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Post by friendlee on Feb 10, 2024 13:22:56 GMT -6
You are correct on West Mountain (though it is known by the guys that maintain sites there as Spider Mountain for very obvious reasons - think Alfred Hitchcock!).
The booster/translator site up above Pleasant View is often just referred to as Rocky Point even though the actual geographic feature known as Rocky Point is about half a mile west (and there's not much left to it).
Old Vision where KBYU-FM, KJMY, and KBEE are was the original TV Channel 4 site. It was a super-classic operation in it's day.
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Post by friendlee on Jan 10, 2024 17:33:05 GMT -6
Well, it's some really old late 40's - early 50's instrumental recordings from what I believe were originally on 16" transcription discs (the repeating pops are a bit slower than if they were off a 33-1/3 disc). The fidelity has that swing era feel (think Chuck Cecil's Swingin' Years) and it seems appropriate for what night be coming out of a radio on a lazy Sunday afternoon. This runs from midnight to 6am and again from 3pm back to midnight. A lot of So-and-so and His Orchestra. Since it had already been dubbed into a digital format, it made it a bit easier to implement. My original plan was like CA said: "Mantovani, 101 Strings, Ferrante & Teicher and other similar artists." Who knows, with more time on my hands I might be able to incorporate more of those artists than just these not-too-scratchy old recordings.
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Post by friendlee on Jan 8, 2024 19:19:10 GMT -6
KVWJ is at 94.9 FM heard in the south end of Cache County, namely in Hyrum, it's city of license. It'd be nice to stream but I can't afford the streaming fees so it's radio-only and that's ok. We just got our RDS up and running so if you're within our city-grade coverage, you get to see the details. Our website is KVWJ.org and it contains some radio history, some details about the station, and some stories about what we have been doing (I really need to update that page!). If you are driving through, please take a listen and give some feedback.
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Post by friendlee on Dec 31, 2023 23:28:14 GMT -6
Just so you all know, as of midnight tonight, I am retiring after over 18 years at UPR (KUSU-FM), 26 years at USU, and 43 years in commercial/public broadcasting and satellite uplink. The timing was such that I was able to put together a plan that will provide for me and my family and give me time to pursue several projects and interests, focusing especially on the low-power FM radio station I operate here in Hyrum. But don't worry, I'll still around here.
Here's to a Happy New Year for all of us!
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Post by friendlee on Dec 13, 2023 18:46:02 GMT -6
Oh, yeah, to avoid any confusion, right now Behind the Headlines is a production of UPR and the Trib, Jazz Time is a production of UPR ("best of" in essence), and BSOTA is a separate production which is aired exclusively on UPR at this time.
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Post by friendlee on Dec 13, 2023 17:42:19 GMT -6
Nope, we've actually discussed all I could not say at the time so it's all good. Silent until after the license goes through, 60-90 days, Radio Bilingue, all that. And yes, “Behind the Headlines,” “Both Sides of the Aisle” and “Jazz Time with Steve Williams” will still be produced and aired by UPR.
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Post by friendlee on Nov 3, 2023 8:23:54 GMT -6
I'm still "embargoed" even with these public statements. I'll find out what I can say....
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Post by friendlee on Aug 14, 2023 16:50:07 GMT -6
When we moved KUSU-FM out to the Clarkston site in the summer of 1980, we discovered a few things. KUSU-FM while on the USU campus at 18.5 kW could not be heard on the east side of the valley north of Smithfield (this was the case since we signed on in 1953). Crow Mountain does a very effective job of terrain shielding the campus signal from Richmond, parts of Lewiston, Cove, Franklin, and Preston. Moving added those communities into our coverage as well as picking up locales north and east of Preston. The move also allowed us to cover over into the Tremonton and Brigham City areas (as well as west of Ogden and Salt Lake and clear down to Delta!) and to bleed over sufficiently to Bear Lake for the beginnings of our state-wide translator network (Laketown and Randolph). However, it also cut off the entire area known as the "island" (a densely-populated residential area south of campus up to the mouth of Logan Canyon) and weakened our coverage in the southern end of Cache County due to distance low over terrain (the Clarkston site is 16.92 miles northwest of campus). Also, most of Wellsville could not pick us up due to terrain elevation issues (Wellsville is lower than the east slopes/east bench of the Wellsville Mountains). When we moved, with the HAAT at the Clarkston site being lower than the HAAT at the Quonset Hut, our ERP was lowered from 18.5 to 16.4 kW. Even with increasing KUSU-FM's power to 90 KW ERP, there were still receptions problems in southern Cache Valley. At first a ten-watt then a 100-watt translator was put in place on campus with directional cross-pol antennas pointed south and south west to effect a fill-in signal. We found that even though 10-watts took care of the "island" reception problem, distance and terrain still won out south of town. In the late 1990's KUSR (820 W ERP) was signed on to fill-in in the areas that could not hear KUSU-FM. There you have it.
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Post by friendlee on May 9, 2023 11:02:35 GMT -6
The whole thing had a feel of a promo to it. That was my take away....there were a few cool parts (like the guy who when he was a kid lived out in the apartment in the basement of the old transmitter building when his dad was on the engineering staff) but I agree, it was rather promotional about the future of 102.7 riding on the historic coattails of 1160.
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Post by friendlee on Apr 22, 2023 16:48:42 GMT -6
And here I was at NAB......
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Post by friendlee on Apr 7, 2023 11:28:40 GMT -6
Depends on the format of the station.......and how well her bedsprings act as audio rectifiers!
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Post by friendlee on Mar 31, 2023 12:43:32 GMT -6
Punk Country! I wanna whip your cow, I wanna whip your cow, I wanna hear her moo, so do you, so do you, so do you, so do you!
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Post by friendlee on Mar 27, 2023 9:48:09 GMT -6
Hmmmm.......I agree!
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Post by friendlee on Mar 9, 2023 12:32:16 GMT -6
Ummmmm...I think the commission still takes a dim view of "...the property owner demolish[ing] two remaining towers at the Iona site, destroy[ing] the transmitter building and remov[ing] all of the broadcasting equipment...." especially if A) the license was still valid , and B) the site lease was still in effect no matter how close to the expiry date it may have been. Short of having every last detail in front of me, I feel unless there had been a legal declaration of abandonment, that what happened was more or less reckless destruction of somebody else's property which last I checked, is still illegal (even in Idaho!).
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Post by friendlee on Feb 23, 2023 23:56:53 GMT -6
I'm sure it is but since I have to snowshoe into that site and with the instability of the weather over the next week, I'm not sure when I can safely trudge up there. Between Rocky Point and Reservoir Hill in Brigham, these two sites win the prize for being the most difficult to get into within spitting distance on a windy day of houses!
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