Pattern Change songs

[Scott Fybush]

At 05:43 PM 7/11/2004 -0400, A. Joseph Ross wrote:
>On 10 Jul 2004 at 21:37, Scott Fybush wrote:
>
> > Not "pattern change" so much as "frequency change" - but do any of you
> > remember the late, much lamented KUSW Worldwide? It was a valiant, doomed
> > attempt at a commercial shortwave rock'n'roll station from Salt Lake City
> > back in the late 80s - and when it came time for them to do the
> > several-times-daily frequency shift, they'd start playing the long
> > instrumental break from Dire Straits' "Telegraph Road." A minute or so in,
> > it would disappear, and you'd tune up or down, as the case may be, until
> > they popped up again a few seconds later on the next frequency with Dire
> > Straits already in progress. The break ended, the programming continued,
> > life went on for a little while...
>
>With no announcements as to the new frequencies?  The BBC World Service 
>always used to
>do that.

Oh yes, there were announcements, right before they headed into Dire 
Straits. I recall 5810 as having been one of the frequencies; there was 
something in the 15 MHz band as well, and probably something in between too 
that escapes me..

s