My dad and I would repeatedly try in vain at 3 or 4 AM to get a BYU game via shortwave radio in Saudi in the 80s

Aug 16, 2019
2:34:50pm

Indy Coug Loquacious Lummox

Hoping we could find AFR or anyone else broadcasting it in Europe. It often took at least two days to find out who won and we'd only get a score and no explanation of what happened.

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Originally posted on Aug 16, 2019 at 2:34:50pm

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hardest you have worked, longest time spent to put yourself in position to watch or hear a BYU game?

cougarmanguy All-American

8/16/19 2:27pm

I would call my Dad when I was in Iraq and he would put the phone next the radio. This was 2003.

SpiffCoug

8/16/19 2:30pm

My dad and I would repeatedly try in vain at 3 or 4 AM to get a BYU game via shortwave radio in Saudi in the 80s

Indy Coug

8/16/19 2:34pm

Payphone to HB Arnett’s Hotline from Alaska airport in the 1980s.

MichCoug

8/16/19 2:35pm

I was camping in the Tetons during the Miami game. So I climbed a tree and...

So it goes...

8/16/19 2:58pm

Sneaking around the mtc to find workers that had the game on, and spying

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