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1530 DX Help Requested in the NE PA Aisle

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Steve_Green

Like Jean Shepherd would say, 'I'm this kid, see? And I'm housepainting in an empty home for some Pabst money. The house is a Courier-Ives 1949 Levittown Taj Mahal, give or take an egg nog. Coordnates situate the dwelling at halfway between Hazleton PA and Pottsville PA. And there's this radio I drag along, FM antenna askew, on-off switch retarded. But it's still a gleaming, magnificent GE Superadio II .....'

Past few days, with me trying to be as clinical a worker as possible, painting a flippin' BASEMENT with my four eyes, 1530 has kicked up some curious and distracting DX in the early afternoon. Perhaps you folks can help me out with a couple of hints -- and maybe one especially peculiar catch.

I null WCKY and its ESPN sports stuff. The time is between 3 and 4:30 PM. There's this faint country station in the brew, which I swear today I heard ID as '670', as though dismissing entirely its obviously illegitimate 1530 outlet. Once an hour some Oldies station (MD?) surfaces with the Shoop Shoop Song. And then there's a loud Spanish-language station in the mix (I think he said 'North Carolina') which sounds South Amercan in rooting and has a jock on mic who makes Jackson Armstrong sound comatose. Wow, what energy!

But then .....

There's this one 1530 signal which for the past few days has featured some fellow talking for hours about Custer's Last Stand. Today he again was extolling strategy and warrior courage.

That's the station I want to peg. Who is on 1530, during afternoon drive, offering not weather and traffic but some sort of fixated ministry about the Battle of Little Big Horn?

Is this some 1530 station stunting?
 
You may have heard WLLQ near Raleigh, NC and WCTR in Chestertown, MD, east the Chesapeake Bay. This is all I can think of.
 
WLLQ 1370 is a Spanish station in Lillington NC.
Last I heard 1530 was a Spanish station (they used to be WRTP but I can't remember their letters right now) owned by the same owners, I'm pretty sure.

Now google says 1530 is WLLQ Durham. 1370 is WLLN Lillington NC.
So that must be it. :D
 
The one with Little Big Horn might be WDJZ in Connecticut.
They lease time their schedule, but there isn't one on their website.
wdjzradio.com
 
I was just going to post something about a station I've heard often on 1530 late at night. (I'm in Iowa, not too close to northeastern PA.) Where I used to regularly pick up WCKY from Cincinnati, for quite a while I've heard only what I'd describe as heavy-duty religion -- fire-and-brimstone sounding stuff that people from the coasts probably think people in the Midwest listen to all the time. Anyway, I checked WCKY's lineup, and it looks as though they carry ESPN programming throughout the night. Any idea what I might be hearing?
 
It sounds weird, but it might be WCKY.
I used to hear Brother Stair on 1530 out driving late at night here in NC when it was WSAI and all the other call letters. It sounds weird for him to be on an ESPN station, so I checked around.
Brother Stair apparently thinks he's still on there.
ftp://www.overcomerministry.org/RadioSchedule/AM Radio Stations.htm
Wikipedia still thinks WCKY is continuing the late-night religious programming.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCKY_(AM)
The WCKY entry was updated 12/10/10.
And someone on this forum says he was still on last summer.
http://xmfan.biz/viewtopic.php?t=46250&start=30
So it's probably still WCKY. :)
 
I can verify that Brother Stair and other religious programming is frequently broadcast on WCKY-1530 between 1 AM and 5 AM most mornings.
 
Thanks to a tip from Jerry Bond in Rochester NY, it seems that the 1530 Custer Cluster station is WVBF in Massachusetts.

I'll have to wait until tomorrow to call them. I did manage to get a somewhat overworked fellow on the phone listed in the WVBF coverage map page, but he mentioned that they do run reading-service programs on some of their stations. He said that the Little Big Horn narration rang a bell and was from a book (I believe he said it was read by Jim Backus). He also mentioned they were USA Network, and I'd heard a newscast from that source, although it was impossible to tell if it was from the same signal.

Thanks for your input, gang. And see if you can catch that guy on the Spanish station. Wow, is he wound up!
 
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