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WQYZ/Q92.5 Ocean Springs

RockyWShore said:
Somewhere, I have an aircheck or two of WQYZ 92.5 Ocean Springs, MS. It's from the last month or two of 2002. I lived at Keesler AFB for a couple of months and noted the station for much the same reasons mentioned earlier. They probably didn't use much compression, lending to that "sound" you talk about. At least, that's my impression. So many stations compress like crazy as competition across the dials to sound loud and stand out can be fierce. I first noticed this with FM broadcasters in Europe and the Middle East. And the bandwith used there seems to be wider than what's used here.

Rocky W. Shore
Palm Coast, FL
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Prehaps compression was the answer. Q was a local operation and didn't play by other stations rule books. It has probably been so long since other stations employee less compression that gave Q its 'unique' sound.

BTW if you come across the aircheck, I would apprciate the chance to hear it.
 
kevinkelly said:
Hey, Weerd Wayne, please tell Reverend Red that Kevin "Machine Gun" Kelly says hello from Ohio! Good to hear you guys are still around. I worked for WVMI and WQID twice, first time was when Rev was doing afternoons. AJ did mornings, Pat McGowan did middays, Wildman (Beau) Walker did nights, and Don Silver did late nights for a while. Second time, Gary Michiels and David Elliot (from WLOX) did mornings, Pat did middays, Bob Fonda did afternoons, and Bruce Edwards did overnights.

WVMI did have signal problems, at night... the night time pattern had several nulls, one of them passed over Orange Grove if I remember correctly. We had to protect several stations, and that meant a lot of people lost us at sunset. I would hope the nighttime signal of WTNI is an improvement. I might still have some copies of coverage maps for VMI and QID somewhere...

The only bad thing about working for both stations is you would get scheduled for back to back shifts sometimes, 12 hours on with no break was a lot more fun when I was about 20 years younger :)
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You know Pat McGowan is doing his thing at Coast 102 today.

As for Wildman Walker I have a picture of him in the QID studio in an old book.

Dave Elliot was on QID? Strange as he's been on WLOX as long as I can remember.

Kevin, at one time you furnished me a link to a website with a couple of your QID airchecks. Unfourtantly, I've since lost the link, If the site is still up and you have no problem could you provide the link for me agian?

As I remember the checks were short, but awesome!

Thanks
 
Thanks for the compliment, the website is down at the moment, but I will post a link (or email it to you if I can find your address) as soon as I get it going again. May be a month or so...

Yes indeed Dave Elliot co-hosted mornings on QID for a short while, and also recorded newcasts for WVMI. Dave was a very nice guy, just as friendly as he seemed to be on TV. There are quite a few people on the Coast who I miss seeing and he is one of them.

I have another cool QID momento somewhere... I received in the mail a demo tape from a production house that did QID's sweepers with Charlie Van Dyke's voice, and the tape features some of the Q's imaging circa 1989...
 
kevinkelly said:
Thanks for the compliment, the website is down at the moment, but I will post a link (or email it to you if I can find your address) as soon as I get it going again. May be a month or so...

Yes indeed Dave Elliot co-hosted mornings on QID for a short while, and also recorded newcasts for WVMI. Dave was a very nice guy, just as friendly as he seemed to be on TV. There are quite a few people on the Coast who I miss seeing and he is one of them.

I have another cool QID momento somewhere... I received in the mail a demo tape from a production house that did QID's sweepers with Charlie Van dyke's voice, and the tape features some of the Q's imaging circa 1989...
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Thanks for the update on the website, I'm looking foward to it!
 
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