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Author Topic: WBZ (Boston) 1030 AM 2352 UTC 23 NOV 2021  (Read 1562 times)

Offline Ct Yankee

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WBZ (Boston) 1030 AM 2352 UTC 23 NOV 2021
« on: November 24, 2021, 0000 UTC »

Very good reception, now at short stay in Cleveland, Ohio - about 575 miles.

2352 Town Fair Tire Commercial
2353 Traffic on the 3's, ID
2354 Weather to Netflix story
2358 Public Service commercial
0000 WBZ Boston ID, News Radio 33 degrees
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Offline East Troy Don

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Re: WBZ (Boston) 1030 AM 2352 UTC 23 NOV 2021
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2022, 0225 UTC »
Tuning thru MW on the Tecsun 990x/AN-200 loop and just caught the ID @ 0220 utc.   Syndicated talk show.    Strong QSB here in Southern Wisconsin
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Re: WBZ (Boston) 1030 AM 2352 UTC 23 NOV 2021
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2022, 0231 UTC »
02:29 UTC 24 SEP 2022 - Loud and clear with talk show programing, "moving to first class" story from a call-in show;
02:31 UTC - Station ID.


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Offline Pigmeat

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Re: WBZ (Boston) 1030 AM 2352 UTC 23 NOV 2021
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2022, 1347 UTC »
When I was a teenager I used to stay up all night listening to Larry Glick's weirdness on WBZ. He'd have his listeners mail him pay phone numbers from all over the US that he would call randomly to see who would answer. He had some strange rangers answer those phones.

 

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