Re: [Harp-L] Deifik on the Grand Ol' Opry Saturday Night

["Splash!" <celtiac@xxxxxxxxx>]

There used to be "Clear Channel" radio stations in the USA.  Not to be 
mistaken for the Corporate radio-station ownership of the same name.  I'd 
listen to KDK in Pittsburgh, NBC in N.Y., CBS in Chicago, and yes WSM on 650 
Kilohertz (650Hz is in the human voice range of frequencies) from the seat 
of my dad's 1960 Caddillac with the Wonderbar Radio from down here in South 
Florida.  Lots of other stations too.  Unfortunately, there are no really 
clear channels these days and alot of Latin American interference.

A long wire (2 or more full wavelengths) at 650Khz is approximately 3 miles 
long.

Splash!
aka W4PJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Payne" <dmatthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Harp L Harp L" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Deifik on the Grand Ol' Opry Saturday Night


> Ken, that's awesome!
>
> A lot of us should be able to listen to it live. I know I will be. Because 
> of the way low-frequency radio waves travel in the atmosphere in the 
> evening and at night, people all over the eastern U.S. and probably the 
> Plains and Midwest as well, should be able to hear it, by tuning their Am 
> radios to 650 Hz. Also, I think WSM is on Sirius Satellite Radio and the 
> Opry is on the Nashville! channel on XM... at least I think that's right.
> Here in W.Va., I can pick up WSM very clearly, but I've suped up my AM set 
> quite a bit by hooking an outdoor longwire up to the internal ferrite 
> antenna (a fun project my 8-year-old son and I did), but I've listed to 
> WSM many times on regular AM sets.
>
>
> Dave
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Ken Deifik <kenneth.d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thu, June 17, 2010 6:57:05 PM
> Subject: [Harp-L] Deifik on the Grand Ol' Opry Saturday Night
>
> I'll be playing on the 8:15-8:45 show with Robert David Hall.
>
> Hopefully it'll be on YouTube next week.
>
> Ken