Re: [IRCA] The 1620 WJDI Story

[David Faulkner <drdsfaulkner@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All:

I never heard WJDI, but I wonder if anyone recalls a pirate run by my HS speech teacher, Bob Trapp, in Grand Rapids, MI, in the late 50s. I think he used the calls WMAX, later used by other GR stations. Claimed he was running 100 watts on 1060 & was the only GR station playing rr at the time. He got Port Huron Northern HS its FM in 1972. But the year before that he got some kid in the electronics shop to build him a carrier current transmitter and was broadcasting around the school on 1000 and again using the calls WMAX. All that was well and good, but his transmitter had a nasty spur on 1015 that covered the whole town. Mr. Trapp also moonlighted at WHLS for a time. He died of cancer in about 1975.

73
David Faulkner


PS. In the "It's a small world" department, my roommate at MSU took piano lessons from Mr. Trapp's mother and thinks he remembers the pirate station.




On Monday, February 3, 2014 9:50 PM, Tim Tromp <kilokat7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 
I connected with Dave Schneider a year ago after posting some old WJDI 
audio clips on my blog.  After exchanging some emails, we thought it 
would be nice to properly document the history of WJDI with facts 
provided by the person behind the operation, Dave Schneider.  This story 
documents Dave's interest in DXing at an early age and how this interest 
evolved into the first WJDI in 1970 using only 7-1/2 watts.  WJDI would 
later be recognized as running one of the most powerful hand-crafted 
pirate transmitters on the AM dial on 1620 kHz during the late 1980s 
through the mid 1990s.  If anyone has any memories of hearing WJDI then 
I would encourage you to leave a comment at the bottom of the page this 
story appears on so Dave will see it:

http://midx.wordpress.com/wjdi/

73,
Tim Tromp
West Michigan

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