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Offline Paul B. Walker, Jr.

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This DX'er Was A BBC WS "NewsDay" Guest
« on: August 02, 2021, 0048 UTC »
Back on Tuesday July 27 UTC time, I was listening to the BBC WS' NewsDay program and they did a short piece on Lydia Jacoby, an olympic athlete from Seward, AK who won a gold medal, I texted them in just saying Hi and giving a shoutout to Alaska, since I'm in Alaska. They read my text out on air and said, jokingly "Weve got a reporter from McGrath on his way to Seward right now 300 miles away".  

I texted them again and said if they really wanted a report from alaska, I could record something. I included my phone number and 5 minutes later I got a call from London, and 10 minutes later I was live with their sports guy talking about it.. not because I know squat about sports, but because i'm in the media nad I'm in Alaska. It wasnt so much serious reporting as it was .. kinda cool, we have someone in Alaska type of thing.

I recorded the broadcast of the 15490kHz transmission via Santa Maria de Galleria (Vatican) to central Africa. Here's the recording:https://drive.google.com/file/d/14BWER8l1H9RvrZU27eW157D_9BMkEmrP/view?usp=sharing

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Re: This DX'er Was A BBC WS "NewsDay" Guest
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2021, 2119 UTC »
Wonderful story - Thanks for sharing.
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Re: This DX'er Was A BBC WS "NewsDay" Guest
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2021, 1232 UTC »
That is really cool. I'm glad you were able to do that. Hopefully they'll keep you on as the 'Alaskan correspondent'
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