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Title: Ion Radio 6870 AM 1729 UTC 18 OCT 2020
Post by: ✠ Blue Max on October 18, 2020, 1729 UTC
Actual freq is probably more like 6869.8 - sounds better when I tune just a hair below 6870.

OM Speaking - something has exploded in mid air, mention of a helicopter, an observatory, and the planet Mars. Old time radio show?

Heard name "Irv Weinstein" and mention of Dunkirk, so this is definitely the Buffalo "War of the Worlds" broadcast. The Martians have landed on Grand Island and are fording the (Niagara) river toward the city. All power and communication has been knocked out in Lackawanna. Something about the Thruway.

Great program - real local broadcasters, local details - must have been terrifying!

1752: "India Oscar November" ION radio ident, then off the air

Thanks for the show!

Recording:
https://archive.org/details/ion-radio-6870-am-1729-utc-18-oct-2020 (https://archive.org/details/ion-radio-6870-am-1729-utc-18-oct-2020)
Title: Re: UNID 6870 AM 1729 UTC 18 OCT 2020
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on October 18, 2020, 1730 UTC
1645 Sign on per SDR recording - Ion Radio theme music heard.

1729 Sounds like a radio drama, SIO 333. Mention of Mars, War of the Worlds style program? Mention of western New York, Grand Island. Probably the WKBW War of the Worlds from 1968.
1753 ID and off. Thanks for the memories, I lived in the area in the 1970s.
Title: Re: Ion Radio 6870 AM 1729 UTC 18 OCT 2020
Post by: Bali_Frank on October 18, 2020, 1743 UTC
signal S7+- on the SDR in Fair Hill, Maryland
17.40 "reporters" talking, a radio play?
17.51 ID (a woman)
17.52 off
Title: Re: Ion Radio 6870 AM 1729 UTC 18 OCT 2020
Post by: vhavrilko on October 18, 2020, 1756 UTC
Via remote SDR.
1743: Tuned into Mars invasion program.
1750: Abruptly off.