 WQMF was one of the first totally automated radio stations in the area and maybe the country.Its equipment package was named "Silent Sam" by engineers assigned to operate it as it played "beautiful music" from audio tapes supplied by a syndicator.The engineers' main function was tending to WQMF's sister station 1290 WGLI which required first class FCC licensed personnel because of its three tower directional antenna (1290 WGLI was shut down permanently in 1989).