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Little Walter's Time Machine on 107.3 FM?

KML0224

KML0224

Occasionally here in New Britain's south end, I hear a faint signal of a station airing something called Little Walter's Time Machine. It's on 107.3 FM. The signal is quite weak, but yet it's always stable when it's there. I doubt it's somebody using an XM receiver nearby. I never hear any commercials or station ID...just oldies music. Any ideas? :confused:
 
KML-224 said:
Occasionally here in New Britain's south end, I hear a faint signal of a station airing something called Little Walter's Time Machine. It's on 107.3 FM. The signal is quite weak, but yet it's always stable when it's there. I doubt it's somebody using an XM receiver nearby. I never hear any commercials or station ID...just oldies music. Any ideas? :confused:
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Maybe it's B-107.3 the translator in Danbury that simulcasts WAXB 850 Ridgefield.
 
I doubt it. I think I'm too far away for it to be them. Whoever this "station" is was playing part of a 70s edition of Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" earlier. I think it was off the air soon after that finished. I wonder if it could be somebody using the frequency for their XM service nearby?
 
KML-224 said:
I doubt it. I think I'm too far away for it to be them. Whoever this "station" is was playing part of a 70s edition of Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" earlier. I think it was off the air soon after that finished. I wonder if it could be somebody using the frequency for their XM service nearby?
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Old AT40s are aired on '60s on 6 and '70s on 7, but SiriusXM doesn't carry Little Walter's Time Machine. There's a show called Cool Bobby B's Doo Wop Stop on the '50s channel. Maybe that's what you heard.

In my former neighborhood, there was a guy who broadcast Howard Stern on 88.9 using the low-power FM modulator that used to come with their radios before the FCC forced Sirius and XM to greatly reduce the power after noncommercial FMs complained. I still have one of the old ones in my car, and it can wipe out a signal on any frequency it covers half a parking lot away.
 
>Maybe it's B-107.3 the translator in Danbury that simulcasts WAXB 850 Ridgefield.

Doubt it. The Danbury station doesn't play anything pre 70s.
 
I haven't heard any commercials, station IDs or any mention of Sirius/XM. Again, the signal is weak, but very stable when it's on.
 
Misstatement on my part on the AT40 situation on SiriusXM. AT40 is aired only on '70s on 7. '60s on 6 has an in-house countdown show that uses a made-up chart based on data from the established charts of the day, with chart positions of several songs altered, presumably to avoid legal eagles.
 
I'm hearing this station again right now. I'm guessing I must be picking up somebody's receiver for this channel. The signal is very weak, but it's always stable. It's the oldies show I mentioned to start this thread. I've even heard a 70s edition of "American Top 40" late one afternoon. Go figure!
 
KML-224 said:
I'm hearing this station again right now. I'm guessing I must be picking up somebody's receiver for this channel. The signal is very weak, but it's always stable. It's the oldies show I mentioned to start this thread. I've even heard a 70s edition of "American Top 40" late one afternoon. Go figure!
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Again, you must be picking up a hobbyist's pirate operation. SiriusXM runs AT40 on '70s on 7 but not Little Walter, on any channel. Maybe the pirate is relaying a TuneIn stream of some obscure AM station that runs both.
 
I probably am picking something like that up. It played an early "American Top 40" episode from this week in 1970 today. "War" from Edwin Starr dropped to #2 and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" from The Supremes took over #1. When that ended, it went back to the Little Walter oldies stuff again.

I only get it on 107.3 FM. The signal is always weak but consistent, only changing if I move the antenna wire a little.
 
On New Year's Eve, I was in Middletown and picked that station up in my car. It was running "The History of Rock and Roll," which I recall hearing on commercial radio in the late '70s.
 
NightTrain said:
On New Year's Eve, I was in Middletown and picked that station up in my car. It was running "The History of Rock and Roll," which I recall hearing on commercial radio in the late '70s.
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If you were there in the daytime, you might have been hearing one of the stations coming in during the E-skip openings that week rather than the pirate.
 
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