[ARC5] AM BCB Frequencies
Christopher Bowne
aj1g at sbcglobal.net
Tue Feb 15 19:36:18 EST 2022
Well I expect that our local WBLQ 1230 AM
1KW 24/7 in Westerly RI will keep on going. It’s not quite a Mom and Pop AMer, but it’s owned and run by a couple of True Believers in the concept of local broadcast radio that’s reflected in the programming. Great music content focusing on 60s through the 80s, with some newer stuff. Morning local sports and talk, local Town Manager (Westerly) and First Selectwoman (Stonington CT) are each on the morning show weekly. Veterans Hour weekly, What’s Your Business spotlighting local businesses and business people weekly, Resiliency Radio that focuses on environmental issues weekly, Mann about Town (husband and wife the Manns) with feature content of local interest. Saturdays daytime, after a bunch of locals have a sports call in show, is The Time Machine, classic top forty in the style of the golden years of NYC’s WNBC 660 and 77 WABC, lots of old school style jingles, station IDs, and heavy reverb on the DJs. Sunday has two hours of That’s Amore, Frank, Deano, Lou Monte, and other Italian musicians, comedy bits by Pat Cooper (lots of Calabrese in Westerly, Sicilianos in Pawcatuck section of Stonington), then several hours of Sunday Jazz Brunch. Rest of Sunday features a number of syndicated rock programs Nothing But Old 45s, One Hit Wonders, and a Beatles show.
Broadcasts local high school football and basketball games and a local basketball Christmas Tournament. Also the annual Westerly Stonington Thanksgiving Day football game. In 2020, when the game was not played due to COVID, they rebroadcast the 1998 game, which my son and many others his age still in the area had played in. Their kids had the unique experience of listening to a football game that their fathers were playing in.
And great live coverage during hurricanes, nor’easters and blizzards. During Hurricane Sandy, the station manager broadcast from the transmitter site on the banks of the Pawcatuck River after feed from downtown studio went down with all the power. Took calls and patched callers in through his personal cell phone with the transmitter emergency generator roaring away in the background, and water coming onto the floor of the building at high tide.
They are one of only the very few US AM stations still broadcasting in AM Stereo, although one wonders if any of their listeners are actually receiving in stereo. They recently added on a stereo simulcast FM transponder on 103.1, and of course like everyone else, “stream worldwide via the Internet”. They are very good about keeping extremely clean audio quality unlike many over-compressed and overly bassy stations where loudness is all that matters.
Long live local AM radio!
Chris B. AJ1G
Stonington CT
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> On Feb 15, 2022, at 16:47, K2GKK D C_Mac_ Macdonald <k2gkk at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I freely admit my time in Germany was
> from 1967 to 1971. Memories do fade!
>
> 73 de Mac, K2GKK/5
> Licensed 30 Nov 1953
> Oklahoma City, OK
> USAF (Retired) 61-81
> FAA (Retired) 94-10
>
>
> From: spr at earthlink.net <spr at earthlink.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 10:33
> To: K2GKK D C_Mac_ Macdonald <k2gkk at hotmail.com>; releazer at earthlink.net <releazer at earthlink.net>; ARC-5 Mail List <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] AM BCB Frequencies
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> 9 KHz, actually.
>
> /scott robinson
> -----Original Message-----
> From: K2GKK D C_Mac_ Macdonald <k2gkk at hotmail.com>
> Sent: Feb 15, 2022 7:57 AM
> To: releazer at earthlink.net <releazer at earthlink.net>, ARC-5 Mail List <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] AM BCB Frequencies
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>
> Do European BCB stations use 11 kHz separations?
> I seem to remember that from my 4 years in Germany.
>
> 73 de Mac, K2GKK/5
> Licensed 30 Nov 1953
> Oklahoma City, OK
> USAF (Retired) 61-81
> FAA (Retired) 94-10
>
>
> From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net <arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of releazer at earthlink.net <releazer at earthlink.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 07:13
> To: arc5 at ix.netcom.com <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>; arc5 at mailman.qth.net <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: [ARC5] AM BCB Frequencies
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> "In April 1925, the band was further expanded to 550-1500 khz, providing 15 additional Class A frequencies. In June 1926, however, the Attorney General issued an opinion that the Commerce Department, under the 1912 act, had no power to regulate frequencies of stations, and a number of stations moved to frequencies which they wished to use, regardless of interference to other stations, even taking split channels (frequencies that were not exact multiples of 10 khz). In 1927 the Congress enacted a new Radio Act, creating the Federal Radio Commission, and gave it power to make frequency assignments."
>
> So the 10 KHZ channel spacing was established Very Early, first by policy and then by Law. Modern digital AM BCB receivers cannot even tune tighter than 10 KHZ.
>
> Wayne
> WB5WSV
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