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Please spread the word about our new home on the World Wide Web. Also, if you would, please leave a quick comment to let me know that you made the move along with us!
RadioGeekHeaven.com is ON THE AIR!
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#1 by Marty Melia on December 14, 2009 - 9:24 am
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Hey Drew! Love your web site! I hope you get lots of Radio “Geeks” stopping by. I still “get” to do an hour and half of live radio a week…after being in radio “all my life” (54 years), its not really enough, but it will have to do for now. Rock on!
#2 by Drew on December 14, 2009 - 7:19 pm
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Hey Marty,
Welcome aboard. I’m honored to have someone here who is part of a three generation radio family!
Do you have any tape of “Kloey Klassifieds” with Ron Rempe? Seriously, I’d love to put this up!
Drew
#3 by Frank Berry on December 31, 2009 - 3:51 am
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Appreciated hearing your short aircheck from KOB, Albuquerque. At the time this aircheck was recorded, I was the Chief Engineer for KOB. Good catch.
#4 by Drew on January 1, 2010 - 8:16 am
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Hi Frank,
KOB was always solid during the “window” between sunset in Minneapolis and sunset in Albuquerque. As soon as KUOM signed off, it was there until pattern change time. Another station I could do this with was KHEY. They were pretty strong immediately after KTCR signed off. Especially in the winter/spring.
Thanks for the note. Come bacl anytime!
Drew
#5 by Frank Berry on January 1, 2010 - 11:21 am
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While in Albuquerque, I was able to hear the nighttime signal from KSTP regularly.
It’s amazing that, do to their frequency, the daytime coverage is pretty miserable (20-30 miles) but their nighttime skywave signal is very good.
Before KOB, I worked for WGTO, Cypress Gardens, FL.
50,000 watts daytime and 1,000 watts nighttime at 540kHz. Back in October, 1980, I put the daytime transmitter on the air after midnight to do some pattern measurements and adjustments.
I received reception reports from just about every state and sent out a big pile of QSL cards. I would appreciate receiving a scanned copy of one of the QSL cards which I sent.
#6 by Drew on January 6, 2010 - 8:29 am
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The interesting thing about KSTP is that it does great at a distance, but has signal problems locally at night. As the MSP metro has sprawled into western Wisconsin, that has become an issue because of the tight null towards Washington, DC. But even within the main lobe, there are problems with skywave/groundwave cancellation. I was up in Apple Valley a few years ago (about 20 miles WSW of the transmitter) and you’d hear distortion and noise as you drove around. Further west in the metro, it’s even more of a problem. When the Twins moved from WCCO to KSTP a few years back, there were several complaints from fans that could no longer hear the games clearly after sunset.
Drew