Portugal Part II / RFM 104.1

The next part of our trip began with a bus ride from Lisbon to the beautiful northern city of Porto.  Tour stops over the next three days included Braga, Guimarães, Amarante and the Douro Valley, home to their famous Port wine.  We also took a boat tour highlighting Porto's many bridges.

Dom Luís I Bridge

São Bento Train Station

Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte

Castle of Guimarães

Douro Valley

RFM is a Pop music station with dozens of frequencies across the country including 104.1 FM in Porto.  They went on the air as Radio Renascença in January 1987. 
 

Portugal Part I / Nova Antena

We recently got back from a fantastic 12 day vacation to Portugal.  It was our first time in Europe and it definitely did not disappoint. The trip was split into three sections:  Lisbon and surrounding areas, Porto and the Douro Valley and finally the Algarve Region including Faro, Lagos and the beaches of southern Portugal.  Our overnight flight landed around 9AM but we couldn't check into our hotel for awhile so we dropped off our luggage and walked around the city like zombies--neither of us slept a wink on the plane.  We did a walking tour of Alfama which is the oldest (and possibly hilliest) neighborhood in the city.  It survived an earthquake and subsequent tsunami in 1755 which destroyed the rest of Lisbon.  The next day was a bicycle tour with many stops along the waterfront and some interesting history along the way.  Day three consisted of an all-day tour of Sintra including Pena Palace and the beautiful grounds of Quinta da Regaleira.  We then spent a couple nights in Cascais and enjoyed walking the beachfront promenade to Estoril.

Rua Augusta Arch

Belém Tower

Decorative umbrellas on Pink Street

Elevador da Glória funicular

UPDATE:  About four months after this shot was taken, the cable disconnected from this exact funicular (or the unpictured companion trolley that uses the parallel track--I'm not sure which.) 16 people were killed and 21 injured after the tram sped down the hill, jumped the track and smashed into a building.

Pena Palace

Quinta da Regaleira

Cabo da Roca lighthouse -- the westernmost point in continental Europe.

Radio Nova Antena broadcasts at 101.3 FM from Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal.  Apparently they used to have a signal in Lisbon (or perhaps this sticker is from a different Radio Nova Antena and not the current RNA.

WZBT

91.1 FM WZBT is the student-run station at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.  They went on the air at 90.3 FM with a 10-watt signal in 1978 and moved to their current dial position in 1982.

WRVM

102.7 FM WRVM is a Christian radio station in Green Bay/Appleton, Wisconsin.  Programming is simulcast on over two dozen other stations and translators throughout northern and central Wisconsin and parts of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.  WRVM has always carried a Religious format since going on the air in September 1967. 

WOOF

99.7 WOOF is a 100,000-watt Adult Contemporary station in Dothan, Alabama.

WGRX

"Thunder 104.5" WGRX is a Country station in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
 

KSJS

KSJS is the student-run station at San Jose State University in San Jose, California.  They went on the air in February 1963 at 90.7 FM and moved to 90.5 FM some time in the 1990s.

KPOW

1260 AM KPOW airs a mix of News/Talk and Country music in Powell, Wyoming.
 

KFIM

92.3 FM KFIM was a Top-40 station in El Paso, Texas from 1978 to 1986.
 

WWWE

1100 AM in Cleveland, Ohio carried the WWWE call letters from 1972 to 1996.  They originally aired a mix of MOR music and Sports but moving to full-time News/Talk/Sports in the mid-1980s.  The 1100 AM frequency is currently home to News/Talk station WTAM.

 

WRES

100.7 FM WRES airs Jazz, Gospel and Urban Contemporary music aimed at African-American listeners in Asheville, North Carolina.  The 94-watt, low-power FM station went on the air in 2004.
 

WNGC

WNGC in Athens, Georgia was on the air at 95.5 FM from 1968 to 1999.  (W) North Georgia Country now broadcasts at 106.1 FM and is licensed to Arcade, GA.
 

WKDE

1000 AM WKDE was on the air in Altavista, Virginia from 1962 to 2018, most, if not all of those years, as a Country station.  The frequency is currently home to Oldies outlet WGVY.  Sister station 105.5 FM WKDE began in 1969 and plays Classic Country.
 

WFKZ

"Sun 103.1" WFKZ is a 100,000-watt Classic Rock station licensed to Plantation Key, Florida.
 

WCEV

1450 AM WCEV was a time brokered Ethnic station licensed to Cicero, Illinois.  They shared the frequency with WXOL with WCEV on the air from 1PM to 10 PM on weekdays and WXOL filling all the remaining hours.  WCEV went off the air in January 2020 after more than 40 years of broadcasting.

KYSN

97.7 FM KYSN has been a Country station in Wenatchee, Washington since the mid-1980s.
 

KROF

AM 960 KROF began as a daytime-only outlet in Abbeville, Louisiana in 1948.  Their call letters stood for the three main exports of Vermilion Parish at the time (K) Rice, Oil and Furs.  A sister station at 104.9 FM went on the air in 1974 and would occasionally simulcast with their AM half.  Formats over the years included Top-40, Country, Classic Country, Oldies and Cajun (broadcast entirely in French!)  KROF-AM is a News/Talk station while the FM half moved up a notch to 105.1 and now has the call letters KFTE.
 

KNNN

KNNN "Mix 99.3 FM" was a Top-40 station in Redding, California.
 

KJJR

880 AM KJJR is a News/Talk station in Kalispell, Montana.  They went on the air in 1979 at their original frequency of 1400 AM with a mix of Top-40, Oldies and Classic Country.  Their call letters are an homage to KJR in Seattle.  KJJR is also heard on an FM translator licensed to Whitefish, MT.
 

KCNL

104.9 FM KCNL was on the air in San Jose, California from 1999 to 2012 (except for a brief 10 day period with the call letters KMJO in 2005.)  Many of those years were spent as an Alternative Rock station and also as a Spanish outlet as "Enamorada 104.9" circa the mid 2000s.  In 2012 KCNL was sold to the University of Southern California.  The frequency currently airs Classical music with the call letters KXSC, a simulcast of San Francisco's KDFC.