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On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 7:56 PM Paul B. Walker, Jr. via groups.io
<walkerbroadcasting=gmail.com@groups.io> wrote:

> Some of you either figured out what was up or I told you directly for one
> reason or another
>
> I’m now the program director for KSKO-FM 89.5 McGrath, Alaska.
> 90 watts at -81 feet. The transmit antenna is the cross shaped 2 bay Scala
> FMO dipole at the very top and that yellow dish just below it is the STL
> for the now defunct KSKO 870, which was 10kw non directional full time.
> The tower still stands even though the AM has been off for 5 years. Space
> is leased to GCI for cell phone service on the old AM tower 2 miles south
> of town, and one of the reasons the AM went off and was replaced with low
> power FM repeaters is because the AM was (and now cell is) generator
> powered, at $ 5-6 a gallon.
> What spelled the end of the AM was back in 2013 or so when the barge
> couldn’t make it up river and gas ballooned to $ 8.50 a gallon.
> The class D repeaters KSKO has are in about half a dozen other villages
> fed by Barix boxes and satellite internet.
> Yes, milk, fruits/veggies and stuff is as expensive up here as you think.
> Yes it’s cold. I am still doing my other radio jobs via remote
> voicetracking, I'll continue Afternoons on Hits 106 KLMI Laramie, WY...
> I'll continue Sunday afternoons on WHGM Gold in MAryland and overnights on
> Local Radio Networks 24/7 Classic Country format.
>
> I have my icom 746pro and a longwire, a DXE Preamp, an Emtech ZM2 tuner
> and I have a loop on the way from Doxytronics for my DXing. I eventually
> plan on getting an SDR connected to the internet set up out here.
>
> Paul
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