(Was that the 1060 station, ai4i ?)
* Somewhat * associated might be the time I was re-doing my house up here.
By the time I got done re-arranging the house there wasn't a single inside wall panel remaining, and you know how it is; once you start a repetitive task that you aren't that familiar with, you do work up a fluency of sorts and don't wanna compromise the momentum.
So I turned on the GE SR II and tuned it to 99.1, for some jazz around the fitful lunchtime.
99.1 out of Pottsville, about 7 miles south of here, is a translator for WRTI 90.1 in Philly. Good signal. At the time WRTI was all-jazz 24/7. The midday host was a gal DJ.
I'm tinkering and puttering and eating and drilling and sometimes cursing, when the gal comes out of some Maynard Ferguson song. Life is full.
Then she says something about 'Jazz 99'. I go, 'Wait a second. You're not supposed to be saying Jazz 99. WRTI's frequency is 90.1! Yeah, okay -- I'm LISTENING to 99.1, but your frequency is 90.1, Missy.'
She then goes into some lunchtime request promo, and gives out two phone numbers. One was for Dade County and one was for Broward County.
Then it hit me. Duh, Green.
A check with information turned up a Jazz 99.1 in Miami FL and I called them. The gal DJ answered the phone and probably thought I was just some honky nut from Pennsylvania. She wasn't impressed. But I was getting my wonderful lunchtime jazz -- not from Pottsville but from a thousand miles farther on. And I'm sure that the E-Skip would've brought in Jazz 99 from Miami on a radio of even lesser quality. I didn't scour the dial for more DX catches. I went back to work on the house.
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There are many stations who obliterate their actual COL under a blizzard of other, more prestigious communities. The one that comes first to mind through any of my actual sustained listening listen-at-work was the Modern Rock WJSE, 102.7, Petersburg NJ. Who the devil ever heard of 'Petersburg' New Jersey' ? And I guess the owners weren't all that thrilled with the local tissue paper stuck to their shoes, either.
Their TOH ID went a quick 'WJSE (petersb ...) ATLANTIC CITY's Howard Stern and modern rock digital 102 - 7 !!!'