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Originally Posted by Adam
I have a Zenith Royal 16 next to the "throne", and use this old plastic Motorola clock radio: http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/att...1&d=1197097547
I remember when I was in Michigan a few years ago and I bought this radio there was an AM station I really liked, it said it played "oldies", but set itself a bit older than most oldies stations, focusing on the music of the 50s with some 40s and early 60s, while laying off of the late 60s and 70s stuff, unfortunately I don't remember the call letters, WHNY? maybe. Last time I was there I couldn't find it again. |
That station may well have been what was WHMD, 560 kHz, in Monroe, Michigan (suburban Detroit). It was then an oldies station, but operated daytime only (500 or 1,000 watts, IIRC). I lived in a suburb of Cleveland at the time (some 30 years ago) and used to listen to that station quite a bit, as I like oldies. The suburb in which I lived at the time was perhaps three miles or so from the south shore of Lake Erie, so I could hear stations from Detroit and across the lake in Ontario very well, including CKLW in Windsor.
WHMD probably dumped the oldies some time ago and flipped to some other format, as have most other U.S. AM stations; they may be operating full-time as well, taking advantage of FCC rules which now give daytimers (broadcast engineering lingo meaning "daytime only", i.e. sunrise to sunset) the option of staying on the air full time, with reduced power and, in most cases, directional signal patterns after local sunset.
I live somewhat closer to Lake Erie now than I did 30 years ago (I am about a mile from the south shore), so I can hear quite a few Detroit stations, as well as stations from southwestern Ontario, Canada and northwest Ohio when the FM band opens up in the summer. On my MJ1035, I get so many stations during band openings (seems as if the entire dial is wall-to-wall FM during openings [!], using only a 6' length of zip cord as an antenna) it makes it difficult to find one of my favorite oldies stations (102.5 WZOO-FM, which is probably being wiped out by a Detroit or SW Ontario station on the same frequency; Buffalo, NY has a station on 102.5 but I don't think that station is swamping the oldies station, as Buffalo is a bit too far from here for their stations' signals to reach me, although I do hear at least two of the city's AM stations now and again when I tune across the band.....ESPN sports WGR 550 and all-news WBEN 930).