My first am DX list:

[electronjohn]

ponderbear...so glad you mentioned "Beaker Street". A fantastic program that introduced a LOT of folks to music they otherwise wouldn't have been aware of. It's still the ONLY place I've ever heard "The hour of The Wolf" by The Hassles, and, of course, "The Legend of the Titanic" by Jaime Brockett....among a bunch of others. The story of the show is so cool...Clyde Clifford did it from KAAY's transmitter site instead of the studio. (Union rules prevented him from both being on the air and operating the controls at the studio...so it was off to a backup studio at the transmitter.) Sitting next to an air-cooled 50kW rig means LOTS of background noise when the mic is on, so Clyde tracked that famous "bleeep, bloop" stuff underneath his live breaks. The "bleep, bloop" is from an actual LP called "Head" by Head (what else did you expect?!?!?!) on Buddah records. (I mean, where else??) I found a copy in a huge pile of cutouts purchased by a friend who owned a record/stereo shop. He let me have first look at about 5,000 lps...and there it was! Clyde's still on the air with "Beaker Street"...log on to www.beakerstreet.com. He's on 94.1 The Point in Little Rock every Sunday nite, and it's streamed. The site even has archived files for downloading. Puts you right back, late at night in your 57 Chevy, hash pipe in hand. I mean, just take a look at the playlist from Sunday 11/16!!

[ponderbear]

Originally Posted by electronjohn

The "bleep, bloop" is from an actual LP called "Head" by Head (what else did you expect?!?!?!) on Buddah records. (I mean, where else??) I found a copy in a huge pile of cutouts purchased by a friend who owned a record/stereo shop. He let me have first look at about 5,000 lps...and there it was!

Nice story! I have a copy, too.. after I found out where those sounds were from I had to find it. Only the 60s (and early 70s by "contact high" )could have made an album like that.

[Reece]

Back where I grew up in Beaumont Texas we'd pick up KEEL 710 "K-double E L" Shreveport LA when they were a rock & roll station back in the late '50's. Attached is a Larry Lujack "Double-you ELLL ess" audio clip.
http://airchexx.com/markets/chicago/...o-january-1984

Reece

[ablethevoice]

Hmmm... What am I doing wrong? I went to your linked page, clicked on the CLICK HERE TO PLAY and got a popup window which proved to be the home page of Airchexx.com. No audio. My first guess is that the website is optimized for broadband and ignored my click-in request because I'm on dialup.

[Reece]

Tried the link in my post and it worked for me. Try this: here's the link to the player itself. See if that works for you.
Reece

http://airchexx.org/wp-content/plugi...=225&width=470

[ablethevoice]

I'm convinced its the connection speed. I clicked on the other link you posted and:


That's all I got. I have pretty much every media player known to mankind installed on my system. Seems no matter where I went, there was always a site that required me to DL yet another player to handle the media on their page. I have the QT as well as the Real player but neither of them open.

Thanks for trying anyway.

I'm overdue for a migrane anyway. I guess I'll call BellShit and pester them again about getting DSL out here.

[sprman55]

Hi nice list i still am dx .Dont forget to try the new expanded band 1.600 to 1.710mhz.Ihave heard many stations there.Good luck on dxing try right at sunset and just befor sun rise.Should be able to get many more stations.Sprman : 0

[NowhereMan 1966]

Originally Posted by sprman55

Hi nice list i still am dx .Dont forget to try the new expanded band 1.600 to 1.710mhz.Ihave heard many stations there.Good luck on dxing try right at sunset and just befor sun rise.Should be able to get many more stations.Sprman : 0

I know, I once picked up KDIA out of Berkeley, California on the radio in my 1994 Ford Explorer here in Pittsburgh.

[electroking]

I get to drive from Montreal to Quebec City about once a week, starting around
4:45 AM, and I do spend much of the time (about 3 hours including a stop for
breakfast) with the scanner running on AM. Quite interesting, two Chicago
stations among the regular catches.

For something exotic, including a fair share of nice music, anyone in the North
East can try the French CBC outlet from Toronto at 860 kHz. Happy DXing!

[Sandy G]

There was a station in Cincinnati at 1530 that USED to play very good music-Of course, they HAD to go to a Sports Talk format...

[radiotvnut]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

There was a station in Cincinnati at 1530 that USED to play very good music-Of course, they HAD to go to a Sports Talk format...

Yes, I used to pick them up from time to time. They played all the less common oldies that are not heard on FM. Then, one night I tuned them in just to hear the usual talk chatter that everyone else is kicking out.

We used to have an FM oldies station; but, it changed to a (c)rap/r&b (if you wanna call it that) format. They could have probably hung on as an oldies station; but, all they played was the same top 10 oldies over and over. I think everyone got tired of hearing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" and "My Boyfriend's Back" 20 times a day!

We also had a small locally owned daytime only AM station that actually had real DJ's that would take request. They played old country, pop, and a little old gospel during the week and there was a rock n roll oldies show on Saturday morning. The original station owner passed away and it wasn't long before his son made a "business decision" and let go of the DJ's, went automated, and changed the format to African-American preaching and gospel music! That move irritated 100's of listeners to the point of calling the station and writing letters to the newspaper. That was about 3 years ago and they are still doing gospel music. The question I'm asking myself is why do we need another gospel station? We only have a half dozen in my area but not a single "oldies" station.

[Sandy G]

Oh, yeah. We got "Wholly Roller" stations up here by the bushel. Seemingly, in a lot of 'em, the owner/preacher's wife is the Station Engineer, & she knows NOTHING about such advanced concepts as Modulation-they simply turn everything up to 11 & let fly. Nor do they understand concepts of Equipment Grounding, so lotsa times they have a nice 60Hz HUMMMMMMMMM on about all of their broadcasts. Nevermind, though, for The Word HAS to get out; There are Souls to be Saved.

[radiotvnut]

There is one such hole in the wall station here. The station owner plays engineer and often causes more harm than good. I don't know if he's cheap or what the deal is; but, he won't call in an engineer unless the transmitter goes down. They were running an old worn out Gates transmitter until the room flooded where the transmitter is located and he was forced to upgrade. They also had a Gates "yard" tube mono control board. I bought that board when he finally upgraded to a solid state model; but, the Gates board was in sad shape. I finally sold it for what I had in it. He still uses old cart machines that don't look to have been cleaned in years. His turntable was an old QRK (also in sad shape) with a tonearm that tracked at about 5 lbs. And, his signal is usually terrible. It's either filled with hum or is very distorted.

I'll add that I don't have anything against gospel music in general. I just don't care for the type played around here. There is one southern gospel station here that I'll listen to sometimes, usually when I'm checking a radio out that I repaired; but, all the screaming and hollering on the other stations don't do it for me.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand. I think I'll check out KMOX this Saturday and see if they are still running their oldies program called Route 66.

[ablethevoice]

About two weeks ago I decided to flip my (semi-newly-acquired*) Hammarlund HQ145 to MW and see what was going on at dark-o'clock in the morning. Amongst all of the normal AM garbage I expected, I was shocked to hear: 1) A live DJ actually playing 2) real music!! Turned out it was KMOX. This was late Sat/early Sun maybe 130 am. Pretty good stuff in his mix. Not the normal stuff our local FM oldies station plays.

*Semi-newly-acquired meaning I got it in my hands on March 31

[bgadow]

I can basically trace my whole interest in old radio and television to some night around 1980, I'm 8 years old, checking out the am band on a little Panasonic am/fm handheld. I picked up WBZ Boston, and then something out of Chicago. I was hooked. I have some old logs hidden away somewhere. I really need to take a night and see what I can find-haven't really done it in over 15 years, not like I used to. I did play around earlier in the week with the boat anchors but none of them are in the shape they should be. Maybe I'll pull a chair up to my Philco 38-3.

There is a small am daytimer in our county that plays nothing but recorded preaching. (they were playing the OTR show that was hosted by Stan Freberg, I forget the name, but I haven't tuned in lately to see if it's still on) As with others mentioned, the quality is terrible. Many of the shows are inaudible. From what I gather they are paid programming and I guess if the tape is lousy it doesn't matter to the station, they get paid either way. I think it's good that they are on the air with the message, but I have to say I've never been anywhere where someone was listening to them.

Further note: early in my DXing I heard the old syndicated "Comedy Show" with Jack Carney, which hooked me on OTR and comedy albums. Great memories.