Billy didn't play anything but country. He'd be at a loss today.
Kgwa Enid
Yep, I used to put one under my pillow so I could listen to the radio without my parents knowing.
When I was a teenager my scout troop went to a canoe base in northern Wisconsin. We listened to KOMA the whole trip from here.
WKY was the first radio west of the Mississippi river and had a W as the first letter. after that all radio stations west of Mississippi started with a K.
WKY was forced to change to K starting letter in the ???
Also Koma at a fixed time at night could turn up the wattage.
Radio signals are very odd. Especially AM the way it can bounce off the ionosphere. I grew up in Denver, and KOA was a clear channel station that ruled the night there (and elsewhere).
Incidentally, I used to run an FM station in Tulsa, which at the time was a small 3K watts, but it was the only tower in Tulsa proper. We received a postcard from a DX'er (a long distance-listener that scans the dial looking for the furthest signal they can pull in) in Maine once who identified what we were playing one night about 11:45pm until we signed-off at midnight. We couldn't cover all of the Metro, be we managed to get to Maine that night. FM is usually a line-of-sight type of signal, but something must have been just right that night. When I wrote him back verifying that the info was correct (they always want a response sent back on letterhead), I neglected to ask what his receiving gear was. Probably wasn't the little transistor radio that I used to sneak into Elementary school to listen to the World Series.
Incidentally, I used to run an FM station in Tulsa, which at the time was a small 3K watts, but it was the only tower in Tulsa proper. We received a postcard from a DX'er (a long distance-listener that scans the dial looking for the furthest signal they can pull in) in Maine once who identified what we were playing one night about 11:45pm until we signed-off at midnight. We couldn't cover all of the Metro, be we managed to get to Maine that night. FM is usually a line-of-sight type of signal, but something must have been just right that night. When I wrote him back verifying that the info was correct (they always want a response sent back on letterhead), I neglected to ask what his receiving gear was. Probably wasn't the little transistor radio that I used to sneak into Elementary school to listen to the World Series.
Heck yes, haven't thought about that in a long, long time.
I’d like to find an NOS kit to play with
