August 8-14, 2017, Logs by Larry Will, from the Lost River Grill in Lost City, WV, and Lost River State Park and Big Ridge Campground, Mathias, WV. Tecsun PL-600, Tecsun PL-660, Icom IC-R75, 100 foot long wire at 40 feet, and various random wires.
Hardy County is an excellent DX location. The noise floor is very low. Conditions were superior on FM, good to very good on AM and fair to good on shortwave.
The biggest surprise station we logged was WVMR 1370 in Frost, Virginia. This is the only AM staion I've heard in many years that played NPR News. WVMR is a 5 kilowatt daytimer and is part of a network of flea powered FMs that comprise "Allegheny Mountain Radio", a community based network serving Pocahontas County, West Virginia and Bath and Highland Counties in Virginia. They are the only radio stations operating in this area since it's in the National Radio Quiet Zone surrounding the radio telescopes in Green Bank. The station's format is completely freeform and we heard a variety of very interesting music programmed by local volunteers.
WFWM 91.9 in Frostburg is a public radio station that also plays a wide variety of music. They run classical during the daytime, but in the evenings they range from jazz to bluegrass to nostalgia and everything in between. This station is also very entertaining.
WWNL 1080 Pittsburgh wins the prize for the weirdest oddball religious station we heard. The local WBTX 1470/102.1 is also a unique religious station. WBTX is the only place we heard religious redneck country music, and like WWNL, they played a lot of oddball preaching and religious talk shows.
On shortwave, it was entertaining to listen to WINB in Red Lion, Pennsylvania on 9265. We are too close at home in Maryland to ever get much of a signal from WINB. They play a lot of crazy, bizarre religious programming and nutty, paranoid preachers. Much of their programming is even more bizarre than Brother Scare, if such a thing is possible.
Sports talk radio appears to be on a serious decline. There don't seem to be nearly as many stations running this format as there have been in the recent past. Classic hits appears to be the big format used by AMers who are trying to survive with their newly acquired FM translators. Religion and Jesus pop music formats are now all over the place, and seem to be sprouting up all over the FM band now.
In our completely subjective format breakdown below, I've split the country format in two. Modern contry music is a weird thing to my ears. The format seems to be some kind of odd pop music hybrid and a lot of the music is incomprehensible to me. (Brad, Val and Jane classify modern country music another way: "This sucks!") The other type of country format is what we call redneck music, or the more traditional "get in the truck bitch you look so fine in your cutoff jeans let's go to the bar/cryin' in your beer" music.
And, we really liked hearing the outlaw country/southern rock format on WBCN 1660 Charlotte in the late afternoons. This new station IDs as "947 Smoke".
Stations logged on the broadcast bands:
Formats heard on the broadcast bands:
Religious 22
Talk 21
Classic hits 18
Sports talk 12
Redneck country 11
News/talk 9
Modern country 9
Jesus pop 9
Adult contemporary 9
NPR 6
Classic rock 5
Freeform music 3
Top 40 3
Rock 2
Spanish 2
Classical 1
Bollywood music 1
Jazz 1
88.3 August 8 at 1536, WOTC Edinburg VA, "K-Love" religious pop music. (Will-WV)
88.9 August 8 at 1536, WVEP Martinsburg WV, NPR, West Virginia Public Broadcasting. (Will-WV)
89.1 August 10 at 1439. WVTF Roanoke VA, NPR show "Fresh Air" in the slop from 88.9, ID "WVTF". (Will-WV)
89.5 August 8 at 1536, WVDS Petersburg WV, NPR, West Virginia Public Broadcasting. (Will-WV)
89.9 August 9 at 1549, WPER Culpeper VA, Religious financial talk. August 12 at 1641, ad for "encouraging radio app" and ID "Your PER". (Will-WV)
90.1 August 9 at 1550, WVRS Gore VA, Religious pop music, fair signal. August 11 at 1616, gospel music, ID "The Point", into religious talk. (Will-WV)
90.1 August 13 at 1445, WPVA Waynesboro VA, Jesus pop music, ID "Spirit FM", commercial for putting your spots on Spirit FM (nice use of your noncommercial license, there.) (Will-WV)
90.3 August 8 at 1536, WAIJ Grantsville MD, American Family Radio. August 9 at 2151, an anti-transgender diatribe "by the grace of Jesus", "Washington Watch" with "Dr Jerry Newcomb", citing questionable statistics such as "90 percent of transgenders regret it", into a story about a transgender who regretted it and became a christian. August 12 at 1908, talk about the "Ark Encounter" amusement park in Kentucky, whose owner, Ken Ham, has got the LGBTQ crowd all "ticked" because of the rainbow, "how dare you take the rainbow flag from the LGBTQ community" the host says, sarcastically. Parallel 91.1. (Will-WV)
90.5 August 13 at 1444, WJYJ Fredericksburg VA, PER with commercials and jesus pop, bothered by much stronger 90.7. (Will-WV)
90.7 August 8 at 1536, WRMA Harrisonburg VA, NPR, "On Point". August 9 at 1910, Hank Williams Jr song "There's a tear in my beer" intros a segment about whether breakups cause alcohol abuse. (Will-WV)
91.1 August 8 at 1536, WTRM Winchester VA, American Family Radio. August 11 at 1904, oh no! Ben Gozzy conspiracy heating up again. 91.1 is only 75 watts. Parallel 90.3. (Will-WV)
91.3 August 8 at 2033, WQAB Philippi WV, NPR News. (Will-WV)
91.5 August 9 at 2045, WLUR Lexington VA, classical music, fair signal. (Will-WV)
91.7 August 8 at 1536, WEMC Harrisonburg VA, talk, classical music. (Will-WV)
91.9 August 8 at 1536, WFWM Frostburg, MD, classical music. August 9 at 2241, old school jazz music by John Coltrane. August 12 at 1409, NPR show "Car Squalk". August 12 at 1828, bluegrass and celtic-style bluegrass music, Sparky the fire dog PSA (sparky dot org), Dave Van Ronk's "Duncan and Brady". August 12 at 2212, 1940s nostalgia music, Gershwin, Gene Kelly, etc. (Will-WV)
92.5 August 8 at 1857, WINC Winchester VA, Country music. ID, "WINC FM" and commercial for Southern New Hampshire University at 1828. (Will-WV)
93.1 August 8 at 1536, WFGM Barrackville WV, modern country music. (Will-WV)
93.1 August 9 at 2225, WSVO Staunton VA, A/C music, Santana, Cyndi Lauper. (Will-WV)
93.3 August 12 at 1501, WQZS Meyersdale PA, Politics talk, Let Freedom Reign, Lincoln Institute, at 1530, "WQZS Myersdale Somerset" into mellow music. (Will-WV)
93.7 August 8 at 1536, WAZR Woodstock VA, top 40, iheart commercials, "93-7 Now" ID at 1807. (Will-WV)
94.1 August 8 at 1536, WQZK Keyser WV, Top 40, rap-pop music, "94-1 QZK" at 1901. (Will-WV)
94.5 August 12 at 2110, WRVQ Richmond VA, Every time this station appeared I was unable to ID because apparently all they play is commercials. Two stations here now, one playing music by Genesis, "In the air tonight" and the other playing an infomercial for a health supplement. ID "Q-94's summer sendoff". (Will-WV)
94.7 August 10 at 1439, WIAD Washington DC. Five minutes of commercials, ID "94.7 Fresh FM". (Will-WV)
95.1 August 10 at 1448, WQMZ Charlottesville VA, pop music, "Uptown Funk". (Will-WV)
95.5 August 9 at 1554, WBPO Buffalo Gap VA, Religious pop music. (Will-WV)
95.7 August 13 at 1456, Unid, preaching. (Will-WV)
96.1 August 8 at 1536, WQMR Broadway VA, A/C. August 9 at 1554, commercial for Green Valey Book Fair in Mt. Crawford, PSA for report a drug dealer dot com. August 12 1t 1505, "WQMR Broadway Harrisonburg". (Will-WV)
96.5 August 9 at 1557, WKYE Johnstown PA, Music, Aha "Take On Me", ID "96 Key", into Sheila E "Glamorous Life". (Will-WV)
95.9 August 8 at 1901, WKTZ Loch Lynn Heights MD, classic hits ID, "WKTZ FM Lock Lynn Heights 95.1". (Will-WV)
96.9 August 8 at 1536, WSIG Mount Jackson VA, Redneck country music, ID "96-9 WSIG". August 12 at 2212, "Bluegrass Saturday Night" show with contemporary bluegrass. At 0209 Sunday August 13 the host is taking requests; appearently everyone wants to hear reefer music, as he played "Wildwood Weed" by Jim Stafford and "Granny Woncha Smoke Some Marijuana" by John Hartford. Very good freeform bluegrass show. (Will-WV)
97.1 August 9 at 1722, WLIC Frostburg MD, Preaching, bibling. August 11 at 1852, religious pop music. August 13 at 1457, ID "Reveal FM WLIC Frostburg Cumberland". (Will-WV)
97.5 August 8 at 1536, WLFT Martinsburg WV, Adult contemporary/80s music. (Will-WV)
98.1 August 8 at 1903, WFGY Altoona PA, news. August 10 at 1449, "forever altoona dot com" and "Froggy 98". August 12 at 1415, redneck country music. (Will-WV)
98.3 August 8 at 1536, WKSI Stephens City VA, Top 40. (Will-WV)
98.5 August 8 at 1536, WACL Elkton VA, Classic rock, "98 Rock". (Will-WV)
99.1 August 8 at 1536, WRKW Edensburg PA, Classic rock. August 9 at 1722, commercial "Before your wife gets hot under the collar call the AC man". August 10 at 1414, "The Laurel Highland's Rock Station Rocky 99" into Ronnie Dio "Rainbow in the Dark", occasionally bothered by WDCH Bowie MD with Bloomberg News. (Will-WV)
99.3 August 8 at 1536, WFRX Luray VA, Rock music. August 10 at 1419, music by Van Halen, ID "Woodstock spells rock F-O-X 99-3 the Fox". (Will-WV)
99.5 August 8 at 1603, WDZN Midland MD, Classic hits, Earth Wind & Fire "September". August 9 at 1558, ID "WDZN". August 12 at 1653, music by Rick Springfield and Blondie, ID "9905 QZM". (Will-WV)
99.7 August 8 at 1603, WCYK Staunton VA, Redneck country music, ID "Hit Kicker 99.7". August 12 at 1510, ID "Hit kicker and only hit kicker 99.7". (Will-WV)
100.1 August 8 at 1603, WVMD Romney WV, Redneck country music, Fox news, ID "The tri-state's new country 100.1 in Romney, 99.9 in Cumberland, The Wolf". August 12 at 1435, spot for Allegheny Radio. (Will-WV)
100.3 August 8 at 1603, Unid, commercial for John Tesh radio show, mellow A/C music. (Will-WV)
100.5 August 9 at 1604, WDYK Ridgeley WV, ID "Magic 100.5" and into Fox News. (Will-WV)
100.7 August 8 at 1603, WQPO Harrisonburg VA, A/C, "Q101", "The valley's hit station". (Will-WV)
101.1 August 8 at 1603, WWPN Westernport MD, Religious pop music. August 9 at 1638, ID "WWPN Today's Christian music". August 12 at 1516, commercial for Oral Roberts University, commercial for Rock Of Ages restaurant in Cumberland with worship service on Sunday. August 12 at 2114, ID "Spirit 101" and a commercial, "Rat and mice problem? Get plug-in pest free!" (Will-WV)
101.3 August 8 at 1900, WBRB Buckhannon WV, Country music. (Will-WV)
101.3 August 12 at 1854, Unid, Sports, ESPN app commercial, fair signal. (Will-WV)
101.5 August 8 at 1603, WBHB Waynesboro PA, Alt-rock metalpop. August 10 at 1422, ID "Bob Rocks". Good signal, splattered by local 101.7. (Will-WV)
101.7 August 8 at 1606, WELD Moorefield WV, Country music, news and weather, "Noon time round-up show", farm news at 1620. (Will-WV)
102.1 August 8 at 1606, W271CC Broadway VA, old school redneck christian country music, fair signal, parallel WBTX 1470. August 12 at 1655, right wing talk show discussing "migrants" and harshly criticizing the Southern Poverty Law Center for calling out religious organizations as hate groups just because they hate homosexuals. Show "in the market with Janet Marshall dot org", WBTX ID at 1700. August 12 at 1854, "get your southern gospel gift certificate...right here on WBTX". (Will-WV)
102.5 August 8 at 1606, WUSQ Winchester VA, Country music. August 12 at 1438, ID "Q102". August 12 at 1517, commercial for "Handi Mart". (Will-WV)
102.9 August 8 at 1606, WLTK New Market VA, "K-Love" religious pop music. August 12 at 1516, talking about "germy things" in hotel rooms. (Will-WV)
103.3 August 8 at 1606, WCTF Wardensville WV, "K-Love" religious pop music. (Will-WV)
103.7 August 9 at 1638, WQWV Fisher WV, Pets for sale. August 10 at 1425, music by the Police, Def Leppard, etc. August 11 at 1543, ID "Jack FM" and into "Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osborne. August 12 at 1438, music by Rush. (Despite being very close to us, this station only came in occasionally. 310 watts.) (Will-WV)
103.9 August 12 at 1855, WYFT Luray VA, choral religious music. (Will-WV)
104.3 August 8 at 1606, WKCY Harrisonburg VA, iheart Vegas concert promo, ID "KCY", modern country music. (Will-WV)
104.7 August 8 at 1606, WAYZ Hagerstown MD, modern country music. August 9 at 1606, ID "WAYZ Hagerstown". (Will-WV)
105.1 August 8 at 1606, WWRE Bridgewater VA, Rock/alternative/classic rock music. "WWRE Bridgewater Harrisonburg" at 1909. August 9 at 2309, ID "Rewind 105-1". (Will-WV)
105.3 August 8 at 1554, WFRB Frostburg MD, Modern country music, ID "Froggy". (Will-WV)
105.7 August 8 at 1909, WXMH Luray VA, Music by U2 "Sunday Bloody Sunday", "Sassy soul, good time rock and roll WXMH 105-7" at 1913. August 9 at 2050, ID "Right Radio 105-7". (Will-WV)
105.7 August 12 at 1445, W289BR Cumberland, "get your happy groove on now 105-7", 1520, ID "Happy 105-7". August 13 at 1501, "if someone tells you to turn it down you don't have to...happy 105-7" and into top 40 A/C music. (Will-WV)
106.1 August 8 at 1554, WRQE Cumberland MD, Rock music, ID "Rocky 106". Pink Floyd "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" at 1913. (Will-WV)
106.5 August 10 at 1430. W293AM Martinsburg WV, CBS News, local weather for Martinsburg area, ID "WRNR". (This is a repeater for WRNR 740 which was not heard.) August 11 at 1546, politics talk and interview with Bill O'Reilly (GAH! No!) who is shilling for his webcast now that he's been booted off Fox News. August 12 at 1450, "Talk radio WRNR" and into Kim Commando show. 1522, talk about the August 22 eclipse "it will overload the internet!" August 12 at 1900, news, riots in Charlottesville, car hit protesters, state of emergency declared, KKK mentioned, "Talk radio WRNR" at 1907 amidst a pile of commercials. (Will-WV)
106.9 August 8 at 1554, WWEG Myersville MD, Classic hits, ID "The Eagle". (Will-WV)
107.1 August 8 at 1554, WCBC Keyser WV, Classic hits, ID "WCBC 107-1 the classic hits station". August 13 at 1507, "across the Potomac valley classic hits" and into Boz Skaggs "Lido Shuffle". (Will-WV)
107.9 August 9 at 2050, W300BU Keyser WV, Country music, mixing with another unid. station. (Will-WV)
107.9 August 13 at 1508, W300CN Harrisonburg VA, News/talk. This is a 250 watt repeater for WKCY 1300. (Will-WV)
540 August 9 at 1549, WWCS Canonsburg PA, Sports talk. (Will-WV)
550 August 8 at 1609, WSVA Harrisonburg VA, News/talk. August 9 at 1641, livestock sale. August 11 at 1505, ID "News talk 550 and 92.1 WSVA". (Will-WV)
560 August 8 at 1609, WFRB Frostburg MD, Talk, Rush Limbag at 1627. ID "WFRB Frostburg". August 9 at 1500, Mike Gallagher show, ID, Fox News. (Will-WV)
560 August 12 at 1337, Unid, Self-described "independent baptist preacher" declaring his independence. He doesn't agree with what a lot of baptist preacher do, but he believes what the bible says. (Will-WV)
620 August 9 at 1500, WKHB Irwin PA, Health talk. August 9 at 1650, music by the Allman Brothers Band, ID "KHB", into Peter Gunn theme. (Will-WV)
630 August 9 at 2330. WMAL Washington DC, Mark Levin show. (Will-WV)
690 August 8 at 1609, WELD Fisher WV, Alex Jones. August 12 at 0155, classic hits, good signal on night power at 14 watts. This station plays mostly a canned "classic hits" mix but does do local programming in the weekday mornings. They also run Alex Jones mid-day on weekdays. (Will-WV)
740 August 13 at 1515. WRNR Martinsburg WV, Commercial for toilets, and gerber online dot com, ID "talk radio WRNR" and into home improvent talk. (Will-WV)
780 August 9 at 2330. WAVA Washington DC. My Pillow commercial, religious talk. August 11 at 1614, Jay Sekulow show, fair signal. August 13 at 1515, christian apologetics. (Will-WV)
790 August 8 at 1520, WSVG Mount Jackson VA, Country music. August 12 at 1340, old school bluegrass music, country/bluegrass cover version of the Who's "Squeeze Box". August 13 at 1520, instrumental version of "Ghost Riders In The Sky" with Les Paul-like guitar. ID "WSVG" at 1521. (Will-WV)
820 August 9 at 2330, WWFD Frederick MD, Washington Nationals ball game. August 12 at 1807, eclectic rock music, "The Gamut." (Will-WV)
840 August 9 at 2330, WKTR Earlysville VA, Preaching. (Will-WV)
890 August 12 at 2219, WKNV Fairlawn VA, spot for "Joy FM", play jesus music, be a volunteer! joy fm dot org. (Will-WV)
900 August 9 at 1500, WKDW Staunton VA, Country music. August 10 at 1944, ID "AM 900 WKDW", also IDed as "WKCY 107.9 FM" which is, in reality, W300CN, the FM repeater for WKCY 1300 Harrisonburg. August 12 at 1350, redneck pickup truck song, "Pick Up Man". (Will-WV)
920 August 9 at 1507, WMMN Fairmont WV, Dan Patrick Show. August 9 at 1700, sports talk. (Will-WV)
930 August 12 at 1735 WFMD Frederick MD, ID "930 WFMD", fair signal. (Will-WV)
970 August 12 at 1735, WKCI Waynesboro VA, Rush Limbag. (Will-WV)
980 August 10 at 1945, WTEM Washington DC, Sports alk, "ESPN 980". (Will-WV)
990 August 8 at 1690, WNTI Somerset PA. Rush Limbag. August 9 at 1508, Glenn Beck show, North Korea talk. August 9 at 1704, ID "The Laurel Highlands Sports Talk Network", web site forever johnstown dot com. August 10 at 1945, Pittsburgh Pirates ball game. (Will-WV)
990 August 9 at 2330. Unid, Old timey bluegrass music. (Will-WV)
1020 August 8 at 1609, KDKA Pittsburgh PA, Talk. August 9 at 1508, Pittsburgh news, massive fentanyl bust. August 10 at 1500, Beaver County news from Big Beaver Borough. August 12 at 1820, ID "News radio 10-20 KDKA". (Will-WV)
1030 August 10 at 1945, WWGB Indian Head MD, Spanish talk, frequent mentions of Washington DC, into mellow music. (Will-WV)
1050 August 9 at 1509, WMSG Oakland MD, music by Guns and Roses. August 10 at 1505, "Z 95.9", spot for a workshop in Oakland, "Classic hits". Appears to be simulcasting WKTZ 95.9. (Will-WV)
1070 August 9 at 2330, Unid, Classic hits, music by the Jackson 5ive. (Will-WV)
1080 August 8 at 1609, WWNL Pittsburgh PA, Preaching. August 9 at 1642, "Married Man Ministry" show, parent tips for sending your kids back to school, into a "Faith healing" show with Anita McCoy, "the prophetic voice of healing". August 9 at 1704, crying caller is "havin' an issue with my weight" and a lot of other "issues". August 10 at 1505, very animated female preacher, foaming and frothing. The audience is likewise very animated, yelling and amen-ing, must be pentecostals. August 10 at 1948, preacher criticizing other preachers who promote "rapture" in order to get money, says they're funded by the illuminati group, sorcerers, witchcraft worshipers! He says he has the story of the "true" rapture. Next, a long screed about pretribulation dispensationalism, finally IDing as Pastor Inman in Dayton Ohio. WWNL Pittsburgh ID at 1958. August 12 at 1818, horribly overmodulated church service with the preacher talking over the chorus, mentions "church of the lord Jesus Christ of the spostolic faith", the congregation says "ay-men" at everything he says. August 13 at 1525, host hawking goop to help you lose weight, "every scoop gives you 19 grams of protein", more commercials for similar crap followed. (Will-WV)
1090 August 11 at 1614. WBAL Baltimore. Derek Hunter show, good signal. August 13 at 1530, ID "WBAL TV 11 News weekday mornings at 4:30...WBAL news radio 10-90 and the WBAL app". (Will-WV)
1120 August 9 at 1509, WUST Washington DC, Spanish preaching. August 12 at 1740, bizarro asain "majarishi" music. August 13 at 1523, spanish preaching, very animated, screaming at the audience. (Will-WV)
1140 August 9 at 1509, WRVA Richmond VA, Glenn Beck. August 12 at 1322, "News radio 1440 WRVA", commercial for "Bob X" deer repellant for shrubbery, into talk show "In the Garden" which mentions their flagship station WSVA Harrisonburg; sure enough, WSVA 550 is parallel. August 12 at 2039. Jeff Katz, a weekday talk host, is live in the studio giving news and talking calls about the riots in Charlottesville. One dead and 19 injured at the "Unite the Right" rally when a car hit the crowd. He remained on, live for several hours. August 12 at 2222, Virginia governor and Charlottesville mayor, live, make statements condemning the Nazi violence in Charlottesville earlier today. (Will-WV)
1150 August 9 at 1706, WNLR Churchville VA, Preaching and bibling. August 10 at 1510, venomous condemnation of a "brutal butcher and abortionist...this is the face of abortion". August 10 at 2002, "New life radio WNLR" and into Jesus talk. August 12 at 1748, odd christian apologetics discussion talking about something called "the criterion of embarassment". August 13 at 1532, religious talk, mentions James Dobson, Focus on the Family. (Will-WV)
1150 August 9 at 2330, Unid, Classic hits, Ricky Nelson "Travelin' Man". (Will-WV)
1170 August 8 at 1609, WWVA Wheeling WV, Rush Limbag. August 9 at 1509, Glenn Beck. August 9 at 1706, ID "News radio 11-70 WWVA". (Will-WV)
1190 August 8 at 1609, WCRW Washington DC, Talk, Chinese government propaganda. (Will-WV)
1190 August 12 at 1325, WVRS Grafton VA, religious talk about artificial intelligence mixing with chinese government propaganda on WCRW co-channel. (Will-WV)
1200 August 9 at 1509, Unid, Glenn Beck. (Will-WV)
1210 August 9 at 1510, WANB Waynesburg PA, Redneck music, August 9 at 1707 "He's a flatliner". (Will-WV)
1220 August 9 at 2330, WFAX Falls Church VA, Preaching. (Will-WV)
1230 August 8 at 1609, WCMD Cumberland MD, Sports, ID "AM 1230 ESPN Radio". (Will-WV)
1240 August 13 at 1535, WTON Staunton VA, Sports talk, parallel 1230 with a slight delay. (Will-WV)
1250 August 13 at 1535, WRCW Warrenton VA, Financial talk, fair signal. (Will-WV)
1260 August 9 at 1510, WWRC Washington DC, Mike Gallagher show, commercial for BJU Press (Bob Jones University). August 11 at 1614, Dennis Prager show, fair signal. August 13 at 1534, politacal talk, Planned Parenthood. (Will-WV)
1270 August 8 at 1610, WCBC Cumberland MD, ID "WCBC Cumberland", religious commentary on Princess Di, "The Cal Thomas Commentary". August 9 at 2045, Sean Hannity. August 12 at 1350, ID "WCBC Hanover Cumberland". (Will-WV)
1280 August 12 at 1400, WHVR Hanover PA, ID "1280 and 98-3 Hanover classic hits". (Will-WV)
1290 August 10 at 2004, WDZY Richmond VA, "The blessed hope broadcast". August 12 at 1400, heavily-southern accented preacher. (Will-WV)
1300 August 9 at 1510, WCLG Morgantown WV, Commercials, mellow music, ID "Morgantown's classic hits 13 AM". (Will-WV)
1310 August 9 at 1510, WBFD Bedford PA, Mike Gallagher show. (Will-WV)
1320 August 9 at 1510, Unid, Glenn Beck show. (Will-WV)
1330 August 8 at 1610, WRAA Luray VA, Country music. "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" at 2020. August 9 at 1712, ID "Rascal 1330", "We play bodacious conuntry", music by Sugarland and Willie Nelson. August 13 at 1630, music by Hank Williams, ID "Rascal 1330" and spot for "Bright Radio 105-7 our sister station". (Will-WV)
1340 August 9 at 1510, WEPM Martinsburg WV, Rush Limbag. (Will-WV)
1350 August 9 at 1510, WOYK York PA, Sports talk. August 10 at 1521 ID "WOYK". (Will-WV)
1360 August 13 at 1540, WHBG Harrisonburg VA, Sports talk. (Will-WV)
1370 August 9 at 1528, WVMR Frost VA, West Virginia impaired driver spot, "drive sober or get pulled over". August 9 at 1712, music by the Eagles, "Peaceful Easy Feeling". August 10 at 1521, old school contry music. August 10 at 2004, NPR News into Bath County local politics, "back to the music" at 2011 with a song by Randy Skruggs and Joan Osborne, "Passin' Through", spot for First Baptist Church in Huntersville, and more music, Genesis "Follow You Folow Me". ID "Allegheny Mountain Radio". August 11 at 1531, old school country music by Johnny Cash and others, host says "if it's not 50 years old I won't play it", underwriter support spot for AMR at 1535. August 12 at 1752, rocking alt-country music, a song called "Up In Smoke" by Blackberry Smoke, and into more outlaw country music, good signal. One of two hosts IDs as "Scott the blue bearded guru". Station ID at 1800: "WVLS Monterey 89.7, WCHG Hot Springs 107.1, WNMP Marlinton 88.5, WDMT Markinton 106.3, WVMR Hillsboro 91.9, W278AL Durbin 103.5 and WVMR 1370 Frost allegheny mountain radio dot org" and into "Don't Look Back" by Boston. (Will-WV)
1380 August 9 at 1528, WCBG Waynesboro PA, Commercial for Savage Pharmacy in Waynesboro. (Will-WV)
1390 August 10 at 1537, WKLP Keyser WV, Sports talk, "Fox sports radio." (Will-WV)
1400 August 9 at 1529, Unid, Spanish talk. (Will-WV)
1400 August 13 at 1542, WINC Winchester VA, Mark Levin talk show. (Will-WV)
1410 August 8 at 1627, KQV Pittsburgh PA, Talk. August 9 at 1530, ID "KQV", local news, AP news. (Will-WV)
1420 August 8 at 2020, WKCW Warrenton VA, Classic hits, ID "WKCW" at 2021. August 9 at 1529, Todd Rundgren "Hellow It's Me", very good signal. August 10 at 2101, carribean accented preacher (who is apparently WKCW's only client) is on with usual odd religious talk, interview-style as usual. (Will-WV)
1430 August 9 at 1530, WVAM Altoona PA, Sports talk, ESPN Radio ID. (Will-WV)
1440 August 8 at 1610, WAJR Morgantown WV, Rush Limbag. August 9 at 1530, "Talk line on metro news", into political talk. August 9 at 1530, Mellow music, poor signal. August 10 at 1537, "Talk with Danny Jones", a syndicated West Virginia talk show. August 10 at 2059, ID "1440 WAJR". August 13 at 1542, preaching. (Will-WV)
1450 August 8 at 1610, Unid, Music. August 9 at 1529, country song sampling Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London". (Will-WV)
1450 August 11 at 1530, WREL Lexington VA, ID "Sports radio for Rockbridge County 1450 WREL". (Will-WV)
1460 August 12 at 1332, Unid, possibly WGMF Tunkhannock PA, classic hits with Seals and Croft's "Summer Breeze" mixing with a spanish language talk show on WKDV 1460 Manassas VA. (Will-WV)
1470 August 8 at 1610, WBTX Broadway VA, redneck religious music. August 9 at 1530, preaching. August 10 at 2059, ID "1470 AM 102.1 FM WBTX Broadway Timberville Harrisonburg". Parallel 102.1 is there but very weak at 2100. (Will-WV)
1480 August 10 at 1540, Unid, talk. (Will-WV)
1500 August 13 at 1545, WFED Washington DC, mentions wtop dot com, ID "federal news radio". (Will-WV)
1510 August 9 at 1530, WPGR Monroeville PA, Choral religious music. August 9 at 1715, preaching, "The followers of Christ are the followers of Christ." (wtf) August 10 at 1540, Cathy lick apologetics. (Will-WV)
1540 August 9 at 2350, Unid, Bollywood music. (Will-WV)
1550 August 10 at 1545, WZUM Braddock PA, old jazz music from the 1930s and 1940s, faded into the mud with a couple of other stations, back dominant at 1549 with more old jazz/pop instrumentals. At 1558, lounge-style instrumental version of "You must have been a beautiful baby". (Will-WV)
1550 August 11 at 1500, WKVA Vinton VA, ID "WWBA 1550 and 1390". August 12 at 1333, old time gospel music, very good signal. August 13 at 1550, religious talk, poor signal, mixing with sports talk (the latter is probably WMRE 1550 Charles Town WV). (Will-WV)
1560 August 8 at 1610, Unid, Talk, politics. August 10 at 1550, this was parallel with 1440. (Will-WV)
1570 August 9 at 1542, Unid, Classic hits, Phil Collins, Fleetwood Mac. (Will-WV)
1570 August 12 at 1333, WYTI Ricky Mount VA, Old country music, "Two cigarettes and an ashtray", mixing with a talk station. (Will-WV)
1580 August 8 at 2020, WJFK Washington DC, Military and veterans talk radio, very good signal. (Will-WV)
1590 August 8 at 1610, WHGT Maugansville MD, Religious music. August 9 at 1542, preaching. (Will-WV)
1600 August 9 at 1715, WKKX Wheeling WV, ID "AM 1600 WKKX and AM 1370 WVLY", (1370 not heard). (Will-WV)
1660 August 9 at 2345, WBCN Charlotte NC. Rock/southern rock/outlaw country music by Chris Stapleton, Molly Hatchet, Joe Cocker, etc. ID "94-7 Smoke". (Will-WV)
1690 August 9 at 1655, WPTX Lexington Park MD. Mellow music, "When You Wish Upon A Star". August 10 at 1556, talk, CBS News, ID "1690 AM WPTX...your favorite easy lustening music" and into "Happy Together" by The Turtles. (Will-WV)
3485 USB, August 12 at 1605. Aviation weather. Washington Dulles, missing. New York, missing. Bermuda, missing, Miami, missing, Atlanta, missing. Nassau, missing. Orlando, missing. (Repeats) (Will-WV)
3892 LSB August 8 at 1626. At least three local hams chatting. "Izzat yew Larry?" August 9 at 1614, Local hams discussing a high speed chase in Sand Hills. "Run over poor ol' guy's mail box..." "...the dawg treed him". (Will-WV)
5130 August 12-14, 2300-0400. No sign at all of WBCQ. When I get back into cell phone range the next day, they tell me that the transmitter had a hardware failure and the staff was all away until Sunday. Sunday evening, August 13-14, 5130 good signal all evening from 2300 sign-on. (Will-WV)
5850 August 14 at 1303, preacher says that Rev. 12:1 prophecies the alignment talking place during the eclipse. Good signal. (Will-WV)
6070 August 12 at 1618, CFRX Toronto. Excellent signal, commercials, talk show "Saturday with Ted on News talk ten ten". (Will-WV)
7200 LSB August 12 at 2155, The ham zoo is in full crazy mode with the usual "jammers" and "quirmers". One of the hams says "These guys used to hang out in the bathroom at the Krispy Creme and jack with the CBers and make 'em all lose their mind...as Fred Roll used to say..." (Will-WV)
7200 LSB, August 13 at 1603, Multiple stations, one complaining about "malicious interference" on the channel, Donnie N4TAT on the other end. (Will-WV)
7490 August 8 at 1949. WBCQ, Pirate Joe Extravagonzo music show, blues and jazz 78s, excellent signal. (Will-WV)
7490 August 9 at 2103, WBCQ, Glenn Hausers' World of Radio 1890, very good signal, into Tom Barna music at 2129 and cut to Goddess Irena 1 Music Show promptly at 2130. (Will-WV)
7490 August 9 at 0000, WBCQ, Ramsey's "Furthermore 29/54" opening with a song called "Liquour and Whores". (Will-WV)
7490 August 12 at 2126, WBCQ, Documentary on UK pirate radio from the 1960s with British top-40 music from the early sixties. Perfect signal and sound. (Will-WV)
7780 August 13 at 1319, Wavescan DX show on WRMI, discussion about DRM experiment on oceanbound ships with two-way digital comunications. Also on 9395 and 9455. 7780 very good, 9395 very good, 9455 fair. Romanian folk music at 1322, VOA News at 1330. (Will-WV)
9265 August 12 at 1540, WINB, Bible talk with high-pitched female voice. Scary solemn music at 1546, followed by talk, how to eat food and prepare dishes, how often to eat, etc., avoid milk and sugar in the stomach (it produces alcohol), avoid vinegar and oil (it rots the food), back to Jesus talk at 1551. Scary accordion shrill hymn at 1552, psalming at 1555, music "how great thou art" with slightly off-key violin. Write to Pittsburgh and send a bible to Africa. amazing discoveries dot org. A truly frightening broadcast. ID "WINB Red Lion PA" at 1600. (Will-WV)
9265 August 12 at 1914. WINB, Host says health problems are caused by soy formula. It's a conspiracy! "Soy formula is a poison!" More pseudo-medicine discussion continues, with "dr wong dot us" hawking various supplements and crap. He also says that the CIA is importing heroin into the US, among other conspiracies. (Will-WV)
9265 August 13 at 1554, WINB, Preacher says "stop sending your money into the religious swamp" and harshly criticizes Pat Robertson because of his "backslider theology". (Will-WV)
9350 August 9 at 2137, WWCR, Old time crime drama, "The Lineup" from July 8, 1952. (Will-WV)
9370 August 13 at 1417, WWRB, "EMP Pulse" paranoid conspiracy doomsday talk, ISIS Russian Syria Putin EMP Bomb, oh no! B.S. interrupts at 1423 to pitch his eclipsefest happing later this month. Very good signal. (Will-WV)
9395 August 8 at 2045. Oldies music, Sammy John "Chevy Van". Very good signal. (Will-WV)
9395 August 9 at 2315. The Brother Scare gang yelling, moaning and wailing, with random old B.S. bits mixed in. This pathetic programming went on for several minutes. Whenever this audio comes on I always wonder if B.S. has kicked the bucket, but eventually came back on promoting his eclipse gathering. (Will-WV)
9420 August 10 at 1805, CRI from Lingshi. Pleasant middle eastern music, fair to good signal. (Will-WV)
9445 August 10 at 1806, All India Radio, news in English, very good signal. August 10 at 2107, AIR News again, excellent signal. (Will-WV)
9445 August 12 at 2132. BBC News, sport news from Austrailia, very good signal. (Will-WV)
9475 August 9 at 1614. WTWW, Excellent signal, but the modulation is wrecked and the programming, assimed to be Pastor Peat Peters, is completely unintelligible. The audio was still boogered up at 1725. August 11 at 1606, finally got the modulation fixed, Pastor Peat Peters with an old tape, poor audio quality and low levels. August 12 at 2130, bibling, excellent signal but very low audio, almost impossible to decipher. (Will-WV)
9570, August 13 at 1335. KBS Korea with talk about people who have problems recognizing others' faces (face recognition). Squealy, low modulation, excellent signal.
9710 August 8 at 1940. World news and talk in English, Radio Japan ID at 1945 and into Hiroshima/Nagasaki segment, very good signal. (Will-WV)
9810 August 8 at 1946. Islamic Republic of Iran. News in English, Spain/Catalonia news, at 2001 started political screeds from Iranian government, "The US is the greatest terrorist nation", etc. very good signal. (Will-WV)
9840 August 9 at 1725. Brother Scare says he has a "make me an offer" for a 50KW FM stating blanketing Charleston, and asks listeners for ten million dollars. (Will-WV)
9915 August 8 at 2005, BBC News in English, very good signal. (Will-WV)
9955 August 12 at 1530, WRMI, end times preacher predicting the end of everything, "Yew are damned!" etc. (Will-WV)
10050 USB August 11 at 1551, Aviation weather, good signal. (Will-WV)
11580 August 8 at 2009, Very nice classic jazz music, very good signal. (Will-WV)
11710 August 13 at 1431, North Korea playing patriotic military music, fair signal. (Will-WV)
11930 August 12 at 1600, Radio Marti holding its own against Cuban jammer, very good signal. (Will-WV)
11635 August 9 at 2145, Cuban spy transmission with numbers and modem sounds. August 11 at 1806, perfect signal. (Will-WV)
15034 USB August 9 at 1730, Aviation weather, ID "This is Trenton military". No report from Victoria, Abbottsford or Zagreb. (Will-WV)
15140 August 11 at 1558, Radio Sultanate of Oman, Thumrayt, Extended talk in English with male and female about essentially nothing, ID "the nation's station", switched language at 1600 and into middle eastern music. Very good signal. (Will-WV)
15290 August 11 at 1611, Deutche Welle news in English, fair/poor and parallel 15315 with similar signal. (Will-WV)
15490 August 13 at 1557, BBC sport news, Manchester United versus West Ham, "BBC World Service" ID. Very good signal. (Will-WV)
15555 USB August 11 at 1815, WJHR, Music, into pre-tribulation rapture talk, fair signal, fadey. August 12 at 1603, trashing the Catholic church, talk about muslim 911 bombers paying prostitutes 300 dollars in Vegas, fair to good signal. (Will-WV)
15575 August 14 at 1256, "KBS World Radio coming from Seoul the Republic of Korea", interval signal and ID in Englsh and French, very good signal. (Will-WV)
15610 August 11 at 1819, EWTN Cathy lick programming, characteristic squealy signal, off-the-chart signal strength. (Will-WV)
15630 August 8 at 1925, VOA via Wooferton, talk in middle eastern language, pop music, news at 1927, excellent signal. (Will-WV)
15825 August 10 at 1920, WWCR with Little Tony children's show. Opening song was sung by a baby. (Will-WV)
17640 August 11 at 1821. Madagascar World Voice, health talk, "How can I make sure the wound heals properly?", excellent signal. (Will-WV)
17920 August 11 at 1604. Cuban spy transmission, fading in and out. (Will-WV)
6960 AM August 13 at 0010. Radio Illuminati, mellow progressive music, low-fi sound, full stop between songs, nice deep audio. 0057, acoustic version of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here". 0103, "the show's over" and into the national anthem. Excellent signal. (Will-WV)
6925 AM August 13 at 0036. Unid. 1930s jazz music snippet, fair signal, off at 0039. (Will-WV)
6935 USB August 13 at 0048. Jingle "can anyone hear me" repeated several times, 0049, "Wolverine Radio" ID and into old 30s jazz music. The theme tonight was songs with "last" in the title, e.g., Traveling Wilburys "Last Night", Tom Petty "Last Dance With Mary Jane", Rolling Stones "Last Time", and many more. (Will-WV)
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