[Swprograms] Strangeness at WBCQ Friday Night

["William Martin" <wgmartin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ran across some really odd transmissions from WBCQ Friday night
(UT Saturday 4/8/06):

At 0400 UT on 5110 kHz, there was a mix of program audio that
combined Good Friends Radio and This Week in Amateur Radio.
This continued on and on, eventually settling on just This
Week in Amateur Radio, which then repeated their hour-long
program all night over and over until it finally was cut off and
terminated when the transmitter was taken off-air at 5 AM
(my time) -- 1000 UT. I had just left the radio on and had
woken up now and then during this marathon and heard TWiAR
until I fell back asleep each time. I just happened to be awake
to hear the 1000 UT turn-off. This was the timeframe when WBCQ
was supposed to be airing GFR all that time, but something caused
the TWiAR audio to be fed into the transmitter instead.

At the same time, on 7415 kHz at 0400 UT (which surprisingly
happened to be clearly receivable that night here in St. Louis, MO,
at that time -- it's often faded into the noise by then): instead
of "Amos & Andy", a TimTron program was begun. That was cut off
and A&A began after a few minutes. Then, when "Herald of Truth"
was to be started at 0415 UT, it *did* begin, but the "Amos & Andy"
audio continued too, mixed with the HoT audio. After HoT ended,
yet another A&A program began at 0432 UT! That was finally killed
at 0434 UT, followed by an incomplete WBCQ ID and yet another
A&A program started anew! That was *finally* killed at 0437 for real
this time, and Brother Stair came on as scheduled for an 0430 start.

I think Allan had said earlier that evening on Allan Weiner WorldWide
that he was there alone; I have a vision of him running around
frantically trying to turn off CD players and patch signals while maybe
half asleep or otherwise exhausted. :-)

Other WBCQ news as announced by Allan on that AWWW program,
and this updates the posted April 2 WBCQ schedule:

Lost Discs Radio, now on Friday evenings (UT Saturdays at 0200-0300
on both 7415 and 5110) will be switched with Christian Media Network
now on Saturday evenings (UT Sunday 0200-0300 on 7415), effective
April 15 '06. This does make sense, putting Lost Discs in with the
other Saturday-night entertainment lineup, where CMN didn't really
fit, and adding another hour of CMN to follow the existing CMN
time on Fridays. I would think it would increase both programs'
audience.

Allan had a long interview with James Lloyd of CMN on that AWWW
program with some interesting discussion. He seems to follow
James' theology, and one must admit that CMN is better listening
than Bro. Stair, for example, and other preachers of that ilk.

73, Will


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