How is WGPA doing under "roc" Crumliss? It seems a bit too niche. One time i heard a few old guys on the station gushing about the doo wop song "still of the night." The one guy said i remember this growing up on the Southside in 1962" Two others chimed along approvingly. I was thinking to myself, "what the harry is this?"
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how's WGPA doing?
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I'd like to know how they're doing, too. Not long ago, they had noticeable spurs +/- 80 kHz around 1100. Haven't travelled that way lately, but they were informed by email about the situation.
I live about 50 miles west of Bethlehem. Daytime DX has been trash for several years with all the new dial noise. WGPA *used* to be a faint but steady signal on a few of the radios I have here. But a fairly recent memory was one late afternoon when some guy whom we called by his patter as 'the big tick-tock' played a neat song, as WWWE's signal from Cleveland was mixing along with it. In the fades and signal stew I thought The Big Tick Tock said it was by 'The Flames From Lavendar Hill'.
Lol -- I found the song and downloaded it to mP3 and typed the artist by that name.
If you're interested maybe in hearing some collision of John Lennon and Buddy Holly, one click on this jawbreaker eAddress should be all it takes.
Lol -- I found the song and downloaded it to mP3 and typed the artist by that name.
If you're interested maybe in hearing some collision of John Lennon and Buddy Holly, one click on this jawbreaker eAddress should be all it takes.
I have sent WGPA a message asking for a nominal weekly fee plus sales to host mornings 3 hrs a day. I wait patiently.
WGPA calls their format Ameripolitan - its a combination of Rockabilly, 50's/60's Oldies, Classic Country, and Polka.This is from Wikipedia. I streamed it once, seemed to be all-over-the-place, and didn't care for the obscure song choices. I'll have to give it a listen again.
The station is a train wreck. I actually refer to it as "weird oldies" because I really don't know what they are. I would be surprised WGPA has more than a few dozen listeners in a given day. The FM translator barely makes it three miles and I don't expect many people are listening to the daytime AM signal.
What with Big Time College Football becoming the obscene nighttime/prime-time malignancy it's fated to keep as its only identity .... and what with the more daytime friendly Patriot League college football ..... and with WGPA only being on during the day, at least do the traditional Lehigh-Lafayette game during the last Saturday in November!
Can't get more local than that. And there's always local Muhlenberg for rivalry's sake.
Just musing here. 73
Can't get more local than that. And there's always local Muhlenberg for rivalry's sake.
Just musing here. 73
With the translator they do have nightime coverage. Not great but good enough to cover the city of Bethlehem.
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