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over on the case board we've been talking about radios. old am radios, do any am stations play music any more ? i don't know of any central indiana stations that do. what about the rest of the U.S. ?
 
I too live in Central Indiana and I had an old AM radio on a Cub Cadet. It actually worked pretty well. I was limited on stations. The one thqat came in best was WIBC. Being from central Indiana too you are probably familar with that station.

Bigger question for me - does anyone know how to easily put a 12v radio on a 6v tractor and make it work?
 
Ya,13.80 in Greenville Michigan plays country oldies,14.30 in Ionia Michigan plays the same thing they played 40 years ago.

Somebody from there will probably chime in,but last I checked there were plenty of stations in the Ozarks and Appalachians that play country.
(When Pete Black's radio call in for sale and trade show is over) LOL
 
We have a local station that plays old music daytimes. There's an AM station out of Toronto that plays music that you can hear at night, 740 AM. You should be able to get it in IN.
 
Is WOWO Ft Wayne still on the air? Back when radio stations signed off at sun down,WOWO and WLS Chicago were about the only stations we could get. If the weather was right,WSM to listen to the Opry. And there was some Philidelphia station that faded in and out real late overnight.
 
We had a great station in macon that played the old country music, loved listning to it while mowing hay, and working in the shop. But on the 1'st of march, they changed over to the new country stuff, never have figured out where they get the country part of it, sounds more like scuba divers trying to sing under water.
 
Grew up listening to WLS in the 50's and WOWO in the 60's at night on a transistor radio about twice the size of a pack of cigarettes.
Richard in NW SC
 
yes, know it very well. used to have farm news. but my favorite was its sister station, the wrath of the buzzard WNAP!!
 
The bandwidth on AM is pretty narrow and the "highs" are cut on AM. AM music just doesn't sound too good, as compared to FM. Now as we got older, we lose the ability to hear the "highs" anyway, so maybe that's why a lot of music on AM is generally geared to what the older people listen to.
The advantage of AM radio waves is that it has the ability to follow the curve of the earth, where FM does not. That is why AM waves can travel further.
 
1480 AM plays Oldies from the sixties out of Grand Rapids. Also 1410 AM (Used to be WGRD) is the twenty four hour comedy station also out of Grand Rapids.
 
Yehbut, WOWO went from 50,000 watts to only 5,000 as I was told. Sold to some easterly station is what I heard. Grew up listening to Jay Gould in the Little Red Barn.
 
KDHL 920 Faribault, MN plays lots of country and old time dance music. They take requests for country oldies. Oldies meaning songs, not old people!!
 
they are still on, but its talk radio now, I don't know if they play any music at all. I am not a fan of talk radio so I don't listen to them any more, but back in the 70s and early 80s I listened to WOWO a lot through my headphone radio while I was out on the tractor. With a fresh battery I could listen to an FM station for a few hrs but after that WOWO was about I could hear.
 
Here in the St Louis area it's 1190 KQQZ.Good old country like on Willies Road House on SiRUS.You can get it on the web.Check it out at 10:00am.The owner of the station does a commentary.He does have some good points but he's also a little nutty.
 
WLW in Cincinnati is still a "blow torch" 50,000 AM station (talk only).

At one time, back in the day of Powell Crosley, they transmitted at 500,000 watts.

Dean
 
Wasn't it KMOX in St Louis that had so much power at one time they had to water cool the transmitter and at times you could hear the signal through a wire fence?
 
The WLW transmitter used water cooled power output tubes. They are shown in the photos.

Dean
 
I know of a couple AM stations in Iowa that still play music. 540 KWMT out of Fort Dodge plays older country and 1350 KRNT out of Des Moines plays mostly oldies if I recall correctly.
 
WOCC 1550 CORYDON IN, plays good ol rock.. grew up with waky 790 louisville,1350winn, played Charlie McCoy , ORAnge Blossom Special at 5 pm friday ...
 
980 wity Danville il all music and the local farm station if you want to hear Max talk farm reports. Maybe Orien Samuelson on occasion
 
This one did on a Saturday fore noon when I heard it.
KEOR Radio 1110 AM
P. O. Box 810
Atoka , OK 74525
580-889-3392
 
was this the same company that had tv stations, ruth lions 50-50 club and paul(baby)dixon ?
 
This is a great post, I listen to AM radio all the time on the computer in my shop. Now I have a lot more stations I can listen to. I can't get anything but static on an AM radio where I live. Please don't do anything to get it poofed til I get them all into my computer. I got to get to bed now.
 
That has more to do with the frequency of the carrier wave than with the type of modulation. Lower frequency waves tend to hug the curve of the Earth better than higher frequency waves. The U.S. Navy use ELF (around 3 cycles per second) to communicate with submarines around the world.

The AM band is between 530 thousand and 1,600 thousand cycles per second while the FM broadcast range is between 87.9 Million and 107.7 million cycles per second. I may be off a bit on the ends, but you get the idea.
 
Any of you recall that station in Del Rio, Texas, that you could hear clear to Canada. They had the transmitter set up in Mexico, therefore no FCC restrictions, I was told. Can't remember its call letters.

We had a pretty hot station here in my town, KWKH, that broadcast the Louisiana Hayride over a pretty large territory. It played country exclusively until just a few years ago. Jim Reeves and Nat Stuckey both DJ'd there until they broke into the music business.
 
There is one here in Asheboro, NC that plays country music, and has a "swap shop" twice daily. It still runs basically the Old fashioned format. For years it was WGWR but a conglomerate bought it and changed it to WKXR, "home of the kickin' chicken" They still cut the power down at sundown.
 
AM 660 in the thumb of Michigan plays country and farm markets, CFCO Am 630 Chatam, Ontario plays country and Farm markets for those in Southern Ontarion and South East, Michigan.
 
1290 WIRL in Peoria, IL plays classic country and still does a big ag block. As does, 1440 WPRS in Paris, IL.
I listen to WSM in Nashville - still has live DJ's and still plays good country.

AM is still my favorite.
 
On the internet Heartland Public radio-Country
Moose country FM 106.7 EauClaire Wi. Country
AM700 KSEV, The Voice of Texas has the Texas Car Doctor on Saturday
 
(quoted from post at 01:40:20 03/07/13) over on the case board we've been talking about radios. old am radios, do any am stations play music any more ? i don't know of any central indiana stations that do. what about the rest of the U.S. ?
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We've got a few daytimers in NC/NW IN and SW MI that still play music, at least part of the day. At least one has a nighttime license, but it has to cut the power down to where it won't reach here when the sun goes down. There's another station where anyone can buy a timeslot, and when nobody does, music plays--one minute it's Polish, the next it's pop music. There's not a long-range station among them. They play mostly oldies and country/classic country (the late 80's are now considered "oldies" by some stations) and most are programmed elsewhere. There's probably more music on the AM dial here than a decade ago, but that's not an impressive statement by any means.

At night, 650 WSM and 740 CZFM come in here.

WOWO in Ft. Wayne swapped liscense designations with another station (in the Northeast?) many years ago. It's still a daytime powerhouse, but the juice is about 1/5th what it was at night. They haven't played music for years. Earl Finkle would be making quips about just another March snowstorm that should have taken nobody by surprise (because he wasn't a weather-guesser) if he were around today.

AG
 
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