Re: [AMRadio] (no subject)

2006-01-24 Thread Todd, KA1KAQ
On 1/23/06, ne1s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 It was like being caught in a time warp. Some of my fondest childhood
 memories are of hanging out in my grandfather's cellar in Chatham, NJ
 building, fixing or otherwise diddling with some radio with WABC cranking
 the tunes.

I used to enjoy listening to big band music on 830 WCRN out of
Worcester/Framingham area but they went to an oldies format sometime
last year. I like oldies too, but it's hard to find 40s type music on
AM these days so I miss WCRN in that sense. At 50kw, they have a
potent signal up this way. You might give them a try too.

There was also a station over in NY that played big band music a few
years ago, but they got bought up by Disney and ended up playing
children's music and soundtracks from Disney movies. Think it was
WQEW? Up near the top of the dial.

It's always more enjoyable to hear some old music on AM broadcast
rather than more talk radio, but to me at least, there's nothing like
hearing some Glenn Miller or Tommy Dorsey tunes rumbling out of a big
old speaker with the receiver dials and tubes glowing away.

Thanks for passing this on, Larry - I'll have to fire up that SX-28A
in the front foyer that you were tuning around with in December - bet
it'll sound great, WABC always comes in here well. (o:

de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ


Re: [AMRadio] (no subject)

2006-01-24 Thread George KB2Z
I thought it was WABeatlesC, with Vic Morrow or Cousin Brucie and you 
only heard the News at 5 to, and 25 past the hour.



At 09:36 AM 1/24/06, you wrote:

On 1/23/06, ne1s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 It was like being caught in a time warp. Some of my fondest childhood
 memories are of hanging out in my grandfather's cellar in Chatham, NJ
 building, fixing or otherwise diddling with some radio with WABC cranking
 the tunes.

I used to enjoy listening to big band music on 830 WCRN out of
Worcester/Framingham area but they went to an oldies format sometime
last year. I like oldies too, but it's hard to find 40s type music on
AM these days so I miss WCRN in that sense. At 50kw, they have a
potent signal up this way. You might give them a try too.

There was also a station over in NY that played big band music a few
years ago, but they got bought up by Disney and ended up playing
children's music and soundtracks from Disney movies. Think it was
WQEW? Up near the top of the dial.

It's always more enjoyable to hear some old music on AM broadcast
rather than more talk radio, but to me at least, there's nothing like
hearing some Glenn Miller or Tommy Dorsey tunes rumbling out of a big
old speaker with the receiver dials and tubes glowing away.

Thanks for passing this on, Larry - I'll have to fire up that SX-28A
in the front foyer that you were tuning around with in December - bet
it'll sound great, WABC always comes in here well. (o:

de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ
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Re: [AMRadio] (no subject)

2006-01-24 Thread crawfish
Vic Morrow was on Combat, It was Cousin Brucie (Morrow). I remember the
WABeatlesC, trying to compete with Murray the K at WINS, who called himse;f
the Fifth Beatle.
  Joe W4AAB
- Original Message -
From: George KB2Z [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] (no subject)


 I thought it was WABeatlesC, with Vic Morrow or Cousin Brucie and you
 only heard the News at 5 to, and 25 past the hour.


 At 09:36 AM 1/24/06, you wrote:
 On 1/23/06, ne1s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
   It was like being caught in a time warp. Some of my fondest childhood
   memories are of hanging out in my grandfather's cellar in Chatham, NJ
   building, fixing or otherwise diddling with some radio with WABC
cranking
   the tunes.
 
 I used to enjoy listening to big band music on 830 WCRN out of
 Worcester/Framingham area but they went to an oldies format sometime
 last year. I like oldies too, but it's hard to find 40s type music on
 AM these days so I miss WCRN in that sense. At 50kw, they have a
 potent signal up this way. You might give them a try too.
 
 There was also a station over in NY that played big band music a few
 years ago, but they got bought up by Disney and ended up playing
 children's music and soundtracks from Disney movies. Think it was
 WQEW? Up near the top of the dial.
 
 It's always more enjoyable to hear some old music on AM broadcast
 rather than more talk radio, but to me at least, there's nothing like
 hearing some Glenn Miller or Tommy Dorsey tunes rumbling out of a big
 old speaker with the receiver dials and tubes glowing away.
 
 Thanks for passing this on, Larry - I'll have to fire up that SX-28A
 in the front foyer that you were tuning around with in December - bet
 it'll sound great, WABC always comes in here well. (o:
 
 de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ
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[AMRadio] Music from the 40s

2006-01-24 Thread W1EOF
Todd -

I know it doesn't sound the same as those 6V6's pushing your speaker, but
there are streaming alternatives on the internet. Somebody said that WABC
streams although I have not checked out their website. There are also quite
a few on live365.com. My favorite though is WMKV in Ohio. Pretty much 24/7
40s style music. Lastly there is XM radio which has a channel devoted to 40s
music.

I don't have a good AM broadcast receiver setup in the office at the moment
but I will soon. I should be able to get WABC here in RI most nights.

73,

Mark W1EOF

 -Original Message-
 From: Todd, KA1KAQ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:37 AM
 To: Discussion of AM Radio
 Subject: Re: [AMRadio] (no subject)


 On 1/23/06, ne1s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  It was like being caught in a time warp. Some of my fondest childhood
  memories are of hanging out in my grandfather's cellar in Chatham, NJ
  building, fixing or otherwise diddling with some radio with
 WABC cranking
  the tunes.

 I used to enjoy listening to big band music on 830 WCRN out of
 Worcester/Framingham area but they went to an oldies format sometime
 last year. I like oldies too, but it's hard to find 40s type music on
 AM these days so I miss WCRN in that sense. At 50kw, they have a
 potent signal up this way. You might give them a try too.

 There was also a station over in NY that played big band music a few
 years ago, but they got bought up by Disney and ended up playing
 children's music and soundtracks from Disney movies. Think it was
 WQEW? Up near the top of the dial.

 It's always more enjoyable to hear some old music on AM broadcast
 rather than more talk radio, but to me at least, there's nothing like
 hearing some Glenn Miller or Tommy Dorsey tunes rumbling out of a big
 old speaker with the receiver dials and tubes glowing away.

 Thanks for passing this on, Larry - I'll have to fire up that SX-28A
 in the front foyer that you were tuning around with in December - bet
 it'll sound great, WABC always comes in here well. (o:

 de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ
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Re: [AMRadio] Music from the 40s

2006-01-24 Thread Mark Foltarz
Similarly, there is a small station in Chardon, Ohio with a web feed : 
http://www.wkhr.org/

de KA4JVY

Mark



--- W1EOF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Todd -
 
 I know it doesn't sound the same as those 6V6's pushing your speaker, but
 there are streaming alternatives on the internet. Somebody said that WABC
 streams although I have not checked out their website. There are also quite
 a few on live365.com. My favorite though is WMKV in Ohio. Pretty much 24/7
 40s style music. Lastly there is XM radio which has a channel devoted to 40s
 music.
 
 I don't have a good AM broadcast receiver setup in the office at the moment
 but I will soon. I should be able to get WABC here in RI most nights.
 
 73,
 
 Mark W1EOF
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Todd, KA1KAQ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:37 AM
  To: Discussion of AM Radio
  Subject: Re: [AMRadio] (no subject)
 
 
  On 1/23/06, ne1s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
   It was like being caught in a time warp. Some of my fondest childhood
   memories are of hanging out in my grandfather's cellar in Chatham, NJ
   building, fixing or otherwise diddling with some radio with
  WABC cranking
   the tunes.
 
  I used to enjoy listening to big band music on 830 WCRN out of
  Worcester/Framingham area but they went to an oldies format sometime
  last year. I like oldies too, but it's hard to find 40s type music on
  AM these days so I miss WCRN in that sense. At 50kw, they have a
  potent signal up this way. You might give them a try too.
 
  There was also a station over in NY that played big band music a few
  years ago, but they got bought up by Disney and ended up playing
  children's music and soundtracks from Disney movies. Think it was
  WQEW? Up near the top of the dial.
 
  It's always more enjoyable to hear some old music on AM broadcast
  rather than more talk radio, but to me at least, there's nothing like
  hearing some Glenn Miller or Tommy Dorsey tunes rumbling out of a big
  old speaker with the receiver dials and tubes glowing away.
 
  Thanks for passing this on, Larry - I'll have to fire up that SX-28A
  in the front foyer that you were tuning around with in December - bet
  it'll sound great, WABC always comes in here well. (o:
 
  de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ
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Re: [AMRadio] Music from the 40s

2006-01-24 Thread Bob Bruhns
I often hear 40s and early 50s music on CBC Toronto 740
AM.  (Used to be CBL Toronto.)

  Bacon, WA3WDR


- Original Message - 
From: W1EOF [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Discussion of AM Radio amradio@mailman.qth.net;
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:34 PM
Subject: [AMRadio] Music from the 40s


 Todd -

 I know it doesn't sound the same as those 6V6's
pushing your speaker, but
 there are streaming alternatives on the internet.
Somebody said that WABC
 streams although I have not checked out their
website. There are also quite
 a few on live365.com. My favorite though is WMKV in
Ohio. Pretty much 24/7
 40s style music. Lastly there is XM radio which has a
channel devoted to 40s
 music.

 I don't have a good AM broadcast receiver setup in
the office at the moment
 but I will soon. I should be able to get WABC here in
RI most nights.

 73,

 Mark W1EOF

  -Original Message-
  From: Todd, KA1KAQ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:37 AM
  To: Discussion of AM Radio
  Subject: Re: [AMRadio] (no subject)
 
 
  On 1/23/06, ne1s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
   It was like being caught in a time warp. Some of
my fondest childhood
   memories are of hanging out in my grandfather's
cellar in Chatham, NJ
   building, fixing or otherwise diddling with some
radio with
  WABC cranking
   the tunes.
 
  I used to enjoy listening to big band music on 830
WCRN out of
  Worcester/Framingham area but they went to an
oldies format sometime
  last year. I like oldies too, but it's hard to find
40s type music on
  AM these days so I miss WCRN in that sense. At
50kw, they have a
  potent signal up this way. You might give them a
try too.
 
  There was also a station over in NY that played big
band music a few
  years ago, but they got bought up by Disney and
ended up playing
  children's music and soundtracks from Disney
movies. Think it was
  WQEW? Up near the top of the dial.
 
  It's always more enjoyable to hear some old music
on AM broadcast
  rather than more talk radio, but to me at least,
there's nothing like
  hearing some Glenn Miller or Tommy Dorsey tunes
rumbling out of a big
  old speaker with the receiver dials and tubes
glowing away.
 
  Thanks for passing this on, Larry - I'll have to
fire up that SX-28A
  in the front foyer that you were tuning around with
in December - bet
  it'll sound great, WABC always comes in here well.
(o:
 
  de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ
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RE: [AMRadio] Music from the 40s

2006-01-24 Thread Bob Peters
Hate to say this here but XM has a great 40's channel as well as a 50's
and 60's...Get it right here on the WW Web  Hi  !!!  I do love it in the
car but in the 50's it was great to listen to all the SW stations on the
good old Gonset Super 6 converter...Were has life gone...

Bob w1PE

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Foltarz
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 4:56 PM
To: Discussion of AM Radio
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Music from the 40s

Similarly, there is a small station in Chardon, Ohio with a web feed : 
http://www.wkhr.org/

de KA4JVY

Mark



--- W1EOF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Todd -
 
 I know it doesn't sound the same as those 6V6's pushing your speaker,
but
 there are streaming alternatives on the internet. Somebody said that
WABC
 streams although I have not checked out their website. There are also
quite
 a few on live365.com. My favorite though is WMKV in Ohio. Pretty much
24/7
 40s style music. Lastly there is XM radio which has a channel devoted
to 40s
 music.
 
 I don't have a good AM broadcast receiver setup in the office at the
moment
 but I will soon. I should be able to get WABC here in RI most nights.
 
 73,
 
 Mark W1EOF
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Todd, KA1KAQ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:37 AM
  To: Discussion of AM Radio
  Subject: Re: [AMRadio] (no subject)
 
 
  On 1/23/06, ne1s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
   It was like being caught in a time warp. Some of my fondest
childhood
   memories are of hanging out in my grandfather's cellar in Chatham,
NJ
   building, fixing or otherwise diddling with some radio with
  WABC cranking
   the tunes.
 
  I used to enjoy listening to big band music on 830 WCRN out of
  Worcester/Framingham area but they went to an oldies format sometime
  last year. I like oldies too, but it's hard to find 40s type music
on
  AM these days so I miss WCRN in that sense. At 50kw, they have a
  potent signal up this way. You might give them a try too.
 
  There was also a station over in NY that played big band music a few
  years ago, but they got bought up by Disney and ended up playing
  children's music and soundtracks from Disney movies. Think it was
  WQEW? Up near the top of the dial.
 
  It's always more enjoyable to hear some old music on AM broadcast
  rather than more talk radio, but to me at least, there's nothing
like
  hearing some Glenn Miller or Tommy Dorsey tunes rumbling out of a
big
  old speaker with the receiver dials and tubes glowing away.
 
  Thanks for passing this on, Larry - I'll have to fire up that SX-28A
  in the front foyer that you were tuning around with in December -
bet
  it'll sound great, WABC always comes in here well. (o:
 
  de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ
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[AMRadio] AMRadio] Music from the 40s

2006-01-24 Thread w6om

Two more sources for old music is 

www.itunes.com  works with Mac or PC

www.surfmusic.de  World wide streaming music from many countries

Enjoy

 
 From: Mark Foltarz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: 2006/01/24 Tue PM 05:55:52 EST
 To: Discussion of AM Radio amradio@mailman.qth.net
 Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Music from the 40s
 
 Similarly, there is a small station in Chardon, Ohio with a web feed : 
 http://www.wkhr.org/
 
 de KA4JVY
 
 Mark
 
 
 
 --- W1EOF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Todd -
  
  I know it doesn't sound the same as those 6V6's pushing your speaker, but
  there are streaming alternatives on the internet. Somebody said that WABC
  streams although I have not checked out their website. There are also quite
  a few on live365.com. My favorite though is WMKV in Ohio. Pretty much 24/7
  40s style music. Lastly there is XM radio which has a channel devoted to 40s
  music.
  
  I don't have a good AM broadcast receiver setup in the office at the moment
  but I will soon. I should be able to get WABC here in RI most nights.
  
  73,
  
  Mark W1EOF
  
   -Original Message-
   From: Todd, KA1KAQ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:37 AM
   To: Discussion of AM Radio
   Subject: Re: [AMRadio] (no subject)
  
  
   On 1/23/06, ne1s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
It was like being caught in a time warp. Some of my fondest childhood
memories are of hanging out in my grandfather's cellar in Chatham, NJ
building, fixing or otherwise diddling with some radio with
   WABC cranking
the tunes.
  
   I used to enjoy listening to big band music on 830 WCRN out of
   Worcester/Framingham area but they went to an oldies format sometime
   last year. I like oldies too, but it's hard to find 40s type music on
   AM these days so I miss WCRN in that sense. At 50kw, they have a
   potent signal up this way. You might give them a try too.
  
   There was also a station over in NY that played big band music a few
   years ago, but they got bought up by Disney and ended up playing
   children's music and soundtracks from Disney movies. Think it was
   WQEW? Up near the top of the dial.
  
   It's always more enjoyable to hear some old music on AM broadcast
   rather than more talk radio, but to me at least, there's nothing like
   hearing some Glenn Miller or Tommy Dorsey tunes rumbling out of a big
   old speaker with the receiver dials and tubes glowing away.
  
   Thanks for passing this on, Larry - I'll have to fire up that SX-28A
   in the front foyer that you were tuning around with in December - bet
   it'll sound great, WABC always comes in here well. (o:
  
   de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ
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[AMRadio] Re: WABC oldies show

2006-01-24 Thread ne1s
Hi Chuck  list, 

I think the show is from 7-10PM, or maybe 8-10PM, EST, Saturday nite. And 
yes, they play the old jingles too. (I think you can download .wav files of 
many of the jingles from http://www.musicradio77.com/) 

You should have no problem hearing them. People were calling in from as far 
away as Georgia and Chicago (under the shadow of WBBM at 780, even). 

-Larry/NE1S 


Chuck Kembring writes:

Larry...
Thanks for that post.  When I was a kid in Philadelphia, hanging on the
corner with the crowd, I would often listen to Seventy - Seven, Double U -
A - B - See! when the conditions were right.  I can still hear that Jingle
in my head!  (Almost 60 years old - Next April)
I will give a listen and see if I can hear it out here in Southern 
Chester
County (Pa.)
Ah, - The good old days
73,
Chuck   WB3LGG
Cochranville, Pa.


[AMRadio] Re: GB Re: 770 WABC Real Radio show

2006-01-24 Thread ne1s
Hi again, Kim  lists, 

Yes, I found them on a trip out to the AWA conference (Rochester NY) a few 
years back. They often come in well here in Maine, after dark of course. As 
does WKBW (or is it WWKB :)) in Buffalo. 

Both great stations, for sure. 


73,
-Larry/NE1S 



Kim Herron writes:

Hi Larry!!
Well, if nobody else has yet informed you, put on your list of AM 
radio to be sought after, AM 740 CHWO,
out of Toronto Canada.  They run the similar format all week long.  Its a 
combination of Big Band, Solid Gold,
50's and 60's rock and roll,  Pop (Sinatra, Dean Martin etc) and so on.  
They even run an all request night.  They
 go omni-directional after sundown and I get them gang busters here in 
Western Michigan.  They run the same format
all day as well I believe, But I can't get them to know for sure. 

 




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[AMRadio] Music from the 40's

2006-01-24 Thread Harry Vaught

www.kcea.org

Click on the radio to listen.  

Big band music all the time.  Also, old time radio programs, I believe, at 9:00 
pm PST Mondays.

Good quality sound for this kind of music at 64 KBPS MP3.

Harry, KT4AE
Maryville, Tennessee



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Re: [AMRadio] (no subject)

2006-01-24 Thread Phil Galasso

- Original Message -
There was also a station over in NY that played big band music a few
years ago, but they got bought up by Disney and ended up playing
children's music and soundtracks from Disney movies. Think it was
WQEW? Up near the top of the dial.

WQEW runs 50 kW on 1560 kHz and it switched from classical to adult
standards/big band music in December, 1992, around the time that Michael
Bloomberg bought WNEW and switched it to an all-business news format under
the call letters WBBR. Disney leased (and later bought) WQEW from the New
York Times Corporation, converting it to the New York outlet for the Radio
Disney children's network around 1998. WQEW began operation in 1936 as
W2XR, an experimental high fidelity AM station on 1550 kHz. The call letters
were changed to WQXR when the station began commercial operation several
years later (the uppercase Q looks like the number 2 in script, so they
preserved some of the original call letters) and the classical format
continued until December, 1992. WQXR-FM is the oldest commercial FM station
in New York, beginning operations as experimental W2XQR on 45.9 MHz in 1940
and becoming commercial W59NY in 1941. Around the end of World War II, the
call letters on 45.9 became WQXQ and the new WQXR-FM began broadcasting on
its present frequency of 96.3 MHz. The call letters are now WQXR (without
the -FM suffix), the station is still owned by the New York Times, and it
is New York's only commercial classical music station.

Disney also killed an excellent big band station in Mt. Holly, NJ, WWJZ on
640 kHz. It is now the Radio Disney outlet for Philadelphia. When one of the
principals of WWJZ died some years ago, a dispute among the remaining owners
resulted in the sale of the station to Disney. In the daytime, WWJZ can be
heard well into the Delmarva Peninsula. What a waste of a great signal!

I am glad to hear the oldies program on WABC and I lament the general lack
of music programming on AM. In New York, the AM band is a wasteland of
time-brokered ethnic and foreign language programming, paid religious
broadcasts, and talk shows, with two all-news stations owned by the same
company (Infinity Broadcasting, now CBS). So much for editorial diversity!

The hottest place in Hell should be reserved for New York Mayor Michael
Bloomberg for killing WNEW and replacing it with an excruciatingly
B-O-R-I-N-G business news outlet. I grew up listening to that station and
its potent signal on 1130 kHz was my constant companion. When Bloomberg
bought that station, he consigned thousands of vintage recordings to the
Dumpster, including a lot of early Frank Sinatra records and old airchecks.
Those are irreplaceable. WNEW is the station that gave Frank Sinatra his
start. It was also the birthplace of the disc jockey. Variety magazine
coined that term in reference to Martin Block, who played records on his
Make Believe Ballroom program because WNEW, a small independent station at
the time, could not afford to retain a house orchestra full time.

Regarding Mr. Bloomberg: Y'mach sh'mo v'zichrono!

Phil Galasso
K2PG



Re: [AMRadio] Music from the 40s

2006-01-24 Thread Phil Galasso

- Original Message -

 I often hear 40s and early 50s music on CBC Toronto 740
 AM.  (Used to be CBL Toronto.)

The CBC does not own the 740 kHz outlet in Toronto anymore. CBL moved to FM
several years ago and is now CBLA on 99.1 MHz. The CRTC (Canada's equivalent
of our FCC, but concerned strictly with broadcasting matters) required the
CBC to vacate 740 kHz if they wanted to move the CBC Radio One service to
FM. The station on 740 is CHWO and it does play excellent music. CHWO keeps
me company during my long Sunday night drives from New Jersey to my new home
in Pennsylvania.

Phil Galasso
K2PG



[AMRadio] Propogation Report for Saturday

2006-01-24 Thread Mike Duke, K5XU
Go ahead and plan to clean the garage, wash the car, straighten the sock 
drawer, etc this Saturday, especially if you are within normal upper band 
range of Mississippi.

Why?

Because I am installing a new A3 tribander, and should be ready to test it 
near noon.

My 36 years of experience says that there is an almost certain guarantee of 
dead bands whenever I attempt to test a new antenna.



Mike Duke, K5XU
American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs