Boston-Radio-Interest Digest, Vol 23, Issue 6

[Supersport - Scratchy 45s & Beyond]

Back during the last few years of 1130 WNEW, I would listen to them in East 
Boston bombing in at night in Stereo.  They had really nice stereo on that 
AM station.

On January 12, 2019 12:00:00 PM 
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>   1. Re: 2 pleasant surprises this week (Mark Connelly)
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> Re: 2 pleasant surprises this week
> From: Mark Connelly markwa1ion@aol.com
> Date: Jan 11, 11:58 PM
> To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
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> <<
>> > When AM1130 in NYC was WNEW....it was pleasant listening in Boston with a
>> > very reliable signal after dark!
>>>
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> Day and night for 1130 NY here on Cape Cod.
>
> I remember it as WNEW too.  In the '80s I would blast it out in the car at 
> night on rides from metro-Boston to the Cape.
>
> One summer evening I was tooling down Route 3 through the Plymouth 
> pinelands under a hazy moon and had Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall version 
> of "Sing Sing Sing" rocking the speakers like it was in the next room 
> instead of coming from a transmitter 200 miles away.  I had the windows 
> down and Gene Krupa's drumming was loud enough to blow the birds out of the 
> trees.
> When I went to Ireland in 1977, I had no trouble hearing WNEW playing 
> then-current Bond movie song "Nobody Does It Better" by Carly Simon.  Maybe 
> not at next-room volume but still acceptable entertainment quality on my 
> Realistic TRF portable radio with no external antennas or gadgetry.  One of 
> the 4 or 5 best AM signals from the States.
>
> Those sticks in the NJ salt marshes sure throw a signal far and wide.  Too 
> bad it's just dull talk now instead of jazz, swing, adult standards etc.
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> Mark Connelly
> South Yarmouth, MA
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