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YOUR FIRST STATION
- Thread starter beefjerky
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I Think PB has nailed it. In the older AM transmitters, there was a second harmonic tunable filter consisting of a RC network (coil and Capacitor) that effectively screened out the second (2X basic Frequency) harmonic. Of Course, some engineer types did not appreciate the significance of the network, it was often changed or failed to be changed when the transmitter was moved to a new frequency. Hence, the second harmonic would be radiated. The monitoring station at Power Springs, Georgia used to be very digilent in monitoring this condition. Not sure if is still active, Tnx JBI
jboyd said:Michael. there was one in Ripley...the call escapes me...( no comments about old men and memory!) JBI
that was WCSA
in the early 90's I with a couple partners looked at the FM there which was silent at the time.
We also looked at WBIP and were very close to a purchase but a couple of us got cold feet (or in my case was a bit too young to take such risks). I can honestly say I know today what I should have done. I have learned to take more risks.
Does anyone know if WBIP-AM has remained on the air?
Kind of late to this party, but here's my 2 cents
Earliest radio memories where those of the legendary WQID and the ocasional listen to Power 108.
The station that probably interested and influenced me the most in the formable teen years was Q101 Meridian in its CHR gone HOT AC days back in the mid to late 90s.
My first station to ever grace the mic was WMSV-FM, Miss. State's student run station (Go Bulldogs) doing the afternoon weather report. First comercial gig was with Radio Cleveland, IE: WCLD AM/FM and WMJW FM.
Earliest radio memories where those of the legendary WQID and the ocasional listen to Power 108.
The station that probably interested and influenced me the most in the formable teen years was Q101 Meridian in its CHR gone HOT AC days back in the mid to late 90s.
My first station to ever grace the mic was WMSV-FM, Miss. State's student run station (Go Bulldogs) doing the afternoon weather report. First comercial gig was with Radio Cleveland, IE: WCLD AM/FM and WMJW FM.
Yes, and don't forget those ever increasing "Regulatory Fees" that magically appear every September....JBI
Threw this subject up on the Louisiana board, bringing all kinds of folks out the woodwork...fun reading!
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buttonpuncher
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Can’t believe there only a few mentions of WJDX-FM, later WZZQ-FM 102.9 who did AOR in the late 60s till around 1981
I lived in a small town in central Louisiana: _ _ _ _-6 (take a guess). I started with a 6-Transistor Radio listening mainly to WLS, WNOE, & KAAY in the early 60’s. When I discovered “JDX-FM” I struggled with a old TV antenna we had to pick it up and was “turned-on” to so much good music I still love today. My days of listening to top-40 quickly ended. I have since talked to several people who got their rock music education from JDX/ZZQ-FM.
ZZQ is gone now and the closest thing I can find is in the heavens on XM’s Deep Tracks where nearly every day I hear something from the ZZQ era I haven’t heard in 20+ years.
I even had a dream once that ZZQ was back, but woke up :-( But I was in a SoulShine Pizza Restaurant in North Jackson and saw a WZZQ Sticker, that made my soul shine!
Several years ago Z-106 had a “ZZQ Reunion” on & off the air but it sounded like not many of the former ZZQ staff showed up. Some are no longer with us; David Adcock, who was also on 106.7 & 94.7 with “Tunes Till Two” on Sundays, he did great theme sets. And someone said Wayne Harrison was shot?. Since it was mostly about the music I don’t remember any of the other names, other than Perez who had a quirky sense of humor.
PS, I also used to listen to KAAY & Beaker Street. BTW Clyde Clifford re-birthed Beaker Street and had it going for quite a while on FM a few years back in Little Rock on 94.9.
Update: I just did a search and Clifford is still doing Beaker Street on 105.1 in LR, here’s the website with playlists, downloads, and history: http://beakerstreet.com/1stpage.htm
I lived in a small town in central Louisiana: _ _ _ _-6 (take a guess). I started with a 6-Transistor Radio listening mainly to WLS, WNOE, & KAAY in the early 60’s. When I discovered “JDX-FM” I struggled with a old TV antenna we had to pick it up and was “turned-on” to so much good music I still love today. My days of listening to top-40 quickly ended. I have since talked to several people who got their rock music education from JDX/ZZQ-FM.
ZZQ is gone now and the closest thing I can find is in the heavens on XM’s Deep Tracks where nearly every day I hear something from the ZZQ era I haven’t heard in 20+ years.
I even had a dream once that ZZQ was back, but woke up :-( But I was in a SoulShine Pizza Restaurant in North Jackson and saw a WZZQ Sticker, that made my soul shine!
Several years ago Z-106 had a “ZZQ Reunion” on & off the air but it sounded like not many of the former ZZQ staff showed up. Some are no longer with us; David Adcock, who was also on 106.7 & 94.7 with “Tunes Till Two” on Sundays, he did great theme sets. And someone said Wayne Harrison was shot?. Since it was mostly about the music I don’t remember any of the other names, other than Perez who had a quirky sense of humor.
PS, I also used to listen to KAAY & Beaker Street. BTW Clyde Clifford re-birthed Beaker Street and had it going for quite a while on FM a few years back in Little Rock on 94.9.
Update: I just did a search and Clifford is still doing Beaker Street on 105.1 in LR, here’s the website with playlists, downloads, and history: http://beakerstreet.com/1stpage.htm
other than Perez who had a quirky sense of humor.
'Puncher, be prepared to fall out o' yo chair when you see the co-host/producer of the morning show listed below:
http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpID=576&NewsID=588371&CategoryID=735&show=localnews&om=1
Yep, it's him.
And JBoyd: it's Powder Springs, GA. Makes me recall the monthly postcards we would receive at WSSO/Starkville from a Frequency Monitoring Service. "WSSO received on [date] at [time long after midnight] on 1,230,000.001 Hz via [some location near Mars]". Whatever, Joe Phillips was happy as long as we put it in the log.
Hey Buttonpusher, you are right!
Will never forget climbing up on the roof in Starkville, installing an antenna so I could hear WJDX-FM "The Rock."
I can remember it like yesterday, hooking up the antenna, tuning the FM radio, and "Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who comes blastin' across the airwaves, fading in and out sometimes cause of the distance.
If that wasn't magic, I don't know what is. It was for sure a turning point in my LIFE!
Will never forget climbing up on the roof in Starkville, installing an antenna so I could hear WJDX-FM "The Rock."
I can remember it like yesterday, hooking up the antenna, tuning the FM radio, and "Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who comes blastin' across the airwaves, fading in and out sometimes cause of the distance.
If that wasn't magic, I don't know what is. It was for sure a turning point in my LIFE!
Talking about monitoring station frequencies. I remember getting up at 3 AM and going down to WXXX in Hattiesburg, signing on so that some fellow in I think Birminham could measure our frequency. All of the jocks rotated with this assignment from time to time. I sure had my few experiences. There's nothing like interupting a good night sleep for frequency measurements!! I guess it was all part of paying my dues. I was always amazed that someone in Birmingham could pick up a station runnigh 1 KW on 1310 several hundred miles away. I think the guys name was Clyde something or another. Any help J Boyd?
buttonpuncher said:Can’t believe there only a few mentions of WJDX-FM, later WZZQ-FM 102.9 who did AOR in the late 60s till around 1981
I lived in a small town in central Louisiana: _ _ _ _-6 (take a guess). I started with a 6-Transistor Radio listening mainly to WLS, WNOE, & KAAY in the early 60’s. When I discovered “JDX-FM” I struggled with a old TV antenna we had to pick it up and was “turned-on” to so much good music I still love today. My days of listening to top-40 quickly ended. I have since talked to several people who got their rock music education from JDX/ZZQ-FM.
ZZQ is gone now and the closest thing I can find is in the heavens on XM’s Deep Tracks where nearly every day I hear something from the ZZQ era I haven’t heard in 20+ years.
I even had a dream once that ZZQ was back, but woke up :-( But I was in a SoulShine Pizza Restaurant in North Jackson and saw a WZZQ Sticker, that made my soul shine!
Several years ago Z-106 had a “ZZQ Reunion” on & off the air but it sounded like not many of the former ZZQ staff showed up. Some are no longer with us; David Adcock, who was also on 106.7 & 94.7 with “Tunes Till Two” on Sundays, he did great theme sets. And someone said Wayne Harrison was shot?. Since it was mostly about the music I don’t remember any of the other names, other than Perez who had a quirky sense of humor.
PS, I also used to listen to KAAY & Beaker Street. BTW Clyde Clifford re-birthed Beaker Street and had it going for quite a while on FM a few years back in Little Rock on 94.9.
Update: I just did a search and Clifford is still doing Beaker Street on 105.1 in LR, here’s the website with playlists, downloads, and history: http://beakerstreet.com/1stpage.htm
buttonpuncher said:Can’t believe there only a few mentions of WJDX-FM, later WZZQ-FM 102.9 who did AOR in the late 60s till around 1981
I lived in a small town in central Louisiana: _ _ _ _-6 (take a guess). I started with a 6-Transistor Radio listening mainly to WLS, WNOE, & KAAY in the early 60’s. When I discovered “JDX-FM” I struggled with a old TV antenna we had to pick it up and was “turned-on” to so much good music I still love today. My days of listening to top-40 quickly ended. I have since talked to several people who got their rock music education from JDX/ZZQ-FM.
ZZQ is gone now and the closest thing I can find is in the heavens on XM’s Deep Tracks where nearly every day I hear something from the ZZQ era I haven’t heard in 20+ years.
I even had a dream once that ZZQ was back, but woke up :-( But I was in a SoulShine Pizza Restaurant in North Jackson and saw a WZZQ Sticker, that made my soul shine!
Several years ago Z-106 had a “ZZQ Reunion” on & off the air but it sounded like not many of the former ZZQ staff showed up. Some are no longer with us; David Adcock, who was also on 106.7 & 94.7 with “Tunes Till Two” on Sundays, he did great theme sets. And someone said Wayne Harrison was shot?. Since it was mostly about the music I don’t remember any of the other names, other than Perez who had a quirky sense of humor.
PS, I also used to listen to KAAY & Beaker Street. BTW Clyde Clifford re-birthed Beaker Street and had it going for quite a while on FM a few years back in Little Rock on 94.9.
Update: I just did a search and Clifford is still doing Beaker Street on 105.1 in LR, here’s the website with playlists, downloads, and history: http://beakerstreet.com/1stpage.htm
I copied and pasted a post from the Dan Fogelberg WZZQ thread to respond to your thread buttonpuncher. Thanks for the mention of WZZQ.
Hello, everyone,
It is with pride that I find a thread about Dan Fogelberg & WZZQ on this site. WZZQ was my creation. I was PD at WRBC in Jackson (3rd time I had worked there) when I was hired to be PD for WJDX-FM in July 1972. The station had been playing rock music of one kind or another since the summer of 1968 when I was working at WWUN with Jim McCullough, Jimmy Rabbitt, Mickey Robinson & Jesse James. In 1973 we changed the call letters to WZZQ and a truely legendary Jackson radio station was born. I was also afternoon jock for WZZQ at the time of that Fogelberg concert. There were a lot of memories that went through my head when I read about Dan's passing. He is a special part of Jackson's musical history. Today if you mention Dan Fogelberg, nobody has even heard of the "Home Free" album, his first. I even got into an argument with a Columbia Records promo man down here in Florida once because he didn't know that the album was on his label! He argued up and down that DF was on EPIC. I told him yes, all of his albums WERE on EPIC except his first. THAT one was on Columbia. I finally showed him a copy of the record and he was amazed.
If my memory serves me it was either Curtis Jones (known on air as "Sebastian") or the late David Adcock who "discovered" the Home Free album. Even now, over 30 years later, I would be hard pressed to tell you why it clicked, but it did. I even tried playing some cuts at WGRQ in Buffalo in 1977(where I went after ZZQ) and the only song that ever generated a call from a listener was "Stars." When Dan played that infamous sold-out concert we did get the OK to broadcast it live and we tapeed the show at the studio and that's where we pulled "Best of My Love" from. At the time of the concert the Eagles On the Border album hadn't been released yet and Dan said he had gotten permission from Henley to do the song at the show. Dan's version of that song remained as popular as the Eagles version as long as I was there.
I guess now that I've discovered this site I'll have to make some appearances in some other threads to participate in the trips down memory lane about other stations and other people. Thanks for reading and thanks for bringing up a moment close to my heart.
Johnny Sommer
Worked at:waynewatkins said:How's about including the first station you ever worked at and what you remember about it, too??
Mine was WLSU in Tiger Stadium 1975...pretty much got to spin anything you wanted ...I also lived in the stadium dorm my 1st year...really rocked during football season!
1st fave MS station? WQID of course...but teen years grew up on TIX and NOE in New Orleans...always loved to hear Landecker on WLS and O'Brien and Beeker Street on KAAY Little Rock...
WVIM 1490 Vicksburg in 1965
WQMV 98.7 Vicksburg 1966
WRBC 1300 Jackson 1966 & 1968
WWUN 1590 Jackson 1968
WDLP 590 Panama City 1969
WMIS Natchez 1969 (for 2 weeks!)
WABB 1480 Mobile 1969
WRNO 99.5 New Orleans 1970
WRBC (again!) Jackson 1971
WJDX 620 & WJDX-FM 102.9 Jackson 1972
WZZQ 102.9 Jackson 1973
WGRQ 96.9 Buffalo NY 1977
WHYI Y100 Miami 1980
WCKX 95.9 Clearwater 1982
WRBQ Q105 Tampa 1982
WQXM 98 Rock Tampa 1983
WZNE Z98 Tampa 1984
WUSA 100.7 Tampa 1985
WMTX Mix96 Tampa 1996
WLVU 106.3 & 97.1 Tampa 1996
My earliest radio memories are of the little home town stations in Vicksburg, then WRBC & WWUN, WSLI, WJDX, WOKJ in Jackson. In the early days in Jackson I remember guys like Lee Marshall, Rob Rall, Ron Grantham, Les Acre, Al Simmons, George Florence, Jeff Hester, & Farmer Jim Neal. Then the entire staff at WWUN where I worked in 1968, Jimmy McCullough, Jimmy Rabbit, Mickey Robinson, Jesse James. As a kid I listened to Ron Riley & Art Robers on WLS in 1963 & 64. Later Kris Eric Stevens, John Landecker. Also during this time the guys in New Orleans on WTIX & WNOE. Buzz Bennett, Jim Stewart, Dan Diamond, Don Wade. I too was a fan of KAAY and I don't see anybody mentioning Big Hugh Baby & John R on WLAC in Nashville. Gene Noble and the Randy's Record Shop show on WLAC. Those wonderful 6 packs of old R&B records you could buy mail order from Randy's. Did you know that Randy's Record Shop was owned by Randy Wood who founded Dot Records?
That just scratches the surface, but at least it should stir up some of you other forgotten favorites.
Johnny Sommer
Remember the "chief" who kept you rockin at WWUN? JBI
jboydingram said:Remember the "chief" who kept you rockin at WWUN? JBI
I certainly do remember, J. Boyd. I sent you an e-mail to say hello as soon as I came across your name on one of these threads. This is my first day on this site and I've run into several familiar old names. It's funny, I went to register for this site and discovered that I was already a member, but for some reason had never been here. I must have signed on looking at stuff from the Tampa area where I've been for 25 years! I hope you get my e-mail.
Johnny
Gads... a list of stations I worked for a la JohnnyV? Yikes... this is scary...
KEVL White Castle, LA 1969
WSLG Donaldsonville, LA 1969
KEVL which became KLSU 1970
WNSL Laurel 1971
WAPF/WCCA McComb 1971-1972
WWUN, Jackson 1972
WSSO, Starkville 1973
WKUL, Cullman, AL 1973
WWUN, Jackson 1973-1974
WJDX, Jackson 1974-1975
KSLQ, St. Louis 1975-1976
WJFL, Vicksburg 1976
WFOR Hattiesburg 1976 (PD)
KRIL/KDMS El Dorado, AR 1976
KIRL, St. Louis 1976-1977
WWUN, Jackson 1977
WKBX, Savannah, GA 1977-78
WSGF, Savannah 1978-1979
WSGA/WZAT Savannah 1979
WROK, Rockford, IL 1979-1980
WZOK, Rockford 1980
KEYN,Wichita 1980-1982
KQAM, Wichita 1981-1982 (VT on AM oldies)
KADI, St. Louis 1982
KWK, St. Louis, 1984-1985
KYKY St. Louis 1985-1989 (MD)
KLOU, St. Louis, 1989
KSTZ, St. Louis, 1989-1990
KSD, St. Louis 1990-1992
KEZK, St. Louis, 1992
KTRS 1998
KSD, St. Louis, 2001-2005
KLOU, St. Louis 2003-2005
Dear God, please save me from adding to that list again.
Inspirations? Too many to list, and most are people no one has ever hear of- besides the Krewe of TIX, there were the Collins Twins on WNOE, anyone ever on WLS, and two guys from Baton Rouge named Robin Coco and Roy Shaw.
KEVL White Castle, LA 1969
WSLG Donaldsonville, LA 1969
KEVL which became KLSU 1970
WNSL Laurel 1971
WAPF/WCCA McComb 1971-1972
WWUN, Jackson 1972
WSSO, Starkville 1973
WKUL, Cullman, AL 1973
WWUN, Jackson 1973-1974
WJDX, Jackson 1974-1975
KSLQ, St. Louis 1975-1976
WJFL, Vicksburg 1976
WFOR Hattiesburg 1976 (PD)
KRIL/KDMS El Dorado, AR 1976
KIRL, St. Louis 1976-1977
WWUN, Jackson 1977
WKBX, Savannah, GA 1977-78
WSGF, Savannah 1978-1979
WSGA/WZAT Savannah 1979
WROK, Rockford, IL 1979-1980
WZOK, Rockford 1980
KEYN,Wichita 1980-1982
KQAM, Wichita 1981-1982 (VT on AM oldies)
KADI, St. Louis 1982
KWK, St. Louis, 1984-1985
KYKY St. Louis 1985-1989 (MD)
KLOU, St. Louis, 1989
KSTZ, St. Louis, 1989-1990
KSD, St. Louis 1990-1992
KEZK, St. Louis, 1992
KTRS 1998
KSD, St. Louis, 2001-2005
KLOU, St. Louis 2003-2005
Dear God, please save me from adding to that list again.
Inspirations? Too many to list, and most are people no one has ever hear of- besides the Krewe of TIX, there were the Collins Twins on WNOE, anyone ever on WLS, and two guys from Baton Rouge named Robin Coco and Roy Shaw.
POBRYAN...sorry for the late response for your frequency check question...Th e old codger in Birmingham who did the midnite freq. checks was CLAUDE M GRAY....if he heard you he sent a verification card signed in green ink...giving your measured frequency....if he did not hear you....you got a card signed in red ink that said..."station not heard". Those were the days...and if you were on a congested freq. you got quite a few "red" cards. That's why it was done in the "experimental period" when stations could operate at full power without regular programming for test purposes. There were very few stations on after midnite, especially local fulltimers, at that time. We are talking 1953-1965. I will try to be more prompt in the future...and the folks at PAW PAW restaurant are wondering where you are! JBI
JBoyd, It was good to visit with you last while driving through Batesville last week. Sorry I could not spend more time. I had to get over to Helena. Tell PAW PAW I'll make it a priority the next time I'm in the area. Oh, Caude Gray was the man!! I just hated getting up at 3 AM to talk to him.
Dang it, J Boyd- is there anyone who worked in Mississippi radio you didn't know?
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