Hey all, we are getting very close to going live with our part 15 station and I think I have decided on Spirit of the Radio - Rush. What was your first song when your part 15 went live ? 🙂
Groo
was "Song of the South" by Alabama. My Part15 AM signed on July 27, 2003.
I think thats awesome 🙂 I can see that you are into country. Do you play any old school honky tonk or bluegrass as well?
Groo
Yes, I play everything I can get my hands on 🙂 I am now playing country from the 1950s to the present. Some album cuts I have are pretty cool.
I have been with the country format for 10 years. Strangely enough, country was a format I always wanted to do during my radio career, but never did. I'm loving it now.
I don't remember what got played first on my Part 15 station which started in 2007, but I remember a few other firsts.
!n 1961 the first station to hold a license locally for 102.5 FM put their transmitter on a 19-story building with antenna on a zepplin rack! Yes! When the building was erected by a visionary millionaire he was sure that zepplins would become the air transport of the future, and he had a little tower where the zepplin could attach a tow line like an air ship. Fortunately the zeplin tower was perfect for FM antennas ever since.
Anyway, the engineer had previously been in charge of the carrier current stations at veterans hospitals. He got the FM transmitter hooked up, plugged in a microphone and said, "Testing 1 - 2 - 3 - 4."
When a local university built a 100kW FM station I had the first shift on the first day, and my opening record was a small odd fanfare by Maurice Ravel, which is a rare recording, about 2-minutes.
When 1380 all sports changed format this spring they played a ticking clock for 48-hours straight, and then the new all woman format started.
Just don't ever play a last song.
im sorry.. all woman format? why is that funny to me? Could you imagine if someone in my neck of the woods tried to start an All Man Format? Holy carp.. the fit would hit the shan for sure...
I played The Cowboy Song by Thin Lizzie for my first song.
When MLR Manteca went quiet.. the last song played was "Geronimos Cadillac" as performed by Malone Noocheez..
The same company that owns 1380 The Woman also owns 590 The Man.
No Joke. Plenty of jock. 590 The Man is a kind of macho plus sports station.
Words like "ugsome" come very near to being said.
By the way, I hang outside the door of The Woman, hoping for a change in luck.
HA!
In the late spring of 1969, I saw
for the first time - a Part 15 AM station
that went about 500 feet. (I was
absolutely certain in my mind that 500 feet
with 100 mW on about 1600 kHz
was impossible!) But this small distance was
enough for the kid across the street
to listen to the signal. The transmitter was
a Lafayette 990177 phono oscillator into
a 10 foot antenna. (All of it was in the
basement.) Across the street the other kid that was
listening was using a Knight Kit R-100A
communications receiver. I don't
remember what the receiving antenna was.
I do rememer the reading on the S meter
of the R-100A. It was holding steady at S-6.
(I hadn't seen the station yet. The first place
I rode my bike to was the receiving point.)
I heard my friend talking through the R-100A
speaker. I ran across the street as fast as
I could to see his station for the first time.
As I ran in the door, and looked over this
wonderous bunch of equipment he had put
together - he put on "Spinning Wheel," by
"Blood Sweat And Tears." I was 14 years old.
And that was it. After that things would never
be the same.
Bruce, DOGRADIO
And THAT, Bruce, is so bloody inspiring and awesome.
Thank you mlr, I sure do appreciate that!
Bruce, DOGRADIO