I live in Rochester, NY. I moved back here (checks calendar) 22 years ago.

I’ve been involved in Toppy from here for better than half that time.

And when did I last update my very own hometown’s IDs here on Toppy? (checks calendar)

That would appear to have been… um, sometime in 2014.

Which was, admittedly, an year of almost unfathomable crapitude, but still.

And here’s the particularly stupid part of this: every year in January, I amuse myself while being snowed in by airchecking the crap out of my hometown, trying to record one shift from every single talent who’s on the air here locally. (It’s become super-fun since all these community LPFMs popped up, with all kinds of interesting programming.)

Point is, my hard drives are choked to bursting with Rochester audio, including legal IDs. And at least I’m trying to start getting caught up, starting this week with the AM dial and half of the FM dial. More to come!

Apologies to our condiment-making friends from Pittsburgh…but it’s true: we’re almost caught up here on Toppy to where we are on Tower Site of the Week. To go along with our recent Site of the Week installment, here’s a big pile of Raleigh-Durham IDs from 2015 and 2016, plus some IDs from nearby Roanoke Rapids NC. Enjoy!

I’ve been doing some fairly intense traveling, mostly to the 845, the 201, the 212 and the 718, with 717, 301 and 202 on this upcoming week’s agenda. But I finally found a few minutes to catch up with the Florida trip segments that have been appearing on Tower Site of the Week (here and here), so feast your ears on a whole smorgasbord of sounds from the Fort Myers-Naples market (that would be “239”) and a swath of very rural south central Florida I’m calling the Lake Okeechobee area (the “863”). Enjoy!

We kick off 2013 here on Toppy with some IDs that I was hoping to refresh in the final days of 2012. Had the weather (and a huge breaking local news story, and spousal health which made me found out about Vision20 online) not intervened, Blaine and I would have been somewhere around Lafayette, Indiana in late December. But we weren’t, and so instead this is a good excuse to bring you a bunch of IDs rather quickly recorded during an unexpected stop in Lafayette earlier in 2012.

But wait, there’s more! We also bring you the very first new IDs of 2013 – the sounds of Boston‘s WTKK 96.9 with its first ID after the end of its long talk format, as it headed into what may or may not be a stunt with urban as “Power 96.9” earlier this morning. And up the dial, there are new calls at 101.7 – say goodbye to the short-lived WHBA and welcome WEDX, for “Evolution 101.7.” (Hey Jeff – did you record any “Evolution” under the WHBA calls these last few weeks?)

Starting next week, it’ll be all sunshine and palm trees here for a while, as I start to get serious about digging out “Scott’s Big Trip ’11,” which was all Florida, all the time. Stay tuned!