Brad Savage is one of the nicest guys in radio. Glad his passion project caught on and KSKO helped make that happen!
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Ever get anything from a station besides an email reply?
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I've had half a dozen people in McGrath unbeknownst to each other asking the same thing... all ask something along the lines of "What were you doing on the air over the weekend? (We carry CTD Sat at 2pm, Sun at 5pm) and i was puzzled, cuse i said.. Oh a promo, etc.. no it was a show.
They all thought Brad was me. Brad and I have alot of the same voice mannerisms, tone, inflection and excitement in our voices .. and the same passion for radio. He sounds more like me than my dopple ganger on the old Country Legends 97.1 in Houston, TX did where even my dad thought that guy sounded a bit like me.
I was on the phone with Brad a few weeks ago and he broke out laughing and said "Even I can hear it now that were on the phone for a bit"
In the late 70s, use to collect radio station bumper stickers and had them affixed to the plastic cover on top of my LP player.
Wrote to a major AM distant Top 40 station requesting a sticker and told them I would tell all my friends to listen, etc., no response.
But, writing to another area FM, they sent me a big cardboard poster with the presidents on Mt. Rushmore wearing headphones! The station also sent me the FM's bumper stickers.
I get why some won't respond, so also stopped writing. A fools errand today, if anyone is even at the station to open mail.
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Now, that's a cool poster!
I sent off to CRI for a QSL when I was about 12, and got monthly magazines of Chinese propaganda from them for years afterwards! When our family moved, we obviously didn't tell the Chinese, and yet the magazines moved with us. They only stopped when I moved out on my own - which I also didn't tell CRI... 🕵️♂️
Then again, Beijing (indirectly) pays my salary these days, so.
I had the same experience at about 2 years older with what was then called Radio Peking. The magazines, the newspapers, even a copy of Mao's Red Book. They stopped after a year or so, on their own. Peking Review was the publication I recall best, printed on very thin paper, full of Communist invective against the officials targeted by Mao in the Great Cultural Revolution, Liu Shao-Chi first and foremost. The late '60s were a fascinating, turbulent, scary time, and shortwave listening was something that took up every spare hour possible -- the ones that weren't occupied with school or baseball, that is.
Yes, it definitely was. In some ways, I'm almost sorry i wasn't around then to experience it.
Everyone old enough to have remembered and experienced SW back then got lucky. Those of us trying to listen now have to scramble for the few crumbs that are left.
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Those of us old enough to remember the Sixties are happier not having to relive some aspects of that decade. Fun times like Air Raid ("Duck and Cover") drills, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, or the JFK assassination.
In the mid and later 60's, one of my stations in Ecuador was on 805 kilocycles and nobody else in the Americas used that frequency. I got lots of reception reports, with lots from North America and many from England and Europe and also from NZ and Australia.
Eventually, I got it moved to 810 to minimize interference from TWR in the Caribbean, but for a while every week brought a couple of reception reports.
My firm did an extensive rebuild of a longstanding AM in Michigan in the late 80s, and in the middle of it, the station engineer was dismissed. Ownership asked us to keep the station and the sister FM on the air and in good order while they sought a replacement.
They hired a guy after a few months, but he would only do studio stuff....so, the project on the AM was finished, but still remaining was nearly two more years of responsibility for the TX plants.
I used to get handed the DX reports for the AM, and since I was paid by the hour, I answered them. Virtually all were during the night pattern, up, over and beyond the north pole. I would send lots of station bling along with the confirmation. I'm not sure the fine DXers of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Germany appreciated the items given the station's format, but, heck, I tried. I even kept a pin-stick map in their engineering office. Damned if it didn't match the night pattern nearly to the degree. What a great job on the AM rebuild! 😜
It was enough fun that since then, if the opportunity presented itself, I've always continued to ask client station tech staff about the practice. It tapered, and before retirement a few years ago, I found that most of the (to me) younger station engineers never heard of the practice.
Although I wouldn't be so irascible as to say it's not 1979 anymore, the general concept applies. There appears, from my nonscientific polling, to be less and less DX reports over the years. There aren't many HF stations to listen to anymore, and I just don't think the the DX hobby is anywhere near as prevalent as it once was.
So, since engineering staff are no longer the characteristic ham-operator-turned-station-engineer of the past, with consolidations with cookie-cutter operations and reduced budgets, and a resultant generally less-than-friendly individual outreach to listeners, I guess the "1979" comment actually applies.
They hired a guy after a few months, but he would only do studio stuff....so, the project on the AM was finished, but still remaining was nearly two more years of responsibility for the TX plants.
I used to get handed the DX reports for the AM, and since I was paid by the hour, I answered them. Virtually all were during the night pattern, up, over and beyond the north pole. I would send lots of station bling along with the confirmation. I'm not sure the fine DXers of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Germany appreciated the items given the station's format, but, heck, I tried. I even kept a pin-stick map in their engineering office. Damned if it didn't match the night pattern nearly to the degree. What a great job on the AM rebuild! 😜
It was enough fun that since then, if the opportunity presented itself, I've always continued to ask client station tech staff about the practice. It tapered, and before retirement a few years ago, I found that most of the (to me) younger station engineers never heard of the practice.
Although I wouldn't be so irascible as to say it's not 1979 anymore, the general concept applies. There appears, from my nonscientific polling, to be less and less DX reports over the years. There aren't many HF stations to listen to anymore, and I just don't think the the DX hobby is anywhere near as prevalent as it once was.
So, since engineering staff are no longer the characteristic ham-operator-turned-station-engineer of the past, with consolidations with cookie-cutter operations and reduced budgets, and a resultant generally less-than-friendly individual outreach to listeners, I guess the "1979" comment actually applies.
One of the best collections of radio bumper stickers I've ever seen was in the studio set backgrounds of the latter-year episodes of WKRP In Cincinnati.
I wonder what ever happened to that collection.....😪
Not exactly on topic, but I remember hearing about a tropo event when Howard Stern's flagship was K-Rock in NYC. Another 92.3 was interfering with K-Rock's local signal, and Howard even mentioned it on the air.
How did you reply to the reception reports? Did you have any "swag" to send back then?
I didn't know anything about Cuba when I was 7, mainly because I hardly ever watched the news when my parents had it on. The only times I ever watched anything but children's programming, game shows, and Ed Sullivan and Jackie Gleason on Sunday nights (a family tradition) was when NASA would launch rockets. I think I watched every one of them, from Shepard right through the Apollo years. However, I was very aware of JFK's assassination the very next year, mainly because there was nothing but coverage of it and its aftermath on network TV for days afterward.
The late '60s went from "fascinating" to "scary" for me in the '70s -- 1973, to be exact -- when I had to register with the Selective Service and make sure my college grades were good enough to keep me out of Vietnam!
Good question.
On The Office, behind Dwight, as he faces the camera, is a sticker for a real-life oldies station in the Scranton area: Froggy XXX..
I e-mail KBSZ to see just in case
Never got a reply back
Every AM station in the world seems to say "and we've even been picked up in Finland!". I always wonder if it's the same DX-mad Finn picking up all these stations, or if Finland is just full of DXers.
I recall there were some "splits" that I could DX living in the southeast US. Some that come to mind back in the day I've heard were Radio Cayman on 1205 and 1555, a radio station in Belize on 834, St. Kitts at 555 and one on Turks and Caicos Island (Caribbean Christian Radio) for a while at 1025 khz. I'm sure there were others in the western hemisphere, not sure why they used the oddball frequencies when most of that region used 10khz channel spacing.
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