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Q104 from it's Gadsden days

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there is a tribute website up for Q104 in it's Gadsden days the addy is

www.superq104.com

I am listening to it's feed right now and it sounds good!
 
It's amazing to think how great Top 40 on FM was in the Birmingham area in the late '70's and into the '80's. There were four really good stations back then: Q-104, I-95, Kicks 106 (my favorite), and Z-102. And it's amazing to think how mediocre Top 40 on FM is in the Birmingham area in 2008.
 
The only one I could find was the 60 dBu coverage map from the FCC, from before they moved to Birmingham:

http://i26.tinypic.com/6pazvk.jpg

I'm embarassed to admit this was still linked as The Q's coverage map on my own website. *blush*

I can attest to their coverage being a lot better than this 'protected contour' map imples; but I am not sure of the "four states" boasting on the Super Q website! I suppose up on a mountaintop in that little sliver of North Carolina that borders Tennessee and Georgia... It was possible. ::)
 
A coverage story. I was engineer for Q104 on Chestnut Street in 1977-1978. I lived in the transmitter building
on Chandler mountain for 6-7 months. Anyway, I went to visit my parents one weekend down in South Alabama 200+ miles away. I had an old ragged out station wagon with an AM only radio with an FM converter mounted under the dash. When I pulled up in my parents yard on a Saturday afternoon, my Dad (an old radio man himself)
came out to the car to greet me. We talked about my new job and I told him the station had a huge coverage area. I said, lets see if we can pick it up. Turning on the radio, I half expected nothing but static.
But shazaam.....there it was, booming in. He was floored and I just smiled. I was very proud that day.
It really did have a BIG signal. Of course there were no 8090 stations and the FM band was not near as congested as today. I really loved that station.

Chuck & friends have put together a GREAT tribute site.
 
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