Re: [IRCA] WOKJ

["Mike Brooker" <aum108@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> WOKJ was a real powerhouse.  During the day they were pretty much
> directional east-west protecting 1550 in Shreveport and then, 50kw WMOO in 
> Mobile.
> WMOO eventually changed frequency to 660 and uses the same tower  site.
> At night the 10kw pattern was more WNW and ESE, right at Jacksonville 
> where
> some nights they sounded like a local.  WOKJ used six towers day and night
> and since they had a 100kw FM, it got to the point it was too expensive to
> maintain so they pulled the plug.  Across a good hunk of Dixie, WOKJ was 
> WLAC's
> only competition.


WOKJ was my first Mississippi station heard, in 1976, back in the days when 
I was adding new states to my logbook..and back when CBE-1550 used to sign 
off at 0105 ELT.  After that WOKJ logging, it took me almost 30 years to add 
a new state (Fox Farm, WY on 1630).

I heard WMOO on an equipment test in 1977.  QSLed with verie letter signed 
by Wilbur H. Goforth.  One of those names that may be a candidate for the 
Roger Kaputnik award - a real person whose name could have been contrived by 
MAD magazine - along with former NHLer Zarley Zalapski, and former Padres 
(and/or Braves?) pitcher Juan Eichelberger.


73

Mike Brooker
Toronto, ON 

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