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WIOD "Back in the Day"

Here in South Florida I'm amazed at how often and how well WBZ in Boston comes in at night. Looking at the map, that signal is a straight shot across open salt water, which I'm sure helps.
 
BocaWayne said:
Here in South Florida I'm amazed at how often and how well WBZ in Boston comes in at night. Looking at the map, that signal is a straight shot across open salt water, which I'm sure helps.
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Very true. Years ago I took a sailboat from West Palm Beach to Puerto Rico, sailing 24/7, and at night WBZ was the best and most consistent signal with entertaining content.
 
I learned about Charlotte listing to WBT in South Florida which in the '80's came in like a local just BEFORE sunset. Cox's WSOC brought me to Charlotte. I eventually made it over to WBT to ride the night time skywave. Let me add the station is proud of its incredible history.
 
Several months ago someone posted links at Radiodiscussions to a site where several QSL cards from a few personal collections had been scanned and uploaded. Along with those, some had photos or artists renderings of the stations as they looked at the time, their daily broadcast schedules from back in the day, etc. I was amazed at how different the WIOD site (Wonderful Isle of Dreams) looks now compared to back then. On the QSL cards, the station and towers appeared to be on a somewhat small, lush, relatively sleepy-looking tropical looking island. Cut to now and it's on a small sliver of a huge (mostly man made using fill) land mass, and it sits to the side of a busy, 4 lane thoroughfare that connects Miami Beach to the mainland.
 
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Actually, the strongest predominantly English language skywave signal was probably PJB from Bonaire.
 
WBT was the first AM station I ever DXed in South Florida, listening to an old AM radio as a pre-teen back in the '70s. A young George Woods was their evening guy back then, before his long run at several Midwestern stations. George passed in 2020 from a heart attack (not Covid) at age 70.
 
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Ai4i said:
Actually, the strongest predominantly English language skywave signal was probably PJB from Bonaire.
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Sure, the old Trans World Radio station on 800 Khz. Heard them just recently, broadcasting in Papiamento (Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao creole).
 
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