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I miss fall plowing!!

super99

super99

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on a moonlit evening. Moon bright enough to run without the lights on and still see what's going on, manifold and muffler cherry red and flame coming out the stack!!! Started out at 13 on a U MM and 3 bottom pull plow. Graduated up to a 4010 diesel and 4-14's and a tractor radio listening to WWl and KAAY, Little Rock, Arkansas. They came in better than anything local here in NW Illinois. AH, to be young again!!!
 
I remember nights like that doing fall tillage work.. all we had was AM.. listening to KMOA, oklahoma city.. there was another station (i cant remember the callsign) out of calgary that came in just about as good here in Idaho..
 
Yes, for me it was the 700 Case and 4-14 plow. It was really to much plow for that tractor in this black gumbo soil. Had 7 weights on the top wheel and 5 on the bottom. 3rd. gear. I believe that was 3.2 mph. Three quarter mile rounds. Seemed like it took for ever to make a round.
 
A lot of what you guys were listening to was back in
The day of “clear channel” radio stations, granted
To have enough output to broadcast halfway across
the country. In Northeast Arkansas, it was WLS out
of Chicago in the early sixties.
 
For me it was a 37B an a one bottom plow. My job back in the 70s was to finsh the dead furrow and the ends of the field. Back then it was work and alot of times all day doing it. Now I have a 39h with a one bottom plow on it and at some tractor shows they let you plow and the people sure love seen it work. I always go after the steamers and bigger tractors and it seem the people like it just as much as the steamer pulling 7 to 8 bottom plow. Iv had guys mad at me because it's all painted up an here I'm reckon the paint job but good is it if you don't use it now and then. Iv also have some guys mad at me because I won't sell it to them.
 
I didn't do the fall plowing but in the spring I would be out working ground and could get any of these stations at night. WABC,WBZ,WRVA,WSM,Though There was a Canadian Station CFCO would interfere due to distance and proximity on the dial. WSM is 650 and CFCO is 630, Also used to get WWL WBAP, WMAQ, I used to use them for weather conditions also. AM would pickup the lightening strikes as static. IF I got lightening on BAP 820 then would try WSM 650 If still lightening then would go to WMAQ 670 If it quit then the storm was still a few days out if I go it at MAQ then it would be here in a day or two. There was also a station in IA I used to pick up sometimes. The grade of radio also affected the ones I could get. IN my Pete I can get most of those listed. I also used to get 65o AM out of Cheyenne WY till I got to about 100 or so miles east of Cheyenne. The rest were from home in MI. Going across I-90 I used to get a station from Winnepeg that had old time radio shows on would listen to that for a while then would lose and have to change.
 
If i remember right in NC you could pick up Ralph Emery WSM Nashiville.TN Bill Mack Ft.Worth TX WBAP Charlie Douglas New Orleans Mike don't remember last name Des Moines.IA good ole country music.
 
KOMA could not be heard here until they went to Full Power think it was 9 pm here,, until we got our firstFM and Rock station ROCK and KOLL in 1976 KOMA was what we had other than albums or the reel to reel tape player,, after that the only time I switched to AM was to hear Paul Harvey everyday at noon
 
Here in SE SD, we could get both KOMA & WLS about the time the sun went down. Don't know if it was the stations were allowed to go to more power or something in the ionosphere that allowed this area to get the reception. Of course we could get WNAX out of Yankton, SD all the time. WNAX always had great weather and news broadcasting.
 
Here in WC Iowa, it was WLS out of Chicago on an IH 656 with an IH 60 plow with 3x16's. I plowed 66 acres earlier this fall with me '41 Farmall M and Lil Genius 2x16 plow. I don't what's wrong but cannot load the pictures on here.
 
Late 50's/ early 60's Me and My Two Brothers had a transistor in a window , Listen to Little Rock Ak , and we lived in central Wisconsin , Great Station
Wayne
 
1800 oliver 5 bottom oliver semi mount plow, with heat houser canvas. got full fumes one way and got frozen the other directions. that unit never could seem to keep narrow front down just learned about 1ft to 1 1/2 foot in the air and she just ride ther the whole half mile rows . later it was 2150 mfwd unit pulled 7 16 i loved that unit. cab was still a freezer box but at least the fumes were mostly gone.
 
That sounds about right, I remember having the push button radio preset with KOMA,, and would tune/punch the button it right before time to be able to hear it, the DJ's would come on and say something like we are now at 100 thousands watts on Clear channel KOMA,, funny how things like that stick in my mind,, our other choice was just the local KIML which still is around today as far as I know,, they were always a Country station but would take requests after 10 pm of less desired by many then of soft rock songs like the Beatles ect ,, I had to play my records if I wanted the music I liked, of course only in my room as Dad did not care at all for my music lol
 
I know what you mean. I saved and printed this picture from this site and keep it on display. Thanks whoever posted it in the past.
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The inosphere reflects AM radio waves better at night. We used to call it "hardening" of the Ionosphere although that isn't exactly what happens. When ADF radios first came out pilots reported hearing faraway stations. Flying over the Mediterranean and hearing some station in Ohio, for example. I used to drive up through central Wisconsin at night listening to a Yankee game on 770 ABC in New York City. Can't do it now with these new radios. They filter out all of that faraway stuff. At least mine does. We never had radios on the fender of our tractors. Knew about them. Just never had one.
 
Listened to KOMA after sundown when they "powered up" when I was in North Dakota. Favorite station. I think Fargo had a station that would have to sign off about dusk so when that happened we'd switch to KOMA.
 
funny thing about fender radios you could hear them better at about half mile away than you could setting in the seat ,you had them that loud to try to hear over the tractor
 
I don't remember the station, but driving from North central Ohio back to college in Angola, IN late on Sunday night i used to get a spanish language statin, I think from Cuba. I used to listen to it to stay awake, never understood a word. Fall plowing was done with a 1941 JD H and 1948 Allis B--no radios on either one.
 
Larry LuJack and his "Cheap Animal Story". Dad used to HATE when I ran "His tractor", with his good Automatic tractor radio, I'd always change the station! I could listen to WLS 165 miles away better than the local station about 8 miles away as the crow flies, the bigger stations around the Quad-Cities, Moline, Rock Island, Davenport, Bettendorf didn't come in well either. I got a TENNA tractor radio for MY tractor for my 14th birthday, it struggled getting local stations, no chance at all getting WLS.
The BTO I worked for didn't have a radio in a single tractor! Even his brand new 4320 with factory ROPS cab with heater and air conditioning had NO RADIO, finally he bought a slightly used 4230 with an M&W turbo, and the Sound-Gard cab, with a radio. He bought a used 2470 CASE Comfort King 4x4, no radio in that either, but other than that, I really liked running it! I pulled the same chisel plow with 220 HP quite a bit faster than the 4320 with 120 hp could pull it. It had 28Lx26 tires, rode like a Cadillac!
 
Dad was too tight to buy a fender radio so I bought a head phone transistor set at feed store. Had to tilt head different angles or directions to get reception. WLS or WMAQ had good signals.
 
WOWO was a great, powerful station. But 20 years ago, a New York station on the same frequency bought WOWO and got approval to cut back their night time power so that the New York station could up their power to 30,000 watts.
 
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