[BC] Let the WHINING begin

[CBoone]

And George Carlin would allude to that fact when he did Wonderful W I N O
routine:
"Wonderful WINO, 1750 on your dial, just above the police calls, kids"

Amazingly, Carlin joined the Air Force as a RADAR technician before becoming
a DJ.


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> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 10:52 PM
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> Subject: Re: [BC] Let the WHINING begin
> 
> 
> Harold noted:
> 
> >As a kid in the Berkekey area, I listened to the Los Angeles police
> somewhere around that frequency...
> 
> -------------
> 
> Yes, if you find an old radio with shortwave, it may show 
> frequencies just above the old MW band for "police calls".  
> Around 1606 kc/s, IIRC.  The nthey moved to the 26-mc/s band, 
> to VHF (our CHP still uses freqs around 40 MHz), the 150-MHz 
> area, and now 800-MHz trunked systems.
> 
> 
> Glen Kippel
> KHCS
> Palm Desert, CA
> 
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