right now. Let WGBB know what's going on in your (Great) neck of the woods.

Anything people need to know about? Please post it here!

if anyone had a tale to tell of an angelic encounter, or other miracle in their life.

 

Then I thought, with all the paranormal stuff that I hear happens on Long Island,

maybe someone has had a run in with a ghost, a UFO, or even  !

 

I'd love to read about anyones' experiences along these lines.

I know I've had a few, and maybe I'll post about some of them later.

 

Have you had an angelic experience, a blessing, or paranormal encounter? Do tell!

 

The New York Times didn't make the cut?

What are the topics of conversation? What are the shows about?

 

Can we hear from someone who knows?

(Thanks)

In a 1927 listing of US radio stations http://www.oldradio.com/archives/dial/1927.txt 

WGBB is listed at 1220 KHZ.

By 1931 http://jeff560.tripod.com/1931am.html WGBB had shifted to 1210 KHZ.

At that time, a number of radio stations for a town or city often shared

one frequency,

but operated at different times, so, for instance, one station would

operate

from 6 AM 'til 2 PM, and then another one would use the frequency from 2PM 'til 8PM.

Often radio stations wouldn't stay on overnight.

Many stations that were originally assigned to 1210 KHz later were reassigned 

to the 1240 spot on the dial. I see in your WGBB 1980 Reunion link, http://www.nynews.org/wgbb/index.htm 

 there is a short history of the station which claims it also operated at 1230 for a while.

 

Here is the wikipedia entry for WGBB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGBB

 

In an article about the 80th anniversary of WGBB,

 

Harry Carman is described as follows:

 

" its original owner Harry Carman was, well, thrifty and didn't like to spend a lot of money on anything.

the mid-1600s, were ham radio operators who launched WGBB from the garage

 at their family home in Freeport.

with other area stations. It finally went full-time in 1943, though it still had only 100

 watts of power because, among other things, Carman didn't want to pay for a

 major transmitter upgrade."

----------------- Some of you may know a fellow named Al Case who had much to do with WGBB in the 1970s.

He has posted some interesting pictures of his days at WGBB here:

 

 

 

 

as well as his biography:

I discovered it this weekend while I was with my brother's family in Ocean Grove NJ this weekend. We were there for their annual chocolate festival, which was, frankly, a bit meager this year, because of the snow storms they've been having. Everything was covered with snow!

Anyhow, I'm from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and my most recent job was refurbishing old hotel and hospital phone systems, but the place where I worked is temporarily (we hope ) shut down due to the slow economy.

 

I have to say the programming I heard on WGBB was refreshing and unique. So much better than the corporate radio you usually hear cluttering up the AM dial, and the station does exceptionally well in terms of its coverage. Usually 1240 is considered a "local" frequency, and typically the 'listening area' covered by a station at that frequency would be about 18 miles in any direction, but thanks to the way water holds onto an AM signal, the waters in the Atlantic Ocean and Long Island sound give WGBB a coverage area that many stations can only dream of.

Of course, it's available on the web, but still it's nice to have a signal in the air, and when you can get 20,000 watts worth of coverage for a thousand watts, that's quite impressive!

 

WGBB coverage map:

 http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WGBB&service=AM&status=L&hours=D

 

Also there's nothing like sincere programming done by real, dedicated people, and I congratulate the station for its

commitment to such programs! It was a joy to hear the STMS soul music show, and the preceding show with union people talking about their efforts to help the rescue workers from 911.

The shows on Sunday morning fairly rocked, and were interesting as well, which is quite an accomplishment when you're talking

about religious programming!

 

My best wishes to one and all at the station, and all you who listen, and who visit this place as well!

Long may you run!