I used to listen to I think it was the DC sherriffs department or something 
in the 30 megs area on an old patrolman scanner someone gave me years ago.
This was mid 90's or so...and I used to leave the thing on preset scan 
sometimes...and when the good dx was rolling, I could hear all sorts of cool 
stuff from the lower 48 up in the Yukon.  I had a home made VHF ground plane 
antenna at about 10 feet off the ground as a scanner antenna.
What else can one do when it's 40 below outside?

73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Gammon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: Fwd: 1941 Major Armstrong QSO via 40MHz FM Yankee Network


> Tjhat was an interesting discussion.  I loved the New England accents, the
> discussion about food, and was surprised they let a woman talk on the air
> back then.  I wonder what part of the sunspot cycle it was back then and 
> if
> anyone ever heard those fm stations across the country.  I used to hear 
> snow
> plows and cops from the mid west and suffock county among other places on 
> 38
> to 40 MHZ on my low band radio.  I bet all that stuff has migrated up to 
> the
> new fancy and oh so expensive trunked or digital trunked systems by now.
> Jim WA6EKS
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Anthony Vece
> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 12:03 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Fwd: 1941 Major Armstrong QSO via 40MHz FM Yankee Network
>
> Sent from my Verizon iPhone 5!
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: January 12, 2013, 7:52:12 PM EST
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: 1941 Major Armstrong QSO via 40MHz FM Yankee Network
>> Reply-To: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>> Some of you may find this recording to be quite interesting.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Larry Szendrei" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: "Discussion of AM Radio" <[log in to unmask]>;
>> <[log in to unmask]>; "AWA Reflector"
>> <[log in to unmask]>; "Glowbugs"
>> <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 11:07 AM
>> Subject: [AMRadio] 1941 Major Armstrong QSO via 40MHz FM Yankee
>> Network
>>
>>
>> wav file (beware-nearly 300MB):
>> https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share?s=8kQLYm0yQ_IsTAIIFZdCGo
>>
>> reduced to mp3 thanks to Chris W4NEQ:
>> http://w4neq.com/misc/w1xoj_1941.mp3
>>
>> post by W1TAV (thanks, Steve!) and discussion on amfone.net:
>> http://amfone.net/Amforum/index.php?topic=33151.0
>>
>> I found it a very interesting listen.
>>
>> 73,
>> -Larry/NE1S
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