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FM antenna, downtown Fort Lauderdale
- Thread starter FLjack2
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FLjack2 said:
If that is the building I am thinking it is, it may be or have been the auxiliary site for WFYI.
ai4i said:
Tropo? E-skip?
From what I recall there is (was?) a complete studio setup there...just in case. Done in the days of RKO General. They were awesome with backups for the backups.
Does anyone here know what they are using for a transmitter down on Pembroke Road. I remember the monster 40KW RCA that loafed along pumping 33KW into the antenna at the very top of the tower. The RCA was 2 20KW boxes with a combiner in the middle. The biggest FM transmitter I ever saw. So "BIG 105.9" fits!
Does anyone here know what they are using for a transmitter down on Pembroke Road. I remember the monster 40KW RCA that loafed along pumping 33KW into the antenna at the very top of the tower. The RCA was 2 20KW boxes with a combiner in the middle. The biggest FM transmitter I ever saw. So "BIG 105.9" fits!
ai4i said:
Reminds me of a funny story... back when WAXY was automated and in the old First Federal Bank building on Las Olas Blvd I monitored the station with my radio. The old Gates FM 10B transmitter went down but I could still hear the radio station on my radio, thanks to the exciter that was still pumping out around 10 watts.
Mike Sheridan said:
We grew up on fourth street on Miami Beach and remember Cowgirl Connie arguing with someone about how to get the "Wild GOoSe" back on the air. Always treat a mic in a radio studio as you would an "unloaded" gun!
How many (millions of) people might the class B FMs on the Empire State Bldg reach in standby mode?
ai4i said:
Wow someone else who remembers Cowgirl Connie and the Wild Goose WGOS. I also remember "WAEZ Stereo time". I got my first FM radio in 1966 and there was a whole new world. Used to listen to the "Wax Museum" at night on WEDR.
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cd637299
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Okay, you two (Mike Sheridan & ai4i).....
Now I wanna hear some Miami FM airchecks from 1966......do any exist?
(I have some WGBS 1961 as an AM/FM combo, but that's not what I mean)
Never heard of Cowgirl Connie. Was WGOS 24 hours? (If so, why?
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Now I wanna hear some Miami FM airchecks from 1966......do any exist?
(I have some WGBS 1961 as an AM/FM combo, but that's not what I mean)
Never heard of Cowgirl Connie. Was WGOS 24 hours? (If so, why?
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ai4i said:
I remember visiting WFAB in about 1962 or '63 and the competitor was the Dee Rivers AM, WMIE with Jack Nobles as manager, and located at that 36th St address and the FM, as WMIE-FM had just gone on the air. In '63 the AM already had 100 hours of Spanish language programming and continued expanding that until it was sold in '66 to Susquehanna who changed it to WQBA.
WFAB was at Biscayne and 14th, I think, where they specialized in double billing.
C
cd637299
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BTW, as far as call letters go, ya can't beat "WQBA" for a Cuban audience....In English it's "Kyu-ba" & in Spanish "Koo-ba" in which both fit nicely!
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Sorry no airchecks from 1966 I didn't have a decent tape recorder.
It was cool to hear Country on crystal clear FM WGOS. Later it became WBUS.
What I do have is an aircheck of early WMYQ (formerly WJHR and before that WGBS-FM). It was so early they were playing records and located at 710 Brickell.
I saw what used to be WFAB while WNWS was located there. By that time it was a real dump.
It was cool to hear Country on crystal clear FM WGOS. Later it became WBUS.
What I do have is an aircheck of early WMYQ (formerly WJHR and before that WGBS-FM). It was so early they were playing records and located at 710 Brickell.
I saw what used to be WFAB while WNWS was located there. By that time it was a real dump.
cd637299 said:
WCMQ was a good choice too. CMQ was a very popular station I'm told in Cuba. Herb Dolgoff was a smart man. Before that 1220 (now 1210) had been WLTO and prior to that country WOAH.
C
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Yuppers! WCMQ for sure.
In 1974 when 92.1 became the first Spanish FM here, I felt it was a LONG time coming. Why no one else tried it was beyond me. I never heard Latin music in stereo before.
BTW....it's sure hard to "reminisce" when my first FM radio (for my very own) was in 1969. Like Steven Wright sez..."I like to reminisce with people I don't know.....granted, it takes longer....."
(edit) OH yeah....I do faintly recall WGOS ads on bus benches (the extent of their advertising, I'd say)....wasn;t there a cartoon of a hillbilly in overalls or something? Was WGOS stereo?
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In 1974 when 92.1 became the first Spanish FM here, I felt it was a LONG time coming. Why no one else tried it was beyond me. I never heard Latin music in stereo before.
BTW....it's sure hard to "reminisce" when my first FM radio (for my very own) was in 1969. Like Steven Wright sez..."I like to reminisce with people I don't know.....granted, it takes longer....."
(edit) OH yeah....I do faintly recall WGOS ads on bus benches (the extent of their advertising, I'd say)....wasn;t there a cartoon of a hillbilly in overalls or something? Was WGOS stereo?
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