WBZ's old Sunday night "Silent Period" (RE: WBZ & WRKO - No Audio)

["Peter Q. George" <radiojunkie3@yahoo.com>]

    Right you are, Ron.  Until the late 1970's or
early 1980's, every Sunday night from midnight to 6:00
AM (Monday), WBZ/1030 would leave the air right after
the midnight news for a period of technical
maintenance.  Almost every week, (a few minutes after
the station shut down for the night) a somewhat weaker
carrier would pop up and you would next hear ......
"This is WBZ Boston, conducting equipment tests using
the auxilliary transmitter.".
    It would be the 10,000 watt backup at Soldiers
Field Road.  Many times you would hear music from
WBZ-FM (106.7).  While living in skip-land in the late
1970's, it was a joy to hear Dave Maynard's famous
voicer fed on WBZ-AM... "It's the most music anywhere!
Rockin' Stereo 106.7, WBZ-FM Boston " (Tah-DAH!!!!!).
    Hearing The Stones' "Beast Of Burden" on WBZ/1030
in 1979 was quite different during the overnight
experimental period.  Too bad, virtually every station
does not have a Sunday night "Silent Period" anymore.
I used to go to bed early every Sunday night to get
enough sleep to DX the overnight.  Man was that
livin'!  Oh,well!

-Pete (K1XRB)


> Back then the backup program feed was WBZ-FM 106.7.


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Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts
                           "Scanning the bands since 1967"
radiojunkie1@yahoo.com
radiojunkie3@yahoo.com
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