Gee, and I was just going to say that I used to listen to some guys in
Australia on 40-meter SSB when I lived in Spookaloo.

Steve
K8SP

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan, Kevin" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: Radio Australia on MW All The Way over Here?


Hi Mike,

CBR in Calgary, 1010, carries CBC overnight and they rebroadcast several
different overseas services throughout the night.  While the thought of BC
band dx like this is thrilling, I would bet on CBR.  <GRIN>

Sorry about that.
Kevin, K7RX

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Freeman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 01:45 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Radio Australia on MW All The Way over Here?


Greetings!

Among my passions or, if you will, weaknesses, is antique radio -- more
specifically, broadcast receivers -- more specifically yet, tube portable
radios.  I have a bunch including several Zenith TransOceanics (a G500, a
H500, two L600's and a B600, all of which work except the H500).  I
acquired the B600 the other day and was fiddling around with it at 5 in
the morning, listening to KOMO News 1000 (Tacoma, WA; I'm in Vancouver,
WA).  Just up the dial from this, in amongst the welter of stations, I
heard faintly familiar music -- the fanfare which accompanies Radio
Australia's hourly news on SW and on the Internet.  Anyone know if
Australia is broadcasting (either Radio National or Radio Australia
International) on medium-wave just above one megaHertz?  Or was some U.S.
station rebroadcasting it.  I can hardly believe I heard Down Under on
medium-wave, especially from a T/O.  But who knows?

73!

Mike Freeman < K 7 U I J >