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What's NEW on the site?
Spring 2008 - Don't forget the NAB Show. Our
Lunch Gathering will be on
Tuesday as usual. info here
We are happy that our "regular" sponsors are again helping us
with the logistics of the Lunch.
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Winter 2008 - We are starting to update some
of the city pages, with the help
of some nice folks, including Jeffrey Bottalico. If you have
some
information to share, please do.
If all goes well, some of the transmitter and console pictures
will start appearing soon. We are also looking for stories ...
how you felt about the gear while you were using it. Let us know!
April 2007 - We have updated the RCA
50 kW and Harris 5 kW pages, among
others. Also, there are some additional pages on the clear
channel stations.
Summer 2006 - Many folks have enquired about the
availability of old manuals,
spec sheets, etc. Sometimes they are looking for history,
sometimes they want to rebuild an old console or some other
piece of gear - and sometimes the HAVE to repair something
STILL IN SERVICE!
Can you help? If you have any old manuals you would like to
share, please do send us scans, pdfs, or even the manuals,
so we can share them with others. The BDR is
partially being
re-arranged to have more manuals available, as is Harold
Hallikainen's site (if you have Internet access when you need
a manual).
June 2006 - We continue to work on the Clear Channel (now known as
Class A) stations.
Look on the "stations and station history" page, about six new
ones have gone in over the past month or so.
Some more pix have arrived and some histories. Can you help?
December 19, 2004 - A small plane hits and destroys KFI's tower. Pictures from the scene.
Fall 2004 - The KFI
page is up, along with some great stories by Newcomb
Weisenberger
about his years as a transmitter engineer for the station.
(Sadly, as noted above, the KFI tower is down.)
What is your favorite I-A or I-B (old
style) channel?
If you can, please share some information, pictures, memories with
us!
Our listings of the Tucson folks' "Where
are they now?"
recently have been expanded.
April 2004 - The Clear
Channel page has been updated, and a great pictorial tour of
KRLA, Pasadena
added with the help of Marvin Collins, Harvey Smith,
Ted Shireman, Bill Earl, Earl Arbuckle,
and Newcomb Weisenberger.
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