Welcome to Bob Gilmore's Radio & Airchecks

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It was a pleasure to put this page together full of radio memories. My favorite radio listening years is the late 60's through the late 80's. The Oldies and Top-40 radio stations are my favorites. Thank goodness there were people recording the radio back in the 60's when I was too young to own a tape recorder. In the 1970's, I started airchecking and have continued since, but have been trading my airchecks for only four years. It's a lot of fun. I have found that smaller trades are more fun than large ones. It's better because there's real quality time to listen to them and still have time for dubbing.

I grew up in the 60's, and started working in radio in 1976. My first commercial job in radio was at 1450 WNAB in Bridgeport, CT. Over the years I worked at several stations in Connecticut. Currently I work on the air part-time Sunday mornings for WEBE 108 in Connecticut. It's an Adult Contemporary format and helps me to keep in touch with my announcing skills. My full time job takes me to the Big Apple where I work as Senior Broadcast Engineer for the ABC Radio Networks.

Amateur Radio is another hobby for me. My call sign is WD1M. This is something that I have been involved in since the mid 80's. I was quite active in Dx-ing and even went to Iceland a couple of times to operate from there. It's just another radio outlet for me.

Enjoy the hobby of airchecking, it's a great way to bring back some memories of the past. Start digging in those attics and basements for those old tapes! If you find some decent Top-40 radio in decent shape and not edited, let me know, I may be interested! Here's My Want List. I'm sticking with this list and only accepting high quality recordings at this point. No large trades. I have very little time to do them.

Note: I'm no longer doing trades unless it's on my want list, high quality recordings and must be unscoped.

Alabama ¦ Alaska ¦ Arizona ¦ Arkansas ¦ California ¦ Colorado ¦ Connecticut ¦ Delaware ¦ District of Columbia ¦ Florida ¦ Georgia ¦ Hawaii ¦ Idaho ¦ Illinois ¦ Indiana ¦ Iowa ¦ Kansas ¦ Kentucky ¦ Louisiana ¦ Maine ¦ Maryland ¦ Massachusetts ¦ Michigan ¦ Minnesota ¦ Mississippi ¦ Missouri ¦ Montana ¦ Nebraska ¦ Nevada ¦ New Hampshire ¦ New Jersey ¦ New Mexico ¦ New York ¦ North Carolina ¦ North Dakota ¦ Ohio ¦ Oklahoma ¦ Oregon ¦ Pennsylvania ¦ Rhode Island ¦ South Carolina ¦ South Dakota ¦ Tennessee ¦ Texas ¦ Utah ¦ Vermont ¦ Virginia ¦ Washington ¦ West Virginia ¦ Wisconsin ¦ Wyoming ¦

Alberta ¦ British Columbia ¦ Manitoba ¦ New Brunswick ¦ New Foundland & Labrador ¦

Nova Scotia ¦ Ontario ¦ Prince Edward Island ¦ Québec

¦ Saskatchewan ¦ Yukon

Australia ¦ Belgium ¦ France ¦ Iceland ¦ Japan ¦ Jamaica ¦ Luxembourg ¦ Mexico ¦

Netherlands ¦ Sweden ¦ United Kingdom ¦ Other Country Listings

Show Listings

My lists have as much available information on each tape as I can get. I have been adding DJ's names, format and quality. This will help all of us in making decisions on a particular aircheck. Nobody wants to get a poor quality, one channel, hiss aircheck tape. If I get one of these, I try my best to re-master it. Then I may be able to upgrade the quality. A few airchecks have been so bad I never bothered to list them. There are a few poor quality tapes listed, but they are marked. If a date isn’t listed, It may have one in the future. If you see "TBD" on an aircheck listing, this means "to Be Determined" under that particular column. This past year I have made great progress getting names and dates to go with the airchecks.

All airchecks that have a " * " listed near the tape number, means it's not the original master.