[AMRadio] AM radio in WY?

[Tommye & Jim Wilhite]

HI John:

Yes the end of next month is the final trip to Southern Oklahoma.  The wife
is finally pulling the plug on her job as I did sometime back.  We have a
house under construction in the hills surrounded by trees and wildlife.  It
will be close to my parents, who need help and our daughter in Dallas.  I
will have a fairly good station location, but 2 ft. underground is bedrock
which will not help in digging a 4' hole for the tower.

The station you heard is KTWO which is, I think, a 50 KW station here.  Sort
of a funny mix of programming from Rush Limbaugh to country/western music
some of the time.  They have really poor propagation for the power and I
suspect their ground system is crap now.  It is an old station and has
probably suffered from poor upkeep.

Glad to hear you are getting back to the Continental.  I will be changing my
email address when I move, but will post it when I have a new one.  All our
furniture and most everything else is already there and will just transport
some things that I felt best to not take and store.  The bad thing is that I
will be relegated to a dial up connection.  Sure is bad for big file
downloads.

Good to hear from you.

73  Jim
de W5JO

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John T. M. Lyles" <jtml at vla.com>
To: <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: <w5jo at alluretech.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 8:26 AM
Subject: [AMRadio] AM radio in WY?


> Hi Jim (W5JO),
> You moving back south for good? I didn't know you one of Leo's boys
> with the Globe. Well, maybe you told me when i was up there.
>
> I heard a Casper, WY Medium Wave station last night while driving
> home from work, around 1030 Kilocycles +/- 30? I was driving and
> didn't look down at the exact #. Then it faded into noise and a
> Mexican station blaster.
>
> Today work was called off (second time in two weeks) for a snowstorm.
> The whole northern half of  NM is getting it. So I will be working on
> the big Continental rig again. I am picking up an old air-cooled
> toaster element load this friday, in Roswell from KBIM 910. It needs
> work (few burnt connections) so I think I can fix it and put it to
> good use as a shack heater.  My two parallel globars didn't hold up
> over with > 500 Watts.
>
> 73
> John
> K5PRO
> Santa Fe County, NM
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