Some women wake to breakfast in bed, some to at least the words “Happy Valentine’s Day”. Herself hears “hey – I think I just heard California on am radio”. Try saying that with a bit of a nasally voice. Romance. Mr. Love.
So at 6 am this morning there I am, listening to 1070 am and Moncton CBC and Stan Carew is coming in fairly strong over the god awful “good time oldies” format of Sarnia when I hear in the background at time check for a little after three in the morning and the station letters K??. Three letter stations are cool to a radio nred because they are old, and for a Maritime kid “K” stations, generally west of the Mississippi, are especially cool. So I hear the lead item on sports that the Sabres scored seven times to beat the Kings, the temperature is 44 degrees and then there is an ad for placing ads on the station giving a 323 area code number to call. Bingo – KNX Los Angeles. Neato (and, again, use a bit of the nasal).
California is a difficult am radio pickup from eastern North America as the signal has to get over the Rockies. So another state for the life list and my east-west reception goes from the US pacific coast to that East German station I taped giving an ID on 1044 back in high school.
