turkeytop wrote:

Saul wrote:

Radiowiz wrote:

 

I can't see classical either. Something along the lines of an AM-740 format with some of the same content could work quite well, with some local focus to replace what's about Toronto.

That would be the same reasoning used by the Toronto elitists at CBC to flip Radio II from a classical and jazz  format to its All Garage Band format. They don't believe the listeners in small town Canada are capable of appreciating fine music. They had to dumb it down for us rubes out here.
 

TT Using Little Steven's definition of Garage rock to include 60's bands such as The Standells, Chocolate Watchband, The 13 Floor Elevators or the Syndicate of  Sound or 70's garage such as DMZ or The Dead Boys, or 80's neo garage such as the Chesterfield Kings or Fleshtones. Don't think the CBC Radio two plays much of that.

or is your definition of garage anything that fits the triple A/Alt rock format which is the largest chunk of their format. Nevertheless you can very occasional hear classic garage rock or even top 40 on CBC Radio Two but I wonder when was the last time they played Psychotic Reaction by the Count Five ?
 

Sad but perhaps not surprising . This is what the folks on the Steve Hoffman Forum are saying

This  exceptionally well recorded time capsule was contributed to the site by Ray Fox. This was a commentary that David Marsden did a few iterations  of around 1979. I have heard one clip of a different version  of this on the web but the quality of that one is poor.

Welcome to North America David Marsden CFNY 1979

I have used the service since 2018 and for a music geek like me it's worth having.

I have it in one car but I don't use that car much and so I use the APP to listen in the older car. I have six music channel favorites. Deep Tracks, 60;'s Gold, Underground Garage, The Loft, The Beatles Channel and the Grateful Dead Channel. I listen in the car once or twice per week and occasionally at home.

Deep Tracks does play a lot of the music I heard on progressive FM in the 70's like Caravan, Pentangle and so many others. Today I heard Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine by Country Joe and the Fish and I have not heard that on terrestrial radio for decades.

Undergrounds Garage is very eclectic and not strictly garage rock but that is the basic inspiration. Today I heard Sheila by Tommy Row, Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere by the Who and a track by the Nervous Eaters. They also play quite a bit of 60's R&B. The only place on the radio that regularly features Power Pop like the Dwight Twilley Band and the Raspberries. Once upon a time I used to hear sets like this on WUWU FM from Buffalo.

Anyway with the recent downgrade of Deep Tracks channel number , think I should start recording that and the other channels I like before they are gone. I have done some recording of the service over the last 5 years but it's been to experiment by recording to the unwieldly 8 track format or put the service through my AM stereo transmitter. 

Could me a moment like 1983/84 when I realized that I had to save Gary Storm's Oil of Dog program on WUWU for posterity and recorded hours of it. Was basically the last truly free form radio  ( on a commercial station) I heard in these parts and it was clear that such freedom would not last.

 

I was listening to SIR/XM  Deep Tracks and Meg Griffin was filling in for Jim Ladd who passed away at the age of 75 on Sat. His wife wanted the announcement made at the start of his show and MG performed that sad task. She is no longer a regular on the station.

Anyway this is one of the tracks that she played and I had to turn it up:

The Beach Boys - Marcella



and here's a few others that I like to turn up.

The Specials - International Jet Set



Bowie - Man Who Sold The World



Byrds - Change Is Now











  

RadioAaron wrote:

The move of Deep Tracks stood out to me.

It was always used as an example of something satellite radio did that FM couldn't/wouldn't.

The way they position and promote channels seems to show that most of the listening is happening to stations that sound more like what's viable in commercial radio.

Well they still could/should use it as an example of something that FM doesn't anymore but I was not happy with the move to a much higher channel. Was listening on Sunday or Monday when post time change they played a whole bunch of tracks with the word darkness, Was waiting for Darkness, Darkness by the Youngbloods but they played a version by Ritchie Havens.  Still a nice throwback to when DJ's would do stuff like that. Earl Bailey was the announcer.
 

What is puzzling about this is her appearance. She looks indigenous and has since the 1960's.

citats wrote:

This actually happens all the time the other way around with WDCX HD and their analog signal being received by CKKW listeners. Not to say it doesn't happen to WDCX however I am only privy to the reverse occurrences. The periodic take overs are caused by "Tropospheric Ducting".
We use this site to get a TD forecast especially in the warmer months. https://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo.html

I had this happen about two years ago during a tropo. 107.7 from Buffalo was coming in and their HD 2 got taken over by a Syracuse station but the main channel remained the Buffalo one.
 

mace wrote:

My car radio does not have HD capability, so I don't have issues with those Rochester stations during tropo. 98.9 is always the easiest to receive for me, 97.9 the most difficult. I was just surprised that PXY was booming in while The Buzz was nowhere to be found.

Actually not having a HD radio does not make a difference to the adjacent channel interference caused by it once  there is such a signal the damage is done, so to speak, to the other station.
 

The tape had gotten a tremendous positive reaction when it was first posted in 2014. People asked the original poster to upload lossless files of it and he obliged. One of his last posts spoke to the fact that someone had without his permission put up CD's of it for sale. He was not happy.

People have even made different mixes including a mono fold down from the original stereo.

Her cover of the French Girl written by Ian Tyson is great and the other songs including a cover of Dylan's Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues also shine.

Took Columbo like sleuthing just recently for one person to solve the mystery.  Somehow they made the connection from the Doors Live at the Matrix club in 1967 to a Marvin Gardens gig there in 1968.

49 pages on the thread and at least 40 had accumulated in the 9 years before the mystery was solved.

EDIT : I found the post on the SH board where the poster expalns how they resolved the mystery.

Abkco said: ↑
@monkboughtlunch - I’m shocked you connected the dots. How did you do it? How did you stumble onto this?
@Abkco Through my superior powers of deductive reasoning. (I'm kidding!  )

Like most folks on the forum, I listened to Mike's wonderful 1967 dorm recording back in 2014 and a few times since. The mystery singer's voice was distinctive enough that my brain filed it away in my subconscious.

I recently picked up a new CD release which Peter Abram engineered, entitled: The Doors Live At The Matrix 1967: The Original Recordings. [color=#141414]I read an article which noted that Matrix club co-owner Peter Abram recorded virtually every band that performed at The Matrix

Saul wrote:

Fitz wrote:

I just got The Light FM from North Carolina at 10.6.9. Indicative of the coming demise of radio is the fact that there are now so many religious stations. I guess they grab the frequencies others can't afford.

This station apparently has a great transmitter location. This is my farthest catch on this current tropo.

 

Congrats on a great catch, Fitz. I would hate you but for the fact I also nailed it during a somewhat productive trip to the Scarborough Bluffs, where I also heard FM from Maryland and West Virginia. My first NC FM station via tropo from Toronto. Funnily enough, I heard it in 2003 from my DX site in the Kawarthas. It was my first ever NC FM station via Tropo there, too.

Nice when were you at the Scarborough bluffs. I grew up there and we had an outdoor antenna which was great for reception but I was not into Dx'ing in those days but I do remember a few times when I got distant stations on FM. One day  some Florida stations were coming in. Rochester and WCMFFM  was a semi-regular for me and also Ithaca and Syracuse.
 

Here is the rest of the audio I recorded on that DX last week. I think this tape was recorded on Sept 3-5th.

Clip one

1. WEGW Eagle 107.5 Wheeling West Virginia
2. WKZA Lakewood, NY Kissin' Oldies,  ( I was happy that they played Mr Dieingly Sad)
3. Mega Rock WMKX, Brookville, Penn
4. 93.9 Virgin Radio Windsor
5. Hot 107.5 WGPR Detroit
6. Bounce 103.7 Brockville, On
7. CFBU 103.7 Brock Radio. St Catharines, On
The last two stations are not that distant but I recorded them when the pattern had ended but both were coming in at the same time if you played with the antenna. The most common station for me at that frequency is Star 104 from Erie.

Bonus Clip Two - nothing to do with DX'ing but something that I read about on the internet about an anomaly after the fade out on a double sided hit Stones single released in the 60's. I have the original copy of the Canadian single and the anomaly is not on there, though it is on the US single. I have the songs on a few releases  and did find one that has the anomaly after the fadeout on both songs.

Anyone care to guess what the anomaly is ? 

RadioActive wrote:

It sounds like you're having problems posting oversize pics to the Boardhost sites. I'm not sure exactly what happened, but there was a serious glitch with their coding a while ago and it still may not be fixed. 

Here's my preferred way to post pics here. It's free, it's simple, you don't have to create an account and it works. 

https://postimages.org/

It lets you upload almost anything from your PC or phone, and you can even control the size. Once the pic is uploaded, simply choose "Hotlinks for Forums" and paste it into your message. Works every time for me.  

Thank you for the tip. I will use it here. This is the pic I took of the RDS reading for the Cleveland station that I got last Sunday. Obscured in one corner as I did not have tie to remove the phone cover:

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RadioActive wrote:

A thought-provoking piece from one of my favourite radio writers, who covers the medium in L.A. The references he makes are to local stations there, but they could certainly be applied to our own in Toronto. See if you agree with his conclusions that the old style of Top 40 - where listeners could hear Mama Cass followed by Cream - was far more attractive to listeners than the narrow one-genre-only we have now. 

And he believes it may be one way out of the radio wilderness so many outlets now find themselves in. 

"Sean Ross...writes in RadioInsight.com that most people fondly remember their own top 40 listening days from “when top 40 played it all,” and you have the answer: play it all.

"Top 40 has always thrived when it played it all and has always stagnated when it limited itself. You saw it happen with too much “bubblegum,” too much disco, too much country, too much of “the Miami sound,” too much grunge and too much hip-hop. All of those eras had temporary success, but ultimately led to ratings declines as listeners left for other stations."

It may not be the answer. But maybe it's worth a shot.

Why oldies stations might be showing us the future of radio

Speaking of Cass and Cream.  A pic from her house in Laurel Canyon from 1968. Maybe dreaming a dream outside the white room with black curtains. You may recognize a few other luminaries.

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