Really Wrapping Up!!

I should never make promises.  

I meant to write yesterday’s entry to be truly a wrap-up to the D.C. trip.  Just some unattached thoughts that didn’t really fit into my recounts of the journey already posted.  

And in my mind’s ear these musings justified only one entry.  

Until I sat down to write the thing late yesterday.  I then realized I had enough material still to do one more blog entry.  

So, I promise, here is the last of the cross-country sojourn.  

I did bring my DTV stick and my MacBook Air with me.  The intent was for me to check into the area’s TV stations should the opportunity arise.  

Yet I didn’t get this chance until the third night.  All of us were back in Northern Virginia (Falls Church) at the Marriott.  I grabbed the trusty radio and headed out to the parking lot.  (Gotta get away from all that wi-fi and other RF noise.)  

My hope was to listen to blowtorch heritage AM stations on the East Coast.  I can’t receive these even at my home listening post almost smack in the center of the contiguous 48 states.  

New York:  WABC.  WCBS.  And others.  

Yes!  770 WABC was well audible.  As was 880 WCBS.  

But my joy didn’t end there.  I also heard 660 WFAN (the old WNBC), 710 WOR, and 1010 WINS.  

I heard a couple of stations from Baltimore but given this market is so close and practically local I wasn’t shocked.  

However one of B-more’s AM stations was broadcasting on 680 which prevented me from hearing Boston’s WRKO.  

And given the time constraints (and my level of fatigue) I didn’t do any research on powerhouses from Philadelphia or any points west of my location.  

I didn’t have nearly as much luck or fun with the TV end of things.  Since my hotel room was pointing away from the Tenleytown area of the District my channel scan yielded nothing worthwhile.  I had to settle for the hotel’s cable-fed feed of the local stations.  With no subchannels.  

Can’t win them all.  

I could sum all of this up by stealing a phrase from our tour guide:  This trip whet our appetite for the nation’s capital.  We are encouraged to come back on our own and spend more time at the places that caught our interest.  

I just might.