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I've never heard anything else like them, though some over-the-air and online sources make me think, temporarily, that I'm listening to WHFS.
Try WTMD, at Towson University in Towson MD. It's where Weasel (Jonathan Gilbert) ended up.
I'm in Alexandria VA. I'm experimenting with antennas to see if can get WTMD over the air on a Technics receiver. It's touch and go. Several Baltimore stations come in with a strong signal, sufficient for listening in stereo -- WYPR, the classical station at 88.1 MHz; WBJC; WIYY; and so on. Towson, though, must be over a ridge that blocks the signal. WTMD is not exactly a powerhouse either. Some days (with rabbit ears) it comes in great; other days, not much at all.
On a TEAC HD-1 HD radio -- I have it on now in the next room -- I am rarely able to coax WTMD into going into the HD mode. Most of the time, it comes in in analog, with no bars. Those other three stations I mentioned, all in Baltimore, come in with five bars.
Also try WTOP HD3, The Gamut. It's probably as close to WHFS as you're going to get. WTMD has two HD subchannels; both can be found online. WTOP's HD3 sub channel does not show up online.
What you can do to listen to The Gamut is to listen to it via its Frederick MD outlet's HD sub channel. The base station, so to speak, is WSHE, at 820kHz. The programming of its digital subchannel is a duplicate of what you'd hear on WTOP HD3.
How does an AM station send out an HD signal? That is a really long story. The Wikipedia article says that "The Gamut began as an eclectic hobby Internet radio station run by WTOP-FM engineer Dave Kolesar." Online, WSHE is known as WWFD. Again from Wikipedia:
As WWFD, [WSHE] was the first licensed radio station in the United States to discontinue its traditional AM analog signal and operate solely in digital-only HD Radio MA3 mode, which it began under experimental authorization from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2018. WWFD's experiments with digital-only operation led to the FCC authorizing it on a voluntary basis for AM band stations nationwide in 2020.
Dave's efforts have won him recognition:
Frederick MD is much too far for me to get WSHE/WWFD over the air, especially with the Catoctin Mountains in the way. With WTOP right across the river, there's not point. When I want to listen to The Gamut through my Technics receiver though, I do so via WWFD online.
Let me know if you need any help finding those stations. They are well worth the effort to track down.
I wish I could hear "My Three Songs" one more time. Let's end with this:
Joe King Carrasco - Party Weekend HD
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Joe King Carrasco, who is known as the king of Tex-Mex Rock n Roll,[citation needed] mixes Nuevo Wavo rock and Latin rhythms. In the 7th grade he started playing in garage bands in the west Texas town of Dumas, Texas. He was often found on the beaches of Mexico, falling in love with the Mexican music. Back in Texas he formed the band Joe King Carrasco and El Molino, which included many of the future members of the Texas Tornados. He released “Tex-Mex Rock & Roll”, his first LP in 1979.
Carrasco was interviewed in Rolling Stone Magazine and appeared on Saturday Night Live. His song Party Weekend was re-recorded by MTV as Party Christmas, and that video is still a popular "share" every Christmas among Facebook fans.
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