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am radio stations

varianvarian Member Posts: 2,260 ✭✭✭✭
edited January 2017 in General Discussion
growing up in mountains of Wv in the 50,60s listening late at night to am radio was as close to learning of an outside world as i could get. how many of you remember the great 50k watt radio stations that would bring the outside world to you. WWL new orleans, wsm nashville, wsb atlanta, kdka pittsburg, wgn chicago.and wbz boston are some i seem to remember. loved the Grand Ol Opry on wsm.
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  • tccoxtccox Member Posts: 7,379 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am trying to remember the station that had the xmitter in Mexico that broadcast all over the US. Seems like they were 100KW and had to be in Mexico because they were too powerful to broadcast in the US. Tom
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  • HandLoadHandLoad Member Posts: 15,998 ✭
    edited November -1
    Used to be able to hear KGO Waaaaay out at Sea, Days before making port.

    Could pick up HCJB "Heralding Christ Jesus' Blessings" nearly anywhere in this Hemisphere! From Quito, Ecuador!

    Not quite what you are asking, but loved KNX while I was in Greater Los Angeles Megopolis.

    KVI great station.
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  • discusdaddiscusdad Member Posts: 11,427 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    st louis, kmox
    san antonio woai i think.... chicago couldn't get the east coast stations much.
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  • HandLoadHandLoad Member Posts: 15,998 ✭
    edited November -1
    XHIS, from Mexico, used to be a really fun station - had fake ads for "Thud School of Skydiving", and The Stories of "The OB Ranger", complete with Miss Melons, the dastardly Panama Red. "Hi-Yo Silvia, Awaaay!". The OB Ranger had a "Trusty Companion, Indian, riding a Pinto named Ford
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  • 4205raymond4205raymond Member Posts: 3,361 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Back in 50's,60's I use to listen to WWVA in Wheeling from Central Virginia. Lot of local stations you could hardly bring in but WWVA was blasting away. They must have had some real broadcast power.
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  • jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,241 ******
    edited November -1
    Ya'll must have lived on a mountain.
    Down in the holler, all we could get was WLS out of Chicago.
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  • ltcdotyltcdoty Member Posts: 4,183 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    And WGY, Schenectady, New York....the blowtorch of the Northeast..
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    goat gland Brinkley ...sold patent medicines by the number to cure ills...ran for kansas givernor, had a radio staion in del rio texas..that covered a lot of America..finally got radio license yanked and put it across the river ..broadcasting over a large part of America..got rich...quack quack
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  • TangoSierraTangoSierra Member Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Used to listen to WWL out of New Orleans back then when I was on the road at night. Great Country Western music. Catered to over the road truckers mostly.
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  • Old-ColtsOld-Colts Member Posts: 22,697 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Listening in my car to Wolfman Jack, XERF AM in Ciudad Acu?a, Mexico.

    If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!

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  • armilitearmilite Member Posts: 35,490 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I still listen to them
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  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by discusdad
    st louis, kmox
    san antonio woai i think.... chicago couldn't get the east coast stations much.



    kmox, kwk, kxok





    quote:Originally posted by tccox
    I am trying to remember the station that had the xmitter in Mexico that broadcast all over the US. Seems like they were 100KW and had to be in Mexico because they were too powerful to broadcast in the US. Tom



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9xjw
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  • themountainmanthemountainman Member Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My mother would read us nice quiet stories after The Shadow scared us where we couldn't go to sleep. Only The Shadow Knows.....WNOX Knoxville TN
    There are 3 kinds of people in the world. Those who can do math and those who can't. :?
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  • perry shooterperry shooter Member Posts: 17,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    wcky OHIO wowo Fort wayne IND. 10 X 12 glossy Picture suitable for framing if you buy a record.
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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,092 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Old-Colts
    Listening in my car to Wolfman Jack, XERF AM in Ciudad Acu?a, Mexico.



    Bingo! we have a winner!
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
    Margaret Thatcher

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
    Mark Twain
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,159 ******
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by 1911a1-fan
    quote:Originally posted by discusdad
    st louis, kmox
    san antonio woai i think.... chicago couldn't get the east coast stations much.



    kmox, kwk, kxok








    [/quote]Yep,I remember them well,,,[^][^][^][^]
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  • Marc1301Marc1301 Member Posts: 31,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by spasmcreek
    goat gland Brinkley ...sold patent medicines by the number to cure ills...ran for kansas givernor, had a radio staion in del rio texas..that covered a lot of America..finally got radio license yanked and put it across the river ..broadcasting over a large part of America..got rich...quack quack

    That would have been XER-AM which was referenced in a ZZ Top song (Heard It On The X)

    "We can all thank Doctor B who stepped across the line. With lots of watts he took control, the first one of its kind."
    "Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here." - William Shatner
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  • LesWVaLesWVa Member Posts: 10,490 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Use to connect a wire to a an AM radios antenna and wrap it around an extension cord plugged into an outlet. Remember many stations that we could pick up that way. The two I enjoyed best was Radio Mystery Theater and one that was like it with cowboys and shoot outs. Like listening to a TV with all of the sound effects and no picture. Cant remember exactly what the stations were but a lot of different music stations.

    West Virgina is still home to a lot of AM radio stations. I like the one in Randolph county best and listen to it when we are at the cabin. It's operated like an old time radio station. Most of the music they play is preformed live in the studio by local people who play old time Bluegrass and Country.
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  • 11b6r11b6r Member Posts: 16,584 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    XERA and XERF- you did not need a radio. 500 KW output (they claimed one million watts) you could pick up the station with a barbed wire fence.
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  • GuvamintCheeseGuvamintCheese Member Posts: 38,932 ✭
    edited November -1
    WPAR. Parkersburg WV.
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  • 1BigGuy1BigGuy Member Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by HandLoad
    Used to be able to hear KGO Waaaaay out at Sea, Days before making port.


    I could pick KGO up in Washington state at night.
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  • notnownotnow Member Posts: 1,856 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey Les. There's a station out of Lost Creek/ Weston at 96.3 FM that plays Bluegrass all through the day. Different syndicated bluegrass series'. I never knew there was such a thing. In the evening they revert back to older top 40 crap. WOTR is the call ltrs. The thing is I live a long way away, Just north of Morgantown about 20 miles. I only pick it up on the hilltops around here but for me it's better than most other stations. And yeah, I used to try to get the far away stations too. WLS from Chicago, Called itself "the voice of labor". WOWO from Fort Wayne Ind. WWVA was local for me but it was good. I picked up an Alabama station on time in the winter and they were flippin' out about the snow that was coming. This would have been in the 60's. When the weather is unsettled those signals can travel a long way. Tropospheric ducting was what I was told it was called.
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  • Wild TurkeyWild Turkey Member Posts: 2,425 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    KOMA in Oklahoma City was our "clear channel" station. At sundown, usually in the middle of a song I liked, the local station would cut power and it was time to switch.

    We could see the lights of the antennas at night but not pick up the station.

    Made it rough when there were tornadoes in the area (in the days before TV radar) but KOMA would report on storms in their area -- some of which were 500 miles away from us.

    And then there were the "truck driving" stations in the wee hours . . .
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  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I lived in Tennessee when I was a kid and we could pick up WOWO out of Fort Wayne, IN loud and clear.
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  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,770 ******
    edited November -1
    Buc buc buc buc.....It's Chicken Man....He's Everywhere![:D]
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  • Spider7115Spider7115 Member Posts: 29,704 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I drove from Dallas, Texas to Upstate NY in 1972 and listened to WLS radio out of Chicago the entire way. I heard "American Pie" 14 times!
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  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,526 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    As a kid, I kept a transistor radio, under my pillow, like most kids. Late at night, I was listen to the baseball games. It took me to another world. After the game, The grand ole Opry was turned on. That was my favorite station. If I couldn't get that station, I would search for Wolf man Jack or Doctor Demento and listen to the rock stations. Most of my friends grew up listening to hard rock, while I was listening to Patsy Cline and George Jones. They all thought I was the odd one, when I could sing every Mills brothers song and Patsy Cline song. Most had never heard of them. I should have been born in the 40's. To this day, "Cab Driver", is my favorite song[^] Oakie
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  • gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290 ✭
    edited November -1
    Don't remember the call letters, but there was a station between Tulsa and Amarillo that was so homespun!
    Offering tips on Kitchen Taxidermy, Corn Monkey recipes, Uncle Saul's adventures in the john, bluegrass music, how to pull your own teeth while driving without spilling the beer between your legs, the funniest public service announcements by Miss Ida Know, random patter by Gonnen Dunnitt; reminded me of Firesign Theater!
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  • woodshed87woodshed87 Member Posts: 23,478 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thats Why I Always Liked Working 160 Meter ham Radio Nightime DX
    On a Long wire Antennae[;)]
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  • minitruck83minitruck83 Member Posts: 5,369
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by TangoSierra
    Used to listen to WWL out of New Orleans back then when I was on the road at night. Great Country Western music. Catered to over the road truckers mostly.


    Charlie Douglas and the road gang. Couldn't pick em up till late night with the little transistor, but they rolled in loud and clear bout midnight.
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  • Heavy ChevyHeavy Chevy Member Posts: 736 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Wild Turkey
    KOMA in Oklahoma City was our "clear channel" station. At sundown, usually in the middle of a song I liked, the local station would cut power and it was time to switch.

    KOMA was also our favorite! We could only get it to come in at night.
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Alpine
    quote:Originally posted by Old-Colts
    Listening in my car to Wolfman Jack, XERF AM in Ciudad Acu?a, Mexico.



    Bingo! we have a winner!


    The one I was going to post.

    quote:XHRF-FM is a radio station in Ciudad Acu?a, Coahuila. It gained fame on the AM band as XERF-AM, a Mexican clear-channel station on 1570 kHz and a 250-kilowatt border blaster owned by Ram?n D. Bosquez and Arturo Gonz?lez, used by famed disc jockey Wolfman Jack. Now branded as 'La Poderosa, it is owned by the Instituto Mexicano de la Radio (IMER), a Mexican public broadcaster.
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  • TooBigTooBig Member Posts: 28,559 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    KOMA #3 Midwest best and I think 710 am KC daytime
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  • Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 40,180 ***** Forums Admin
    edited November -1
    KGA Spokane

    CFUN Vancover BC

    Salt Lake City, don't remember the call sign.
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