Re: war coverage pre-empting Bruins

["Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
To: "Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: war coverage pre-empting Bruins


> Amazing what you can do with a good communications receiver and a suitable
> antenna--a highly directional antenna would be desirable. When I was an
> undergraduate at RPI in Troy, N Y in the early 1950s, the Rural Radio
> Network in central and western New York was fed, via station-to-station
> off-the-air relay from a direct off-the-air pickup of WQXR-FM by WFLY at
its
> Tx in the Helderbergs southwest of Albany. Back then, full class Bs were
> only 20,000W at 500'. (WQXR-FM must have been running less than 3 kW from
> the Empire State Building.)

OK.  I will defer to your vastly superior knowledge on these subjects that
it might be theoretically possible, but there seems to be a lot more noise
on the AM dial today than there was when I was a kid in the 1970s.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine