Area 51

Welcome to Area 51, your alternative shortwave experience. Here is the schedule for this weekend on WBCQ 5.110 MHz shortwave and simulcast on the net at the Splatterbox.

Thanks to an appeal from Allan Weiner and resulting donations, we are pleased to return to daily operation on 5110. Look for new and interesting programming Monday through Thursday from 8 to 10 p.m. US eastern time (0000 to 0200 UTC) on 5.110 MHz.

Schedule for May 14-20, 2012:

Monday 0000 Vinyl Vengeance (KAOS Radio Austin) 0200 off;

Tuesday 0000 Voice of the Dead; 0200 off;

Wednesday 0000 Radio Timtron Worldwide 4/15/2000; 0100 Radio Condofish; 0200 off;

Thursday 0000 Area 51; 0200 off;

Friday 0000 Allan Weiner Worldwide (live); 0130 Glenn Hauser’s World of Radio 1617; 0200 Jean Shepherd; 0300 off.

Saturday 2300 Radio Timtron Worldwide; 0000 Radio Clandestine; 0100 The Lumpy Gravy Radio Show (live); 0200 The Eric Dolphy Mystery Hour; 0300 off.

Sunday 2300 Radio Jamba International (live); 0000 Plastic Magic; 0200 Pirates Week; 0300 off.

Thanks for joining us! Our programming is unique on international radio, and we appreciate your support and feedback. We are always looking for new and interesting voices and welcome your contributions. Area 51 is an international community radio station operated in cooperation with WBCQ. All contributions go directly to airtime on the shortwave bands. All other costs are donated by the programmers and supporters.

Welcome to Area 51, your alternative shortwave experience. Here is the schedule for this weekend on WBCQ 5.110 MHz shortwave and simulcast on the net at the Splatterbox.

Thanks to an appeal from Allan Weiner and resulting donations, we are pleased to return to daily operation on 5110. Look for new and interesting programming Monday through Thursday from 8 to 10 p.m. US eastern time (0000 to 0200 UTC) on 5.110 MHz.

Schedule for May 7-13, 2012:

Monday 0000 Radio Timtron Worldwide, August 26, 2000; 0100 Radio Condofish; 0200 off;

Tuesday 0000 The Vinyl Jungle; 0200 off;

Wednesday 0000 Radio Timtron Worldwide, August 19, 2000; 0100 Radio Condofish;  0200 off;

Thursday 0000 The Lumpy Gravy Radio Show 32, April 23, 2005; Magic Radio, April 21, 2001; 0200 off;

Friday 0000 Allan Weiner Worldwide (live); 0130 Glenn Hauser’s World of Radio 1616; 0200 Jean Shepherd: Devil, Sin and Trivia (WOR, 3/14/1974); 0300 off.

Saturday 2300 Radio Timtron Worldwide; 0000 Radio Clandestine; 0100 The Lumpy Gravy Radio Show (live); 0200 The Eric Dolphy Mystery Hour; 0300 off.

Sunday 2300 Radio Jamba International (live); 0000 John Lightning/11L-RNI; 0300 off.

Thanks for joining us! Our programming is unique on international radio, and we appreciate your support and feedback. We are always looking for new and interesting voices and welcome your contributions. Area 51 is an international community radio station operated in cooperation with WBCQ. All contributions go directly to airtime on the shortwave bands. All other costs are donated by the programmers and supporters.

Welcome to Area 51, your alternative shortwave experience. Here is the schedule for this weekend on WBCQ 5.110 MHz shortwave and simulcast on the net at the Splatterbox.

Thanks to an appeal from Allan Weiner and resulting donations, we are pleased to return to daily operation on 5110. Look for new and interesting programming Monday through Thursday from 8 to 10 p.m. US eastern time (0000 to 0200 UTC) on 5.110 MHz.

Schedule for April 30-May 6, 2012:

Monday 0000 Henry Rollins’ Birthday Tribute to Iggy Pop; 0200 off;

Tuesday 0000 Radio Timtron Worldwide (1973); 0130 WRR (1965); 0200 off;

Wednesday 0000 Allan Weiner Worldwide 8/27/1999; 0115 Radio Condofish; 0200 off;

Thursday 0000 The Strange Life of Nicola Tesla; 0100 Is Paul Dead? (KGB San Diego 10/16/1969); 0200 off;

Friday 0000 Allan Weiner Worldwide (live); 0130 Glenn Hauser’s World of Radio 1615; 0200 Jean Shepherd: Cuckoo Birdism (WOR, 5/29/1975); 0300 off.

Saturday 2300 Radio Timtron Worldwide at the Winterfest (3/4/2006); 0000 Church of the Subgenius Hour of Slack 1358; 0100 The Lumpy Gravy Radio Show (live); 0200 The Lost Discs Radio Show (live); 0300 off.

Sunday 2300 Radio Jamba International (live); 0000 Plastic Magic (live); 0200 Pirates Week; 0300 off.

Thanks for joining us! Our programming is unique on international radio, and we appreciate your support and feedback. We are always looking for new and interesting voices and welcome your contributions. Area 51 is an international community radio station operated in cooperation with WBCQ. All contributions go directly to airtime on the shortwave bands. All other costs are donated by the programmers and supporters.

Welcome to Area 51, your alternative shortwave experience. Here is the schedule for this weekend on WBCQ 5.110 MHz shortwave and simulcast on the net at the Splatterbox.

Schedule for April 27-29, 2012:

Friday 0000 Allan Weiner Worldwide (live); 0130 Glenn Hauser’s World of Radio 1614; 0200 Jean Shepherd: Fifteen Myths and Three Ways To Live (WOR, 2/15/1962); 0300 off.

Saturday 2300 Radio Timtron Worldwide (live); 0000 Radio Clandestine; 0100 The Lumpy Gravy Radio Show (live); 0200 The Lost Discs Radio Show (live); 0300 off.

Sunday 2300 Radio Jamba International (live); 0000 John Lightning/11L-RNI; 0300 off.

Thanks for joining us! Our programming is unique on international radio, and we appreciate your support and feedback. We are always looking for new and interesting voices and welcome your contributions. Area 51 is an international community radio station operated in cooperation with WBCQ. All contributions go directly to airtime on the shortwave bands. All other costs are donated by the programmers and supporters.

Welcome to Area 51, your alternative shortwave experience. Here is the schedule for this weekend on WBCQ 5.110 MHz shortwave and simulcast on the net at the Splatterbox.

Schedule for April 20-22, 2012:

Friday 0000 Allan Weiner Worldwide (live); 0100 International Radio Report, Radio Canada International special; 0130 Glenn Hauser’s World of Radio 1613; 0200 Jean Shepherd: Telephone Crime (WOR, 1975); 0300 off.

Saturday 2300 Radio Timtron Worldwide (live); 0000 Radio Clandestine; 0100 The Lumpy Gravy Radio Show (live); 0200 The Eric Dolphy Mystery Hour; 0300 off.

Sunday 2300 Radio Jamba International (live); 0000 Plastic Magic (live); 0200 Pirates Week; 0300 off.

Thanks for joining us! Our programming is unique on international radio, and we appreciate your support and feedback. We are always looking for new and interesting voices and welcome your contributions. Area 51 is an international community radio station operated in cooperation with WBCQ. All contributions go directly to airtime on the shortwave bands. All other costs are donated by the programmers and supporters.

Some of you may know about my exploits involving WBCQ, a strange and wonderful radio station broadcasting on shortwave from the farthest reaches of northern Maine. Part of my work with WBCQ is taking their huge audio archive and making it available to all. They’ve been on the air since 1998 and are owned by a crazy bunch of pack rats who never throw away anything. Just about everything that any poor slob who’s ever had a program on the station has left behind some tape or CD or wire recording that was sitting in an old trailer with no windows until I happened along and volunteered to rescue it. I filled up an entire truckload with CDs, cassettes, VHSs and even the complete record collection from an earlier WBCQ that was a low power FM community station run by hippies in the 80s and brought it here to my cave for exploitation and preservation.

This past weekend I started recording the archives of a show called “The B Movie Bob Show,” which is exactly what it says, a guy named “Bob” playing the audio from old B movies and crap. This stuff is absolutely priceless. A representative show is from August 1, 2000, featuring music from “giant movies” such as The Village of the Giants, War of the Colossal Beast, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, The Cyclops, etc. Here we hear a couple of semi-rare Beau Brummels songs and some Jack Nitzche and other weirdo stuff.

B Movie “Bob” did about 25-30 weekly half hour shows for WBCQ before fading into obscurity. Eventually I will try and get them all ripped off hissette and posted. For your amusement you can sample this crap here…and feel free to sniff around the rest of the stuff on this site.

Welcome to Area 51, your alternative shortwave experience. Here is the schedule for this weekend on WBCQ 5.110 MHz shortwave and simulcast on the net at the Splatterbox.

Schedule for April 13-15, 2012:

Friday 0000 Allan Weiner Worldwide (live); 0130 Glenn Hauser’s World of Radio 1612; 0200 Jean Shepherd: Early Radio Job (WOR, 11/15/1965); 0300 off.

Saturday 2300 Radio Timtron Worldwide; 0000 Radio Clandestine; 0100 The Lumpy Gravy Radio Show (live); 0200 The Eric Dolphy Mystery Hour; 0300 off.

Sunday 2300 Radio Jamba International (live); 0000 John Lightning/11L-RNI; 0300 off.

Thanks for joining us! Our programming is unique on international radio, and we appreciate your support and feedback. We are always looking for new and interesting voices and welcome your contributions. Area 51 is an international community radio station operated in cooperation with WBCQ. All contributions go directly to airtime on the shortwave bands. All other costs are donated by the programmers and supporters.

Welcome to Area 51, your alternative shortwave experience. Here is the schedule for this weekend on WBCQ 5.110 MHz shortwave and simulcast on the net at the Splatterbox.

Schedule for April 6-8, 2012:

Friday 0000 Allan Weiner Worldwide (live); 0130 Glenn Hauser’s World of Radio 1611; 0200 The Lost Discs Radio Show (live); 0300 off.

Saturday 2300 Radio Timtron Worldwide; 0000 Radio Clandestine; 0100 The Lumpy Gravy Radio Show; 0200 The Jean Shepherd Show: Steel Mill Pickup Truck (WOR, 11/30/1968); 0300 off.

Sunday 2300 Radio Jamba International (live); 0000 Plastic Magic; 0200 Pirates Week; 0300 off.

Thanks for joining us! Our programming is unique on international radio, and we appreciate your support and feedback. We are always looking for new and interesting voices and welcome your contributions. Area 51 is an international community radio station operated in cooperation with WBCQ. All contributions go directly to airtime on the shortwave bands. All other costs are donated by the programmers and supporters.

Welcome to Area 51, your alternative shortwave experience. Here is the schedule for this weekend on WBCQ 5.110 MHz shortwave and simulcast on the net at the Splatterbox.

Schedule for March 30-April 1, 2012:

Friday 0000 Allan Weiner Worldwide; 0100 Glenn Hauser’s World of Radio 1610; 0130 The Jean Shepherd Show: One Man Radio Station (Syndicated, 1965); 0230 off.

Saturday 2300 Radio Timtron Worldwide (live); 0000 Radio Clandestine; 0100 The Lumpy Gravy Radio Show (live); 0200 The Eric Dolphy Mystery Hour (live); 0300 off.

Sunday 2300 Radio Jamba International (live); 0000 John Lightning/11L-RNI; 0300 off.

Thanks for joining us! Our programming is unique on international radio, and we appreciate your support and feedback. We are always looking for new and interesting voices and welcome your contributions. Area 51 is an international community radio station operated in cooperation with WBCQ. All contributions go directly to airtime on the shortwave bands. All other costs are donated by the programmers and supporters.

Welcome to Area 51, your alternative shortwave experience. Here is the schedule for this weekend on WBCQ 5.110 MHz shortwave and simulcast on the net at the Splatterbox.

Schedule for March 23-25, 2012:

Friday 0000 Allan Weiner Worldwide; 0100 Glenn Hauser’s World of Radio 1609; 0130 The Jean Shepherd Show: Sea Cow (WOR, 4/1971); 0230 off.

Saturday 2300 Radio Timtron Worldwide (live); 0100 The Lumpy Gravy Radio Show (live); 0200 The Eric Dolphy Mystery Hour (live); 0300 off.

Sunday 2300 Radio Jamba International (live); 0000 Plastic Magic (live); 0100 Church of the Subgenius Hour of Slack; 0300 off.

Thanks for joining us! Our programming is unique on international radio, and we appreciate your support and feedback. We are always looking for new and interesting voices and welcome your contributions. Area 51 is an international community radio station operated in cooperation with WBCQ. All contributions go directly to airtime on the shortwave bands. All other costs are donated by the programmers and supporters.