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P.K. on Classic Soul 101.5 WSOL Jacksonville | September 18, 1986

Steve West — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:30:52 +0000

From 1986, here’s a great sounding Classic R&B station voiced by the legendary Issac Hayes. Sounding almost like a forerunner to the Smooth Jazz format in it’s approach, WSOL is a mostly-ballads R&B Gold format, with a few then-currents thrown in (listen for Prince).

The DJ goes simply by the name PK. Runs 11 minutes, scoped.

P.K. on Classic Soul 101.5 WSOL Jacksonville | September 18, 1986 is a post from: Airchexx.com

"Catfish" Tom Kelly, FM 99 WQIK Jacksonville | September 18, 1996

Steve West — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:20:20 +0000

Here’s an almost perfect scope of The Hit Kicker during a late-Summer weekend. The year is 1996, although on the tape provided it says 1994… but your webmaster was doing Country radio in 1996 and played the same currents at KOUL Corpus Christi, so I know better.

One thing I always really liked about WQIK was the jingles. I can’t remember the package I heard but it had to have been some kind of retro CHR package. In 1992 I was in Jacksonville while stationed on the USS Samuel Eliot Morison and listened to WQIK’s AM signal (at that time it was an AM/FM simulcast) using an old R-390 receiver. Now, an R-390 has a number of bandwidth settings, the top of which is super-wideband, so listening to this station, on its AM signal, with reverb in the audio chain on that receiver was like listening to vintage WABC on a Summer night in New York. WQIK sounded, to me, like an old 70s Top 40 station set to Country music, although by the time of this aircheck, its more typical of Country radio.

Catfish Tom Kelly is featured on this 14 and a half minute scope, on a Saturday show where he promotes an upcoming fair and chats with callers with their requests.

“Catfish” Tom Kelly, FM 99 WQIK Jacksonville | September 18, 1996 is a post from: Airchexx.com

Composite: WAPE Jacksonville | 1971 (15:41) Scoped

Steve West — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 05:01:10 +0000

Here’s our very first look at a station which not only was a memorable Top 40 station, but a station with one of the biggest signals on the East Coast.

The mighty 690, situated along the Atlantc coast in Jacksonville, Florida, had a ground wave so big it was heard from North Carolina to South Florida during the day. Coupled with the signal, the talents of Larry Dixon, The Greaseman and even Jay Thomas graced the 50,000 watt blowtorch’s carrier with some of the very best entertainment of that era.

So while we’re talking about talent, listen to this 15 minute scope of WAPE, Larry Dixon, Jay Thomas and others.

Click HERE to Listen!

Composite: WAPE Jacksonville | 1971 (15:41) Scoped is a post from: Airchexx.com