Have you ever tuned around on an FM radio

and come to a station that was playing a song that you HAD to listen to ?  Today it was this one:

That band was the complete package: singing, dancing and those funky outfits !

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs069dndIYk

I was going to listen to the pre-net for the DX-60 net (3880 kHz AM, 1300 UTC or 7 AM CST Sunday) with my Sony ICF2010 to try out synchronous demodulation, see yesterdays post:

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2025/11/synchronous-detection-of-am.html

But I took the 3 minutes required to finish listening to September by Earth, Wind and Fire.  Amazing song with the horn section and a catchy beat.

BTW, synch mode didn't work that well listening to the DX-60 net, got a lot of heterodyning.  I guess the PLL in the Sony synch detector keeps going with the same BFO setting after an AM station stops transmitting.  So if the next guy is off frequency the offset is audible as a tone.  Which is true when AM is listened to with regular product detected USB or LSB.  BTW the tuneup period at the start of the net is a hoot !

So I went back to the Sony diode detector, it worked fine.  And if I hadn't taken the time for September I might have been able to get video of hearing the start of the net.  Listening to the song was worth it though :)

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm