I’ve mentioned this radio station before on here, out of a small town East of where I live where I used to volunteer and spin records once a week. www. wobofm.com I know there is satellite radio available to get some of the old country music but there are a few DJs at this station that play some very rare music that isn’t mainstream any more. There seemed to be an interest in the music from some of the older folks and there is a show starting at 8 am today EST that is very good from 8-12 noon. Friday’s show from 8-12 is a good one as well. I mention it for the folks like me who don’t have satellite. Give a listen if you get a chance. Bart
Reminds me of years ago. Before we got the local radio stations here in the UK after the BBC closed down for the night I used to tune in East Coast US stations on Medium Wave. I remember most nights WOWO in Ft. Waine Indiana, was about the strongest, but most nights I could get to listen all down the coast. A good pointer for propagation was CJYQ on 930 AM in St. John’s Newfoundland. Now with the Internet it’s so easy now to pick up stations from all over the globe. Try This Site There’s about all you need on there.
Dang, Snuffhead…you’re always up on the latest! Appreciate the link, there. I’ve got an old Stromberg-Carlson tube floor model and a Zenith Transoceanic that still works and on a clear Winter night I can pick up some far away stations. But, yes, sadly in some ways, the internet has changed some of the adventure.
@ Bart: his other name is Radio Head. 
@ Bart, you have a nice radio @ Xander LOL! This is a Marconi CR100 Navy Rceiver I used, it covered all Short Wave, Medium Wave and down to Long, Long Wave way past the Broadcast Band and into the Marine Beacons. 
Nice, Snuffhead a real classic one! My Mom building an old Heath-Kit radio when I was young got me interested in the radio. I had a Crosley Shelvador refrigerator until 2 years ago,haha. Well, I guess I’m interested in anything old and obsolete
Is this the one? 
I’m not familiar, but just found that the modern ones are available here in the UK. If you go back to my first post on this, your thread you will see I edited and put a direct link to the audio stream of Radio CJYQ St’ John’s. NFL.
Yes, mine was pretty similar to that. Amazingly, Powell Crosley held a patent for years on offering a refrigerator with shelves on the door!. No one else was able to offer that during those years. When you say modern, you mean folks are buying newly rebuilt iceboxes over there? Wish I had kept mine now for a serious snuff storage/bar or for flue-curing my tobacco leaves.
No, my mistake. I googled Crosley Shelvador refrigerator and came up with a UK site that then took my to modern fridges, I never looked properly.
I love radio. Facinated by it really. I’m less interested in the music than I am the workings of a radio station and the job of the host. Too bad it doesn’t pay well…maybe if I win the lottery. There’s so much online for this type of stuff. The links are cool. I took the satellite radio plunge five years ago or so I’ve been spoiled and flat out addicted to it. The saving grace it that I haven’t bought a CD in almost as long. (CD…pretty soon I’ll be dating myself with that) Mostly talk for me and there’s a slew of it on XM.
I was once long ago part of a very early morning commercial made for and played on for WOWO in Ft Wayne IN (a commercial for the Children’s home I was living in at he time) and (very loosely related) I am and have been a licensed ham/amateur radio operator since 1998 (tho I won’t give my callsign online due to the “QRZed” as its called and FCC’s public online registry of ham licensees with our names and street addresses). I used to be a bit obsessed with radio in its various forms but that ‘special interest’ has died down quite a bit. Since this original topic was actually it seems more about old time music rather than radio (and I have no idea which flavor of ‘old time music’ was being played I missed hearing it) but here’s an example I often think of whenever I think just of the general phrase “old time music” Roy Acuff - Precious Jewel
Thanks for the link whistlrr, could well have qso’d on 10m (28MHz), at sometime. Thanks for the link, both my cats run out and I was in tears, LOL!
@Snuff Head – np! its just one of many of the types of things I was raised on (oh and I have owned a few Heath kits, you know they used to come out of Benton Harbor Michigan) Here’s yet another Roy Acuff, one most people will know, with ‘visuals’ of him even (he was, as you may know, one of those that when he started out the more refined or whatnot controlling factions in the lot determing who should hear what, listening to him and deciding whether to let him on stage in places or whether to give him radio airplay at first etc gave him a hard time said stuff like “that boy’s prolly not even playing with all six strings, and likely got even less teeth his head”) Roy Acuff & His Smokey Mountain Boys <<– Wabash Cannonball
I’ve got some old recordings he did for Royal Crown Cola. They are a bunch of short commercials, songs, humor. Love Bashful Brother Oswald as well with Roy. Simple life, simple humor, simple pleasures back then ,I suppose. @snuffhead Hahaha, funny, my wife thinks all my old timey music is depressing and leaves me alone. Lucky I enjoy many different types of music.
if she thinks the Wabash Cannonball is ‘depressing’ she might wan to see a doctor about it (seriously, how can anyone think that song is depressing??) Its not so old, but here’s one, just for the wife: Statler Bros – Flowers on the Wall
Many thanks for the links, I must say I like country music, but I too find some depressing at times.
@bart: Hear, hear! I love old stuff, technology in general. If you dig Pawel Crosley’s wonderful weirdness, check out the Crosley IcyBall refrigerator. There are still a few folks out there who collect 'em or even make new icyballs out of plumbing parts. Gotta be careful playing with anhydrous ammonia, but what’s a little pulmonary edema between friends?
I was waiting for somebody else to post this, but since it seems nobody is going to, I will…Tex Williams - Smoke Smoke That Cigarette