Something to lighten the mood

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WOW was a real station from before that cartoon until the 1980s. At first WOW was teken by a steamship, but it retired in 1926. Today it would be on the K side of the Mississippi but the line was more west when they started and they were allowed to keep the W for some decades.
https://archives.nebraska.edu/agents/corporate_entities/207https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXSP#History
WHAM is still on the air and strong:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHAM_(AM)#History
The current KICK started in 1950. There may have been an earlier licensee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KICK_(AM)#History
Since 2014 we have had KRAP:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRAP(more Watts in my yard-light than their nightime signal.) (Their Wikipedia page is krap too. Some bogus logos and links?)
 
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I used to listen to some of those radios (or their heirs) up to the 80´s from Argentina, at night, using a 30 meter long wire oriented E-W (so its lobe pointed N-S) into a WW2 Lancaster bomber radio.

Mind you, regular broadcast band AM, not shortwave !!!! .... which was nothing short of a miracle.

But I was in a rural town 100 miles West from Buenos Aires, so I was in a relatively interference free area, and my antenna deaf side pointed towards Buenos Aires so just by chance I avoided a lot of local pollution.

After the 80´s it became impossible to pick useful signal from background noise.

Oh well.

Still have an Eddystone marine Radio but I have not turned it on for decades.