WBAP-AM 820 #ftworthtx/#dallas,tx celebrates it's 100th birthday.

The station shared signal with WFAA-AM 570 for many years. The signal change was marked by ringing a cowbell.

One of the first original stations west of the Mississippi it was preceeded by WRR-AM 1310 Dallas making WBAP the second radio station to sign on in Texas.

With it's nighttime 50,000 watt signal WBAP can be heard across 32 states.

Later WFAA (now KLIF-AM) would reunite with the purchase of both stations by Cumulus.

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RESPECT Kriston Fincher

 

Kriston Fincher

Gone but not forgotten. Kris had over 25 years experience in flight simulation and avionics design, and 15 years in talk radio. Kris worked at Lockheed Martin for over 19 years as a designer for F-16's. As much as we would love to go into detail of this, a lot of Kris's work was classified. He was the board op for Cyber-Line for many years. Later in life Software / Firmware Specialist at Unilectric Ltd in Round Rock, Texas where he lived and died in March 2020 and not from Covid though Covid interfered greatly with his funeral services. You can find out some more interesting facts about Kris here: Quora

RESPECT The Ole Geezer

 

The Ole Geezer AKA Michael Szigmound Suhar

The Ole Geezer AKA Michael Szigmound Suhar passed away August 3, 2018 after a short battle with Cancer. He is survived by his wife Eve (Eva) married to for 43 years, two loving sons, his late son Scott, and his grandchildren one who is named after him.

He was in the Navy. He loved being a member of the American military serving proudly the country he loved, moving around and finally settling in Texas. Where he then proceeded to work for Lockheed and was involved in the electronic field since 1959 and designed & built real-time flight simulators for 27 years before retiring in 2008.

His interest in radio was fueled by listening to communications on Halicrafters, Heathkit, and Collins receivers in the 50's and more recently on a Uniden BCD536T/BCD & 436 HP scanners and the iCom IC-R20 wideband communication receivers. Having attained his Amateur Extra license, Mike is on the air with Cushcraft R8, Hy-Gain AV6160, AR-270B Verticals and Wideband Discone connected to a iCom IC-7700 HF-50Mhz/iCom 9100 HF/VHF/UHF All Mode Multi Bander transceiver or Yaesu FTdx 3000 HF-50Mhz or Yaesu FT-991 HF/VHF/UHF All Mode Multi Bander transceiver transceiver.

He was an amateur ham radio operator wa0am and received many awards. These awards ranged from ARRL Life Member, QRZ Life Member, WAS Digital, and more. He was also a guest of Mick Williams’ Cyber-Line Radio show on KSKY AM, WBAP AM and the IRN/USA Radio Network often hosting when Mick was out, and a prominent member of the “Round Table.”

He was a very talented web designer in his later years of life enjoying not only the creation of his own website but his sons. It is said that his coding was not only beautiful but a work of true art that stands up to this very day.

He will be truly missed not just by family but those that grew to know him via his adventures with radio, and online.

His dying wish was to have a charity set up in his name which has been completely destroyed by his son. So stay tuned, that link will be added when completed and the son has fixed all the wrong doings.