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what signals do you miss that you used to receive?
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From a purely DX standpoint, I'd say the following...
Clear signals from many of the former clear channel stations.
800/PJB Bonaire - still there, but a shell of its former self.
All the Central American and Caribbean MW stations that have migrated to AM.
The high power Mexicans.
Same for the several South Americans that used to occasionally make it to my receiver.
Regionals like 910 KGLC in Miami, Oklahoma, 1560 WDXR in Paducah, KY, and 940 KIOA in Des Moines, IA. They all made it to my Midwest home.
Programming?
All the old Top-40 AM power houses.
WJR of the 60's and 70's. I think it was the best of the Midwest. Hard to beat J. P. McCarthy.
1190 WOWO of old.
The old 550 WKRC. One of the best programmed middle-of-the-road stations around.
Clear signals from many of the former clear channel stations.
800/PJB Bonaire - still there, but a shell of its former self.
All the Central American and Caribbean MW stations that have migrated to AM.
The high power Mexicans.
Same for the several South Americans that used to occasionally make it to my receiver.
Regionals like 910 KGLC in Miami, Oklahoma, 1560 WDXR in Paducah, KY, and 940 KIOA in Des Moines, IA. They all made it to my Midwest home.
Programming?
All the old Top-40 AM power houses.
WJR of the 60's and 70's. I think it was the best of the Midwest. Hard to beat J. P. McCarthy.
1190 WOWO of old.
The old 550 WKRC. One of the best programmed middle-of-the-road stations around.
I used to get a nice listenable signal of WWL here in Tampa all day every day when I first got my Sangean PR-D5 and then for some reason that stopped and I now can barely hear a trace of them midday behind the WGUL splatter.
Don't know what the reason was for the sudden drop in signal strength. It's still a mystery. I don't think it's anything WGUL did either. Their signal sounds the same to me.
Don't know what the reason was for the sudden drop in signal strength. It's still a mystery. I don't think it's anything WGUL did either. Their signal sounds the same to me.
WOWO definitely missed here, most among the casualties, Robotique.
When the song was current, WOWO played that snarling-guitar Dire Straits tune 'Money For Nothing'.
Great car-radio tune.
Way way back in the Long Island DXing days, WOWO played some great song I'd never heard before -- 'Fun Fun Fun' by the Beach Boys.
So I guess I miss WOWO most, too.
(Lol -- I always wondered if WOWO's competitors in the market used to play either 'Do You Know The Way To San Jose', 'I Need Your Loving Everyday', or any other songs with wo-wo in them :- )
When WBT Charlotte stopped playing music at night, I missed them too. 'G-l-o-r-i-a' by the Shadows Of Knight has got to be in the top ten songs ever by which to come out of a station ID. WBT used to get me bopping in the car, when they played music.
Twas also sad to hear KMOX 1120 stop having that all-night music show. Some huge-voice announcer played the Standards overnight, into the Nineties. Great stuff. It was a real throwback to years like 1963.
When the song was current, WOWO played that snarling-guitar Dire Straits tune 'Money For Nothing'.
Great car-radio tune.
Way way back in the Long Island DXing days, WOWO played some great song I'd never heard before -- 'Fun Fun Fun' by the Beach Boys.
So I guess I miss WOWO most, too.
(Lol -- I always wondered if WOWO's competitors in the market used to play either 'Do You Know The Way To San Jose', 'I Need Your Loving Everyday', or any other songs with wo-wo in them :- )
When WBT Charlotte stopped playing music at night, I missed them too. 'G-l-o-r-i-a' by the Shadows Of Knight has got to be in the top ten songs ever by which to come out of a station ID. WBT used to get me bopping in the car, when they played music.
Twas also sad to hear KMOX 1120 stop having that all-night music show. Some huge-voice announcer played the Standards overnight, into the Nineties. Great stuff. It was a real throwback to years like 1963.
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purpledevil
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I miss KEGL Fort Worth at 97.1. Before KTHT Cleveland TX signed on the same frequency, KEGL ma de quite a few appearances into Houston, especially in the northern parts of town. Now, you've got to drive up to at least Buffalo TX before you start to pick up "The Eagle".
I miss ****og TV where DXing was much easier. DTV is much more difficult to catch via sporadic-E skip. Also, several of the old, more distant ****og signals which were "watch-able" here are MIA in the digital format. A good example for me is WAVE from Louisville. Their ****og signal was snow free here while their DTV version only appears under strong tropo conditions.
Wow! looks like the swear filter is quite dumb 
It can't tell the difference between an actual naughty word and legitimate use of the same string of letters in a totally different context. (And the actual "word" it's filtering I think really isn't a "naughty" word - it's not that much different than a medical term.)
A few signals I miss include:
stations on 590 and 610 (local 600 KOGO running IBOC for several years now) are super tough
620 KTAR Phoenix, AZ (semi-local XESS Puerto Nuevo owns the frequency)
660 KGDP Orcutt, CA (now KWVE Oildale - pattern, power & location changes)
670 KBOI Boise, ID (pattern change)
760 KFMB San Diego, CA's C-Quam exciter
910 KECR El Cajon, CA - some of the programs they used to have, like Unshacked, etc.
960 KIXW Apple Valley, CA (daytime reception - now obliterated by 950 XEKAM's IBOC)
1030 KTWO Casper, WY (semi-local XESDD Puerto Nuevo signed on several years ago)
1070 KNX Los Angeles, CA's C-Quam (now IBOC)
1110 KDIS Pasadena, CA's C-Quam (now IBOC)
1180 KERI Wasco-Greenacres, CA (frequency swap with 1410 KERN Bakersfield, CA, which can't be heard here)
1200 KYAA Soquel, CA's oldies format (now Catholic)
1280 KFRN Long Beach, CA's C-Quam
1360 KPOP San Diego, CA's 40s-50s music format (now KLSD, was progressive talk now Fox sports)
1520 KOMA Oklahoma City, OK - oldies (now news/talk KOKC)
1570 KPRO Riverside, CA - a friend's Sunday Morning half-hour ministry program (voluntarily taken off air, discontinued)
1610 WNUB568 Chula Vista, CA
93.3 KECR El Cajon, CA - moved to AM 910, not stereo
94.1 KFSD San Diego, CA - classical (call & format changes since then)
It can't tell the difference between an actual naughty word and legitimate use of the same string of letters in a totally different context. (And the actual "word" it's filtering I think really isn't a "naughty" word - it's not that much different than a medical term.)A few signals I miss include:
stations on 590 and 610 (local 600 KOGO running IBOC for several years now) are super tough
620 KTAR Phoenix, AZ (semi-local XESS Puerto Nuevo owns the frequency)
660 KGDP Orcutt, CA (now KWVE Oildale - pattern, power & location changes)
670 KBOI Boise, ID (pattern change)
760 KFMB San Diego, CA's C-Quam exciter
910 KECR El Cajon, CA - some of the programs they used to have, like Unshacked, etc.
960 KIXW Apple Valley, CA (daytime reception - now obliterated by 950 XEKAM's IBOC)
1030 KTWO Casper, WY (semi-local XESDD Puerto Nuevo signed on several years ago)
1070 KNX Los Angeles, CA's C-Quam (now IBOC)
1110 KDIS Pasadena, CA's C-Quam (now IBOC)
1180 KERI Wasco-Greenacres, CA (frequency swap with 1410 KERN Bakersfield, CA, which can't be heard here)
1200 KYAA Soquel, CA's oldies format (now Catholic)
1280 KFRN Long Beach, CA's C-Quam
1360 KPOP San Diego, CA's 40s-50s music format (now KLSD, was progressive talk now Fox sports)
1520 KOMA Oklahoma City, OK - oldies (now news/talk KOKC)
1570 KPRO Riverside, CA - a friend's Sunday Morning half-hour ministry program (voluntarily taken off air, discontinued)
1610 WNUB568 Chula Vista, CA
93.3 KECR El Cajon, CA - moved to AM 910, not stereo
94.1 KFSD San Diego, CA - classical (call & format changes since then)
Off topic, but a-n-a-l-o-g doesn't need to be censored
This is what I miss getting on the radio from NW Indiana:
1270 WXYT Detroit (WWCA Gary signed back on in December 2002, & I'm only a mile & half from the WWCA towers)
820 WBAP Dallas, TX (their signal is difficult to get after local sunset, because WCPT Willow Springs, IL now broadcasts 24/7, & has a faint signal in NW Indiana, though WBAP tries to overpower WCPT without success)
700 WLW Cincinnati (get them at night, but during the day, IBOC from 670 WSCR makes it difficult to get during the day).
95.9 WERV Aurora, IL & WEFM Michigan City, IN (W240BJ Crown Point, IN came back on the air, & instead of rebroadcasting 88.5 WTMK Wanatah, IN, it's most likely now rebroadcasting 88.9 WHLP Hanna, IN, a Calvary Chapel station).
97.5 WYTZ Bridgman, MI, WZOK Rockford, IL, & WHMS Champaign, IL, because of W248BB Hillside, IL broadcasting from the Sears Tower in downtown Chicago, airing ESPN Deportes.
On the TV side, WNDU South Bend, IN was one of the easiest to get when they were on a-n-a-log, & on channel 16, but for digital, they're on 42, & now one of the most difficult to get in Gary, IN (at least for me).
1270 WXYT Detroit (WWCA Gary signed back on in December 2002, & I'm only a mile & half from the WWCA towers)
820 WBAP Dallas, TX (their signal is difficult to get after local sunset, because WCPT Willow Springs, IL now broadcasts 24/7, & has a faint signal in NW Indiana, though WBAP tries to overpower WCPT without success)
700 WLW Cincinnati (get them at night, but during the day, IBOC from 670 WSCR makes it difficult to get during the day).
95.9 WERV Aurora, IL & WEFM Michigan City, IN (W240BJ Crown Point, IN came back on the air, & instead of rebroadcasting 88.5 WTMK Wanatah, IN, it's most likely now rebroadcasting 88.9 WHLP Hanna, IN, a Calvary Chapel station).
97.5 WYTZ Bridgman, MI, WZOK Rockford, IL, & WHMS Champaign, IL, because of W248BB Hillside, IL broadcasting from the Sears Tower in downtown Chicago, airing ESPN Deportes.
On the TV side, WNDU South Bend, IN was one of the easiest to get when they were on a-n-a-log, & on channel 16, but for digital, they're on 42, & now one of the most difficult to get in Gary, IN (at least for me).
I'd assume that the board has an editable list of unsuitable words or terms. On a radio forum, a-n-a-l-o-g is certainly not a bad word. In fact, in discussions of indecency and profanity, even the term without the -og might be appropriate in the proper context.
I'm reminded of a post I made some years ago in the Puerto Rico forum where I mentioned the Channel 4 WAPA TV news director. His name, Enrique, is often shortened to "Quique" and in today's Spanish, the Qu can be replaced by a "K" which makes the name look just like to pejorative for Jewish persons... so the name got deleted.
Word list censorship is generally a sword that ends up being fallen upon. I mind an occasional cuss word much less than the demeaning and chauvinistic "buy a girlfriend from Russia" ads that now are appearing next to the posts.
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For me in Columbus, Ohio, it's WOWO hands down, and specifically the WOWO from about 1988-91 with the oldies format. Was not a fan when they started playing more current music, then when they became the cookie-cutter talker they are today. They weren't always a blaster here at night because we were on the outer edge of the cancellation zone and that signal had to get past WHAM inteference, but what a station.
The KMOX announcer referred to earlier might have been Jim White. His was one of the first programs I remember DXing back around 1989 or 1990. Happened to stick around after a Cardinals game and there he was ... I want to say one of his sayings was "things that go bump in the night." Unfortunately he's no longer with us; he died in 2009.
I also wish I was old enough to have heard the classic formats on PJB and XEROK, not to mention CKLW much closer to me. Perhaps my greatest DX disappointment was the night in Panama City Beach, Fla. back in July 2004 when I set up on my hotel balcony with a beer and cigar and DXd AM along the gulf ... and heard nothing but mush on 800.
The KMOX announcer referred to earlier might have been Jim White. His was one of the first programs I remember DXing back around 1989 or 1990. Happened to stick around after a Cardinals game and there he was ... I want to say one of his sayings was "things that go bump in the night." Unfortunately he's no longer with us; he died in 2009.
I also wish I was old enough to have heard the classic formats on PJB and XEROK, not to mention CKLW much closer to me. Perhaps my greatest DX disappointment was the night in Panama City Beach, Fla. back in July 2004 when I set up on my hotel balcony with a beer and cigar and DXd AM along the gulf ... and heard nothing but mush on 800.
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kenglish
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"Broadcasting and Cable" magazine's filter made me use the term, "Little room at the front of the plane, where the pilot sits", a while back.
What I miss are the shortwave stations, that carried excellent news and features programming. I really miss the international broadcasters on shortwave, where I could hear them with a simple radio, not an internet connection.
Also, I'm finding it harder and harder to hear the full-power stations, like CBC 540 out of Canada, and some of the California blowtorches, due to the ever-increasing noise floor. Seems like they are only audible via "Gray Line", not daytime or nighttime.
What I miss are the shortwave stations, that carried excellent news and features programming. I really miss the international broadcasters on shortwave, where I could hear them with a simple radio, not an internet connection.
Also, I'm finding it harder and harder to hear the full-power stations, like CBC 540 out of Canada, and some of the California blowtorches, due to the ever-increasing noise floor. Seems like they are only audible via "Gray Line", not daytime or nighttime.
Off the top of my head(far northwest suburbs of Chicago)....
580: CKY migrated to FM (sort of)
690: CBF also migrated
920 WOKY day signal has always been weak...night used to be strong. Night signal now lost in the noise
940: CBM parallel situation to CBF
1090: WGLC, former daytimer from Mendota, IL. KAAY which used to rule here at night, now also gets swallowed up.
1150: WISN moved to 1130 where it's now invisible at night. On 1150 it was inaudible here day, but listenable nights.
1190: WOWO usually no longer audible here day or night
1550: Lake Geneva, WI (various call letters du jour) now gone during the day. CBE now gone at night
1600: WMCW Shut down to clear the channel for power boost on nearby 1590.
Next up....1640 in Sussex, WI (Milwaukee area). Reportedly to be taken down in cost-cutting move by Radio Disney
580: CKY migrated to FM (sort of)
690: CBF also migrated
920 WOKY day signal has always been weak...night used to be strong. Night signal now lost in the noise
940: CBM parallel situation to CBF
1090: WGLC, former daytimer from Mendota, IL. KAAY which used to rule here at night, now also gets swallowed up.
1150: WISN moved to 1130 where it's now invisible at night. On 1150 it was inaudible here day, but listenable nights.
1190: WOWO usually no longer audible here day or night
1550: Lake Geneva, WI (various call letters du jour) now gone during the day. CBE now gone at night
1600: WMCW Shut down to clear the channel for power boost on nearby 1590.
Next up....1640 in Sussex, WI (Milwaukee area). Reportedly to be taken down in cost-cutting move by Radio Disney
Wow, I'll have to think about this one.
KJET 1590 in Seattle is a local station I miss hearing (format change). They were 80's 'alternative', and programmed well. Also programming wise, I miss the old KGO San Francisco. During its heyday, it had talk programming covering the spectrum, and the hosts were for the most part very good. Even hosts I didn't agree with were worth listening to.
DX wise, I miss being able to hear WSM or KORL (now under different calls and format) on 650 as the channel is so crowded. I wasn't able to hear those stations very often, but was able to hear WSM maybe once a year. WWL used to be something I heard once or twice a year, now it competes with a station in the Tri-Cities WA and splash from local 880 KIXI. WLS -- same thing, basically.
KRVN in Nebraska used to have so-so programming for a young DXer but it was interesting to hear all the agricultural reports and stuff you wouldn't hear in the urban parts of the west... they're now covered by a local station on 880.
KJET 1590 in Seattle is a local station I miss hearing (format change). They were 80's 'alternative', and programmed well. Also programming wise, I miss the old KGO San Francisco. During its heyday, it had talk programming covering the spectrum, and the hosts were for the most part very good. Even hosts I didn't agree with were worth listening to.
DX wise, I miss being able to hear WSM or KORL (now under different calls and format) on 650 as the channel is so crowded. I wasn't able to hear those stations very often, but was able to hear WSM maybe once a year. WWL used to be something I heard once or twice a year, now it competes with a station in the Tri-Cities WA and splash from local 880 KIXI. WLS -- same thing, basically.
KRVN in Nebraska used to have so-so programming for a young DXer but it was interesting to hear all the agricultural reports and stuff you wouldn't hear in the urban parts of the west... they're now covered by a local station on 880.
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