On Jul 19, 6:31�pm, Mike wrote:
On Jul 19, 3:42 pm, Bob Dobbs wrote:





dave wrote:
dxAce wrote:

Bob Dobbs wrote:

Mike wrote:
US pirate KUSA on 6925 from 2325 to 2335+ UTC in English. Plenty of
silly spoof songs, Smoke on the Water, Elvis singing Teddy Bear, M w/
loud IDs "This is KUSA- North America," announcing Gmail address.
Signal varying a lot but at SIO-454 on peaks. (Bryant-KY, E1, July 18)
Didn't there used to be a domestic (USA) SW station going by that call
and had a show called Wasatch Wind? I think they were in the north west
somewhere, and until I purged my old collection even had a QSL from
them. This was circa a couple decades ago in the 2010 days.

Went looking this AM for a KUSW QSL (verie, for those in Glendale) but
couldn't find it. Maybe don't even have one. Did find one from KTBN, which was
the successor to KUSW.

I've seen one in PopCom or somewhere. Snow capped mountains as I recall
(through the drug-addled haze).

I seem to recall that they were a short lived venture, saw a notice in
MT, tuned and found them, then lo and behold they were gone in less than
a year (not sure, but it wasn't long). Didn't they also have a signal on
the new at the time 13m band?

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Operator Bob
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OK, I'm straining here, but wasn't KUSW the name of the rock station
on shortwave in the mid-80's? It broadcast from Tooele, UT (about 25
miles west of SLC). It played a lot of louder "headbanger" rock of the
early 80's. As I remember it, the military used the KUSW broadcasts on
loud speakers (from a sub?) to drive Noriega out of sanctuary in the
church he holed up in during the Panama invasion. A form of auditory
torture...

I know that by the late 80's, the religious Trinity Broadcasting
Network had bought the station as the global pilot ship of the TBN
network, KTBN.

There ought to be some old news accounts of the Panamanian invasion
(excuse me, "police action") that ought to be able to verify whether
or not this story is true.

Pretty sure,

Mike,
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When all else fails, try Wikipedia:

"Non-religious private broadcasters

While most private shortwave broadcasters in the United States are
operated by religious groups or carry mostly religious programming,
there have also been attempts at starting non-religious shortwave
stations.

Two such stations were WRNO in New Orleans and KUSW in Salt Lake City,
both of them with a rock and roll music format. Both stations were
well received by shortwave listeners, but could not make the format
successful in the long run. KUSW wound up being sold to the Trinity
Broadcasting Network and is now religious broadcaster KTBN. WRNO kept
its rock & roll format going for most of the 1980s but eventually
switched formats to selling brokered airtime to political and
religious broadcasts, suffered a damaged transmitter, and eventually
ceased broadcasting altogether following the death of its owner, Joe
Costello."

Hey, someone needs to update Wikipedia....

Mike,
Louisville, KY

On Jul 19, 7:03�pm, Mike wrote:
On Jul 19, 6:31 pm, Mike wrote:





On Jul 19, 3:42 pm, Bob Dobbs wrote:

dave wrote:
dxAce wrote:

Bob Dobbs wrote:

Mike wrote:
US pirate KUSA on 6925 from 2325 to 2335+ UTC in English. Plenty of
silly spoof songs, Smoke on the Water, Elvis singing Teddy Bear, M w/
loud IDs "This is KUSA- North America," announcing Gmail address..
Signal varying a lot but at SIO-454 on peaks. (Bryant-KY, E1, July 18)
Didn't there used to be a domestic (USA) SW station going by that call
and had a show called Wasatch Wind? I think they were in the north west
somewhere, and until I purged my old collection even had a QSL from
them. This was circa a couple decades ago in the 2010 days.

Went looking this AM for a KUSW QSL (verie, for those in Glendale) but
couldn't find it. Maybe don't even have one. Did find one from KTBN, which was
the successor to KUSW.

I've seen one in PopCom or somewhere. Snow capped mountains as I recall
(through the drug-addled haze).

I seem to recall that they were a short lived venture, saw a notice in
MT, tuned and found them, then lo and behold they were gone in less than
a year (not sure, but it wasn't long). Didn't they also have a signal on
the new at the time 13m band?

--

Operator Bob
Echo Charlie 42- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

OK, I'm straining here, but wasn't KUSW the name of the rock station
on shortwave in the mid-80's? It broadcast from Tooele, UT (about 25
miles west of SLC). It played a lot of louder "headbanger" rock of the
early 80's. As I remember it, the military used the KUSW broadcasts on
loud speakers (from a sub?) to drive Noriega out of sanctuary in the
church he holed up in during the Panama invasion. A form of auditory
torture...

I know that by the late 80's, the religious Trinity Broadcasting
Network had bought the station as the global pilot ship of the TBN
network, KTBN.

There ought to be some old news accounts of the Panamanian invasion
(excuse me, "police action") that ought to be able to verify whether
or not this story is true.

Pretty sure,

Mike,
Louisville, KY- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

When all else fails, try Wikipedia:

"Non-religious private broadcasters

While most private shortwave broadcasters in the United States are
operated by religious groups or carry mostly religious programming,
there have also been attempts at starting non-religious shortwave
stations.

Two such stations were WRNO in New Orleans and KUSW in Salt Lake City,
both of them with a rock and roll music format. Both stations were
well received by shortwave listeners, but could not make the format
successful in the long run. KUSW wound up being sold to the Trinity
Broadcasting Network and is now religious broadcaster KTBN. WRNO kept
its rock & roll format going for most of the 1980s but eventually
switched formats to selling brokered airtime to political and
religious broadcasts, suffered a damaged transmitter, and eventually
ceased broadcasting altogether following the death of its owner, Joe
Costello."

Hey, someone needs to update Wikipedia....

Mike,
Louisville, KY- Hide quoted text -

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Verification of the Noriega story from RationalWiki.com:

"After the U.S. invasion of Panama, the target of the invasion,
strongman Manuel Noriega, sought asylum in the Vatican diplomatic
mission represented by Monsignor Jose S. Laboa. To induce Noriega's
surrender, U.S. forces played loud music outside the embassy[2] by
cranking up the rock & roll from the armed forces' Southern Command
Network radio station (which took requests and played such things as
Van Halen's "Hang Em High" and Iron Maiden's "Run to the Hills"), and
sometimes switching to shortwave station KUSW out of Salt Lake City
for a change of pace. "

That's found under the heading : "Abuse of music as torture"...

Mike
Louisville, KY