Wow! Old rotary pots on the K101 board. Whodda thunk? Looks like something from the '50s. The control room is spotless, however. I wouldn't know what to do without posters and graffiti on the walls and stacks of carts and reams of paper cluttering up the place.

I like putting up the Christmas tree - it's part of the holiday festivities, part of the season. I don't think I'd feel the same way if I left it up and just re-trimmed it. We've been doing the real tree thing for some time now. I love spending a nice October day hunting down just the right tree and marking it for later harvest. And I love gettting out the saw in December and bringing my prize home to its place of honor. But I hate trying to keep the damn thing watered and I am tired of the constant clean-up to say nothing of the mess on take down day. So screw it. I'm in the market for a good artificial, pre-lit Christmas memory maker.

Hey, I know I have some Modesto photos somewhere. (My mother who is still with us at 92 years young says, "everything is somewhere". I have to get stuff together at some point. I still have things packed from the 9 year ago move. Maybe I'll grab a box tonight and sit on the floor during t.v. Usually I had 2 prints made and I think you ended up with 1 of most. Talk soon, K.

I was looking at the Flikr photos and one of them says the KOSO tower is no longer used. What are they using for a transmitter site now?

Yup Deane...not only not used...but for sale. I don't know when they did it but they moved the tower to the valley floor at 50,000erp.....is that the right way to say it? Here is the Google link to the location. click here There was a lot of 'magic' when we had a funky tower location. The best was the Seattle/Tacoma FM tower location. Also on top of a mountain, but totally inaccessible in the winter and with no power lines. Generators produced the electricity and huge tanks held enough diesel to get thru most winters. Snowmobiles enabled the engineers to maintain the site and after particularly severe storms helicopters did the job. I think they kept 100,000 gallons of diesel on site. Or not. I know it was a lot. Come to think of it, almost all my stations had unique tower sites. WDGY ...9 free standing towers. KDWB six tall ones. WEBC...across Lake Superior. Well..not all. Austin, Green Bay, Cedar Rapids, KSTP, U100....just some field. I liked it better before I started thinking about it.

I'll be off line for a few days while I travel....see you all when I get there.

Doesn't seem like the best location. KHOP (FM) had a much better approach from the mountain side. Gave them an effective ERP much higher than 50,000.