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Saturday morning on AM 1610 and FM 87.7

ChuckTiller

ChuckTiller

While sitting in my car between 12:30AM-3AM, outside at the police station on Mykawa Rd., waiting to pick up someone who had been arrested, I heard the following on AM 1610.

It was a very good signal with some fade. I listened to this thing for 45 minutes. It was rock from the 1960s through the early 1980s. I only heard one thing that could be associated with any form of a station legal ID, which there were none. It was a jingle that separated two songs and it sang: "By request, Eighty-Nine W-L-S." By this time the now released jail bird made it to my car and the DXing was over. When I got back to Houston's west side, I turned it back on and there was nothing.

In my driveway, I picked up some 1970s R&B for about ten minutes, no ID.

The car is a 2007 Chevrolet Impala with the standard stock Delco radio.
 
Well, as everybody knows, WLS is a classic AM station in Chicago on 890am. In the 70s and 80s they were rock n' roll. Sounds like some pirate or perhaps it was 1620 AM out of College Station playing an old air check. Or ... dah dah dah dah do do do do, there's a sign post up ahead. You've entered the Twlight Zone.

But, however, ten years ago I had to frequently go out Hempstead Highway and always at one point, as I had my radio to 740 AM, KTRH would simply disappear and there was another station there. Never could get the call sign or from which planet(?) it was coming from.
 
It's definitely 1610; the Chevy has a digital read-out. You are right that it may be a pirate or perhaps it is a part 15 100mw station.
 
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