Didn't know they were ever country, I didn't discover
a.m. dx till about 1984. I don't think we'll ever be
rid of all the stupid laws, they just keep making
them, lol.
--- Martin McCormick <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>         Yes.  They tried everything once during the
> eighties.
> Actually, at that time, KOMA was only AM.  They
> bought out a so-called
> beautiful music station on FM in the early nineties
> or maybe late
> eighties--I forget exactly when and then simulcast
> until February of
> 2003 when KOMA AM became a news/talk station.  I
> believe they have
> been heard as far away as New Zealand.  I knew a guy
> whose brother was
> in the Navy on the aircraft carrier Kearsarge.  He
> said they could get
> KOMA almost up to the coast of Japan.  Just think.
> That's almost 160
> metres.
>
>         Years ago, the Oklahoma City City Counsel
> had passed one of
> those really dumb ordinances aimed at trying to stop
> criminals from
> listening to police radio while driving around and
> committing crimes.
> They passed a law forbidding anyone from having a
> car radio capable of
> tuning wavelengths shorter than 200 metres.
>
>         Guess what.  The top end of the AM broadcast
> band fits right in
> to that description.  KOMA at 1520 is on a wave
> length of 197.37
> Metres.  In the mid sixties, somebody caught on to
> that at KOMA and a
> campaign started to make a laughing stock of the OKC
> City Counsel.
> KOMA would frequently bring up the point that it was
> technically
> illegal to listen to them in your car in Oklahoma
> City.
>
>         I believe the counselscrapped the law right
> away.
>
> Buddy Brannan writes:
> >But...but...but...but...but...didn't KOMA used to
> be country? At least
> >the AM station did, way back when I was a kid in
> the early '80's when
> >I first discovered that AM really stretched out at
> night! :)


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