What station was Clemens' first 20-K game on?

[Eli Polonsky]

> > From: Sean Smyth <ssmyth@suscom.net>
> CC: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> To: Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com>, Howard Glazer
> <hmglaz@webtv.net>
> Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 07:54:59 -0400
> Subject: Re: What station was Clemens' first 20-K game on?
> 
> My own hunch: since I believe this was the Campbell Sports era,
> the game likely would have aired on WPLM-FM. I'm wondering if
> you could have even hauled in the signal on a 1985-era Walkman.

I don't know, but more likely on a 1985 Walkman than on one of
today's Walkmans. My old analog tuning Sony Walkman from that
era with a three-position Local/DX switch blew away any later
digital tuning Walkmans I've owned for sensitivity, selectivity
and intermodulation rejection.

It wasn't intended to be a three-position Local/DX switch, but
if you put it in the middle in between Local and DX you got an
unintended "medium" setting that was perfect for the urban area.

> Technically, Dan's wrong about the game not being on AM radio;
> if you're a radio geek, why you could have listened to Ken and
> Joe on WTIC via skywave at Fenway.

Not during early games. WILD's IBOC would kill them until after
sunset.

Eli Polonsky