This aircheck is intended for education and historical purposes and not to upset victims of the Hurricane Katrina. It’s our hope that future visitors to our site will listen to this and understand that with respect to radio, this is exactly what the FCC means by radio broadcasting in the public interest.

While we wait for other audio samples to arrive from various sources, it’s important to note that this aircheck, recorded via DX from Memphis, TN between 3 and 5 AM on the morning the hurricane struck the Gulf Coast, may be one of only a handful available. To my knowledge, there were actually few stations left on the air by the time the storm made landfall – those include Entercom’s 870 WWL and WTIX 690 (which was broadcasting using it’s normal daytime pattern all night until the station was destroyed sometime during the storm).

This aircheck will be difficult to listen to. There’s a tremendous amount of white noise on the signal. I set this to record before I went to work, and when I set up the delayed timer to start at 3am, MPB was coming in very well. By 3am, atmospheric conditions had reduced the signal to barely audible. So, this is a hard to hear catch that we did – but sometimes for historical purposes this is important to preserve… so here we have it for you.