[IRCA] Man flees Washington DC; retires.

[Charles A Taylor <MWDXer@xxxxxxx>]

At 11:11 PM 8/25/2007 -0600, you wrote:
> >From the "it's a small world" department: The brother of the CE that I
>work for now was the CE who built the Marathon FL facility. He said that
>the working title during the construction phase was Radio Free Cuba.
>After the completion of the project he was promoted to a position in DC
>which he hated. He said the only place he could afford to live was 50
>miles out of DC and he had to commute in daily by train. He eventually
>got transferred back to Marathon. But they had budget problems a decade
>or so ago and gave him the choice of accepting a lower rated position or
>retiring at his then current position. He did the math and found out
>that he would make more retiring at the higher position than he would
>make if he continued working at the lower position! So he's long retired
>from them now and lives in the Waco TX area where he is the radio
>engineer for the water department that serves the Bush ranch!
>Unfortunately he no longer has any contacts within Radio Marti.
>
>By the way, the studios for Radio Marti were in DC from 1985 until about
>1996 when they moved to the Miami area.
>
>Didn't I just read that there is a CP on 1180 somewhere in the northern
>part of FL? I would think that they would be quite unhappy if Marti was
>to go ND with 100 kw.
>
>Patrick Griffith, CBT CBNT CRO
>Westminster CO
Patrick,

Please advise (direct at <MWDXer@xxxxxxx>) who the fellow was that saw
the light and got out of Dodge City (WASHDC) and moved to Marathon.

Sounds like the period when Martí was still a subagency of VOA and had
to put up with VOA's budget. Later, Martí became equal with VOA and
got separate funding from VOA. This funding was enhanced by the political
clout of the (mostly Republican) Cuban-American community in Miami/Dade.
Martí moved studios down to Hialeah (sp?) so it could be better control-
led by forsaid community).

AS far as I can see, except for unusual circumstance, Martí-1180 would
not go to ND because of WHAM-1180.

Just my thoughts.

Charles/Gato


>  Charles A Taylor, WD4INP

  Greenville, North Carolina 



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