
 Breaks
>>were typical small-town radio i.e. lots of local spots of varying
>>quality/distortion and the board op/announcer was "green" and unsure.   
    

>> Couldn't make out call letters.  Anybody know anything about   
"GALAXIE"?
>>
>You sure it was _7_20? CHTN in Charlottown is on 720 (10 kW-D, 7.5 kW-N
>DA-N). Seems quite unlikely that there's sufficient Spanish-speaking
>population on PEI to support a local SS station. Could you possibly have
>been tuned to _6_20? WXLX in Newark NJ might have gotten up that far.   
>It's
>only 5 kW, but it's strongly directional to the east.

>I suppose it could have been a Cuban. But with commercials?

I know I said "near 720", but I actually meant the lower end of the dial   
one side or the other of 720.  Sorry for the confusion.  If it's NJ, I   
may be able to get it on the coast in NH - I'll try.

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