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Re: Death of Radio or Not?
When I was a kid growing up fairly near the border we had fun listening to evangelists on XERB, which on a good night came in in Oregon. Between evangelists it was race results. One evangelist played relaxing relaxing music for the first 15 minutes of his show, the next 15 he'd tell you in a deep, calm relaxing voice to sit down in a comfortable chair and close your eyes and go deeply, deeply asleep and to listen carefully and then to go to the desk and take out the check book and look at the amount in the account and then write that on your check--don't forget to sign it!!--and then mail it to box whatever. There was an endless parade of people miraculously healed from every disease known to man. Rev. AA Allen of Miracle Valley, Az, had a huge following, somehow his free copy of Miracle Magazine always had the same feature article--"I brought my tumor to church in a jar!"--(or, how to get a personal pew all to yourself!) He died of chirosis. They were wonderfully entertaining. Shameless crooks. Some hit it big, some went down. We enjoyed the gospel music from a tabernacle in downtown LA. In later years XERB became Wolfman Jack's west coast station, a fictionalized version of it appeared in "American Graffiti". Its XEPRS now, a good sports station, I have received it on a portable radio while camping on eastern Maui. Mainland DX in Hawai'i might be an interesting topic. In fact, I would be interested to hear from anyone about mainland stations that make it there. I think the farthest I ever received in Hawai'i was WBAP in Ft. Worth. I have never received any Hawaiian stations on the mainland though I understand that KPUA can sometimes be heard in Santa Barbara.
When I was a kid growing up fairly near the border we had fun listening to evangelists on XERB, which on a good night came in in Oregon. Between evangelists it was race results. One evangelist played relaxing relaxing music for the first 15 minutes of his show, the next 15 he'd tell you in a deep, calm relaxing voice to sit down in a comfortable chair and close your eyes and go deeply, deeply asleep and to listen carefully and then to go to the desk and take out the check book and look at the amount in the account and then write that on your check--don't forget to sign it!!--and then mail it to box whatever. There was an endless parade of people miraculously healed from every disease known to man. Rev. AA Allen of Miracle Valley, Az, had a huge following, somehow his free copy of Miracle Magazine always had the same feature article--"I brought my tumor to church in a jar!"--(or, how to get a personal pew all to yourself!) He died of chirosis. They were wonderfully entertaining. Shameless crooks. Some hit it big, some went down. We enjoyed the gospel music from a tabernacle in downtown LA. In later years XERB became Wolfman Jack's west coast station, a fictionalized version of it appeared in "American Graffiti". Its XEPRS now, a good sports station, I have received it on a portable radio while camping on eastern Maui. Mainland DX in Hawai'i might be an interesting topic. In fact, I would be interested to hear from anyone about mainland stations that make it there. I think the farthest I ever received in Hawai'i was WBAP in Ft. Worth. I have never received any Hawaiian stations on the mainland though I understand that KPUA can sometimes be heard in Santa Barbara.
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