I was cruising the MW band early this morning and came across something new and interesting on 1710.\u00a0 Instead of the usual Boston pirate, I was hearing a strong signal from a station playing oldies music – Beach Boys, The Temptations, The Big Bopper, etc.\u00a0 I listened for over an hour to this station and heard frequent announcements between songs.\u00a0 This station was calling itself “The Big Q” (or maybe Big Cube?) and had slick liners between songs – all very professional sounding.\u00a0 Was this a pirate broadcaster?\u00a0 The most unusual part of the broadcast were several slightly different ads for the classic General Electric Superradio.\u00a0 The announcer was encouraging\u00a0 listeners to go to eBay.com to search out & purchase a GE Superradio to benefit their listening hobby – “no expensive receivers or long wires needed – just get a Superradio! and get it on eBay!”\u00a0 Very bizarre!\u00a0 Below are selected clips that I cropped from the hour+ recording I made this morning.\u00a0 Please comment if you have heard this station before or know anything about it – I’m mystified!\u00a0 First heard this morning (Nov.6th, 2010) at 0940 UTC & off abruptly at 1116 UTC, solid signal throughout broadcast:<\/p>\n
1710 UNID “You’re listening to the the midnight man on the Big Q” –
\noldies stations here playing
\n1960s\/1970s stuff with announcements between songs like “You’re
\nlistening to the Big Q”.\u00a0 Very good signal right now at S7
\nway over Radio Soleil with slight warble to audio.\u00a0 Songs
\nheard include Beach Boys “Help me Rhonda”, Temptations “My
\nGirl” sung by gravely voiced guy, “Chantilly Lace”, etc.
\nAd for “GE Super Radio on eBay” and other weirdness.\u00a0 The
\nannouncer mentioned something about the movie “pirate radio”
\nand said it had nothing on his operation.\u00a0 Pirate? Part 15?
\nDon’t know!<\/p>\n
1710 khz – The Big Q – Clip 1<\/a> I was cruising the MW band early this morning and came across something new and interesting on 1710.\u00a0 Instead of the usual Boston pirate, I was hearing a strong signal from a station playing oldies music – Beach Boys, The Temptations, The Big Bopper, etc.\u00a0 I listened for over an hour to this station and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,9],"tags":[10,32,40,47],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1710-khz","category-logs","category-pirate","category-radio","tag-10","tag-oldies","tag-pirate-2","tag-the-big-q"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1710 khz – The Big Q – Clip 2<\/a>
\n1710 khz – The Big Q – Clip 3<\/a>
\n1710 khz – The Big Q – Clip 4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"