I remember coming home from college and when I was surfing the three stations that we had to listen to in Southern Ohio, WING WSAI and WUBE, I was blown away by that "Drake Sound". I got an old tape recorder, found a single plug to use with my transistor radio and started taping UBE when ever I was home. These are the ones that Bob was kind enough to scope. The lack of watts is what hurt UBE in this city. You couldn't pick it up at night if you were outside the city limits. Our current Oldies station has the same problem.
I used to do the same thing...trying to tape the songs...and sometimes getting those annoying DJ's on there as well
I found some old reel tapes of jazz...someone was taping WNOP for the songs in the 1960's and early 70's...and I gave them to someone to scope but they were not able to find too many nuggets.
It is like going back in a time machine and listening for a little while. Pretty cool.