New "Toy"...

[Sandy G]

Got in that Model 3000-1 Trans-Oceanic I'd ordered from the guy I got my 621 T/S, Bill Kalcik in Wisconsin, back a few months ago. I HAVE another 3K-1, but this one is far better cosmetically & operationally. I'm THINKIN' its an older set, FM was still a big enuff "Deal" that they had a nationwide log of FM stations in the owners' manual, & there was a postcard from a Chicago FM station that advertised "Beautiful Music", along w/a list of all the OTHER FM stations in Chicagoland. I wanna put in a plug for Bill-Both items I've gotten from him were BETTER condition, I thought, than he'd advertised, the packing was superb, & while I paid a little more than what maybe some would have, big deal, I'm happy. He told me that he has like 2 warehouses full of "Goodies" he's wanting to get rid of. I think I'll be back as a customer..

[Username1]

Well put up a dam picture..................

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Username1

Well put up a dam picture..................

Here you go.


And while I'm at it here is another dam picture... Hoover to be precise.


Enjoy.

[Sandy G]

(Sigh...) Wish I could.. Too dam Stoopid..

[Sandy G]

The Hoover is a VERY impressive dam... Several TVA dams we have 'round here are somewhat impressive, too. NOTHIN' like THAT, though. Dated a gal back in '89 who lived in Turtletown, Tennessee, down in the FAR southeast corner of the state. LOTS of dams there, they were all built in the Thirties w/shovels. pickaxes, sweat & Dead Reckoming..

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

The Hoover is a VERY impressive dam... Several TVA dams we have 'round here are somewhat impressive, too. NOTHIN' like THAT, though. Dated a gal back in '89 who lived in Turtletown, Tennessee, down in the FAR southeast corner of the state. LOTS of dams there, they were all built in the Thirties w/shovels. pickaxes, sweat & Dead Reckoming..

At one time, the electrical service rates, were the lowest in the US, as it didn't depend of fossil fuels, to generate the power.
Canada must have a lot of dams, as they refer to their power bills as "Hydro" bills!

[Sandy G]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

At one time, the electrical service rates, were the lowest in the US, as it didn't depend of fossil fuels, to generate the power.
Canada must have a lot of dams, as they refer to their power bills as "Hydro" bills!

Yep. TVA went head over heels into Nukie power, spent 3 truckloads of money, & has really little to show for it. I maintain if they'd spent that on developing better, more efficient hydro generators, instead of shoveling it into the Nookie rathole, we'd been a LOT better off.. Maybe they could have developed mini-generators that coulda been stuck w/little cost & disruption on the myriad of streams & creeks around the Appalachians, maybe NONE of 'em could run an Atlanta, Charlotte, Richmond, but they COULD have run several SMALLER cities & towns. TVA bumps up against the top of their generating capacity constantly on hot days, & increasingly, on the Zero days like we had this past winter. No new, LARGE generating plants have been built in nearly 40 years, but DEMAND has skyrocketed.. NOT a good situation.

[old_tv_nut]

Which station was listed as the "beautiful music" station? We used to have a station in Chicago that played what most people would call elevator music. They were also the only station in Chicago that implemented Dolby FM noise reduction, and broadcast a calibration tone briefly every evening. They also had auxiliary programming on a (monaural) subcarrier with topics for doctors, sponsored by pharmaceutical companies.

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

... We used to have a station in Chicago that played what most people would call elevator music. They were also the only station in Chicago that implemented Dolby FM noise reduction, and broadcast a calibration tone briefly every evening. They also had auxiliary programming on a (monaural) subcarrier with topics for doctors, sponsored by pharmaceutical companies.

In New York City in the 60's we had about 3 or more "beautiful music" stations on FM, WPAT, WRFM, WTFM, and I think WVNJ. They probably had different flavors of this music, but it sounded the same to a kid wanting rock and roll. There's lots of elevators in NYC

I think it was WEVD that had an SCA subcarrier "Physicians Radio Network" that IIRC had spots similar to those drug commercials we see on TV nowadays. "See your copy of "Physicians Radio Network Journal" for the disclaimers and side effects that include death".

WNCN, today a classic rock station, was a classical music station that also broadcast a brief calibration tone.

I especially remember what they did with the Beatles' tunes.

You can find those covers on youtube...

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

Which station was listed as the "beautiful music" station? We used to have a station in Chicago that played what most people would call elevator music. They were also the only station in Chicago that implemented Dolby FM noise reduction, and broadcast a calibration tone briefly every evening. They also had auxiliary programming on a (monaural) subcarrier with topics for doctors, sponsored by pharmaceutical companies.

The station in Chicago with beautiful music may have been, and this is just a guess, WMAQ-FM (now WRQX-FM) 101.1. The station was operated by NBC at the time ('60s-1986), before the original NBC radio network was disbanded; it was, like most FMs of the '60s-'70s, entirely automated with elevator music.

Many FM stations carried elevator music when they first went on the air (to justify having a license, they had to put something on the air, even if it meant playing tapes over the transmitter), later switching to some other format. Here in northeastern Ohio, most FM stations in Cleveland carried automated elevator music for years before going to live rock formats. The last FM in this area to change from elevator music to rock was WREO-FM in Ashtabula, Ohio, near Lake Erie; it did so in 1990 or '91.


I don't know if any Cleveland FMs broadcast in Dolby at any time during the '70s. I think the classical station at the time (WCLV-FM, 95.5) was the only station that even experimented with Dolby; if it did, the experiments only lasted a short time.

[Sandy G]

It says "WCLR 102 FM", & has a line drawing of "Big John" on it, so I assume they broadcast from the John Hancock Tower.

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

It says "WCLR 102 FM", & has a line drawing of "Big John" on it, so I assume they broadcast from the John Hancock Tower.

That's the one.

[Username1]

EM; that's a dam nice Dam picture......


WPAT 93.1 in Paterson, NJ "Beautiful Music 24hrs a day" My parents listened to it all the time, until it became a
Spanish station... When I was a kid I didn't know other music existed until I got my own radio....... Good
thing that happened real early....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPAT-FM

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[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Username1

EM; that's a dam nice Dam picture......

Thanks, but they are not my dam pictures. I just grabbed them off the interwebs for comedic effect...

[Sandy G]

They put their phone # on there-312-677-5900, & their motto-"The ULTIMATE Blend-In Beautiful Music !", along w/a sampling of what they'd play-"April in Portugal"-by Enoch Light,"Close To You"- Ronnie Aldrich, "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head-Hugo Winterhalter.. "Beautiful Music" stations NEVER apparently played the originals, just "Emasculated" cover versions.