Yeah,  I remember those stations just above 15 meters too.  They 
were a really good indicator as to where the band was open.  Also, 
we had an old RCA television with the world-famous 21 MHz IF's. 
When the bands were good you could hear some of those stations 
coming through on unused channels between 2 and 13.  Talk about 
strange!

Don W6SMB


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: A little more about 15 Meters


> Mike,
>
> I well remember WNYW and used to listen to a lot of those a m 
> stations just
> above the 15 meter phone band.  There was, back in those days a 
> ton of
> really cool a m stations all over the world.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 4:52 PM
> Subject: A little more about 15 Meters
>
>
>> I remember hearing my first real DX, a ZL2 on 15 meter AM.
>>
>> As a Novice, I built what the ARRL Handbook called "A 1 Element 
>> Beam" for
> 15
>> meters. It was, of course, a center loaded rotatable dipole. It 
>> would have
>> been more efficient with a different loading scheme, but, it 
>> worked
> Holland
>> and Australia on the same July evening in 1969 for my first DX 
>> contacts.
>>
>> At least 2 other friends used that antenna as Novices after I 
>> upgraded to
> an
>> old TH4 beam.
>>
>> Just above 15 meters, of course, is the 13 meter BC band.
>>
>> Does anyone remember WNYW, better known as Radio New York 
>> Worldwide?
>>
>> I wrote to their DX Listening Post program, and my letter was 
>> read over
> the
>> air.
>>
>> I also remember being fascinated with the sound of the multipath 
>> echo
>> signals from the BC stations on that band when conditions were 
>> really
> good.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Mike Duke, K5XU
>> American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs
>>
>>
>
>
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