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Resetting the Lamptimer for DST?
- Thread starter DrAkbar
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Only if you remember the day when KUPD pulled the switch to the FM on South Mountain and began promoting itself as FM first!Do "listening to KRUX, KRIZ, or KUPD in the mid '70s" and driving my folks' 1973 Gremlin to MCC count as prerequisites?
Times have changed....it's now Avocado Toaster Talk. Non GMO, but of course!
Nope. I cheated and found one of your old posts from 2006, where you said it was "Summer 1974." I wasn't in Arizona between late-May and mid-August in my college days. I was running my folks' small resort in northern Wisconsin, escaping the heat. I don't recall hearing any difference when I came back in the Fall, but living in the Thomas Mall area, KUPD-FM always put a decent signal there.
You will know that you have a full understanding of all things Media Hut. .
When you refer to Bonneville only as TMISU. Don't worry, this one is not on the quiz.
When you guess the first 100 degree day of the year within a 7 day accuracy.
And this is very important! Have you ever received a Ladmo Bag, and/or made your parents bring you to a Wallace and Ladmo stage show at Legend City?
And I do recommend the 1 week seminar "Lamptimers in the Desert", as well as the field trip to pay homage to Lumberyard 1440, with a lunch of beans and rice served by the canal.
When you refer to Bonneville only as TMISU. Don't worry, this one is not on the quiz.
When you guess the first 100 degree day of the year within a 7 day accuracy.
And this is very important! Have you ever received a Ladmo Bag, and/or made your parents bring you to a Wallace and Ladmo stage show at Legend City?
And I do recommend the 1 week seminar "Lamptimers in the Desert", as well as the field trip to pay homage to Lumberyard 1440, with a lunch of beans and rice served by the canal.
I was too late for Legend City, but I did see them at the Arizona State Fair in 1974.
How the canal was able to serve food, I don't know.
And you have to remember and be able to sing the jingle that went, "Arizona's got an ocean".
That is such a land yacht that it has a helm instead of a steering wheel.
All these points are very true. I myself paid a visit to the infamous Lumberyard years ago and marveled at the location of the transmitter right next to an apartment complex. I often wondered if the people living in the apartment complex could hear all those golden oldies like “Kookie Kookie Lend Me Your Comb” playing in their kitchen on the metal appliances!
...Or via the amalgam fillings in their teeth?
Just when you thought "A Day In the Life of a Lamptimer" was dead and buried, somehow it resurfaces on this thread. Like Los Buckeye Boyz, it is a complete waste of time and bandwidth. But what the heck...it sure beats wondering if it's raining where you are and the whereabouts of JJ, zeee King of Beepers.
Well, the thread title does have the word 'resetting', does it not?
I ride by the lamptimer several times a week. Strange things are sighted there. I saw Rita Davenport and Stu Tracy there getting jiggy with his giant toothbrush.
Or, maybe I was just high...
Or, maybe I was just high...
This time of the year we pay closer attention to the Dewey (Hopper) point and are on the lookout for summertime (Liz) Habibs blowin' across I-10. Remember - when it comes to Lumberyard advice from Nurse Jeff and me, two seconds is too long.
Habibs are artificial constructs, created by the Lumberyard to naturally "sand" the fresh-cut lumber to a nice smooth surface (not to be confused with smooth jazz, which is beyond its expiration date).
Just remember that Zappe rhymes with Happy!
A "Lamp Timer" used at 1350 KTIK used to change pattern.
Worked really good too until the Burk Autopilot took over.
Worked really good too until the Burk Autopilot took over.
Or, as my dad told the unfortunate operator at Channel 12, Zappe also rhymes with crappy. Yeah, he called the station to complain. Zappe was no Dewey, or even Frank Peddie, but he wasn't all that bad.
Not the first time he complained about someone he didn't like on the air. He also called WLWI Indianapolis about David Letterman when we lived in that market. Obviously Dave was devastated and it really affected his career.
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