Welcome, Old Time Radio fans!  My name is Dave Hunt, and I'm an OTR fan too.  I have a low-power radio station which broadcasts on AM 1650 using an SStran AMT3000 transmitter which is located in my home in Frankfort, Kentucky.  Its range covers roughly the subdivision where I live, but it can sometimes reach a bit farther depending on atmospheric conditions and time of day.  My broadcast "day" is usually from around 11:00 at night until 9:00 or so the following morning, most every night of the week.  (The OTR start time could be later if it is baseball season and there is a late Reds game on, as for example during a West Coast road trip.)  I don't generally broadcast during the daytime hours because my computer is usually busy with some other task.

My station is an affiliate of the Antioch Broadcasting Network.  ABN's website (radio.macinmind.com) is my usual source for streaming audio.  If that stream is unavailable, or becomes unavailable during the night and I am aware of it, I will usually switch over to a stream from one of the other OTR sites listed in the sidebar.  I may also use another site if I don't care for what Antioch has on, or if I've heard it recently.  Occasionally, when I lose my Internet connection altogether, I may play selections from my own OTR collection, either random selections from my favorite comedy or detective shows, or an entire serial with all episodes played back-to-back.

Under ABN's current schedule, I am usually awake during the "Detective Shows" block and the "Police Stories" block.  Some of my favorite radio detectives are Richard Diamond, Philip Marlowe, and Michael Shayne.  My favorites from the "Police Stories" block are "Dragnet" and "Broadway is My Beat".  I am usually asleep by the time that block is over, but I generally wake up in time to hear some of the "Comedy" block (of which my favorites are "The Jack Benny Program" and "Fibber McGee & Molly") and all of the "Family Comedy" block (of which my favorites are "The Great Gildersleeve" and "Our Miss Brooks").  I am particularly fond of Gildersleeve, and a couple of episodes of Gildy always seems to get my day off to a cheery start.

I'll be posting more information and opinion here from time to time, so check back often and feel free to leave comments.  I'll leave you with a couple of pictures this time.  The first is my AMT3000 transmitter, which sits on the floor to the right of my computer desk, and the second is my own authentic old time radio, which I rescued from the basement of my wife's parents' house several years ago, and which now sits to the left of my computer desk.  It has four bands:  (a) the regular AM broadcast band (b) a police band (c) a foreign (shortwave) band, and (d) a "foreign spread band" which appears to be for finer tuning of the more widely used portion of the foreign band.  It has six car-radio style buttons, labelled WKRC, WLAP, WLW, WHAS, WSM, and WCKY, all fairly nearby stations from the Louisville, Cincinnati, and Nashville areas.  If anyone knows the make and model of this radio, please post it in a comment.  Thanks!