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Originally Posted by kato13
Best wishes regarding your mom. One of my best friends was in the same position 7 years ago (stage III breast) and currently is suffering no ill effects (except for some residual chemo effects when she loses weight). Hope you can keep yours and her spirits up.
Yeah my dad was a overnight DJ in the late 60s on one of the more powerful Chicago AM stations and he would get callers from across the country. The central location of Chicago, the relative flatness of the nation around here and the overnight bounces really makes it go an amazing distance.
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Thanks, Kato! Yeah, it is tough but so far as we know, it is just in the left breast and perhaps a small spot on her lung, which is typical. Hopefully the chemo will get it, shrink it and then we will have surgery. I've talked to another patient at Mom's oncologist and she had breast cancer for the least 10 years and the last 5 years, she was on chemo straight. She has issues but she manages her cancer.
Chicago DJ? What station? WCFL, WMAQ or WLS? I've heard of some legendary DJs of the time like Larry Lujack, Jim Runyon (who came up with Chickenman), Barney Pip, John Driscoll, Dick Biondi, Jim Stagg, etc. I pick up Chicago a lot here in Pittsburgh. The furthest I've picked up was an AM station from Berkley, California in my (then) Ford Explorer along with the "Carribean Beacon" from the West Indies. I've also picked up Texas stations. When I was in Florida, I listened to KDKA-AM from here in Pittsburgh and so did my uncle, who worked for NASA at the Cape. My cousins remember him on most nights hearing static and whistles as he tried to pull in KDKA. BTW, WJR's signals skip across the Great Lakes and across a relatively flat Ohio so that's how I get them in the day. I once talked across Lake Erie on 2 meters VHF into Canada across Lake Erie using one 1 watt, the standard HT rubber antenna and 6 penlite batteries.