RE: 530 AM Frequency

[EM1 GITCHIER <RGITSCHIER@doyle.navy.mil>]

Funny you mentioned that, Garret. Recently on the National Radio Club
reflector, someone thought they heard them off frequency recently. My ship
was sailing past the Turks and Caicos at the time. I carefully checked my
tuning on my Radio Shack DX-398, which tunes the AM broadcast band in
increments as low as 1khz steps. They were on-frequency as of a week ago. I
did note one or two US AM stations off freq about the same time. I checked a
couple of days later offshore of Key West, FL and they were still on 530khz.
Others chimed in later on saying that in the past they spent a considerable
amount of time on 532khz. The past couple of years I've tuned in and they
seemed to be on-freq. 

Ron Gitschier
Jacksonville, FL

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Garrett Wollman [SMTP:wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu]
	[EM1 GITCHIER]  (Radio Vision Christiana 530khz Turks and Caicos
Islands, West Indies...) 
> This station was famously off-frequency for many years.  If you're
> actually hearing them on 530 even I suppose it means that they've
> fixed that.
> 
> Of course, there is another station on 530 which is commonly heard in
> the area (and no, I'm not referring to WPHG709): CIAO, licensed to
> Brampton, Ont.
> 
> -GAWollman