A day in the life of a lamptimer

[landtuna]

Yeah KLL. The venerable Goldmine seems to be getting the lions share of board press these days. Even considering the constant static re: TMISU.

 

[DrAkbar]

Nurse Jeff set our alarm clock for 0530 hours Sunday so we could listen to Lumberyard 14~Forty at reduced or no pow-pow-power at all. Much to the surprise of our miniscule minds, the Goldminers were extracting one worn out oldie after another along with jingles and sweepers! Then exactly at 6am, a non-jingle legal ID followed by a Gumpdusky Public Affairs program. A minute or two later power was raised to 5kw with no snap, pop or crackle. Given it was Easter Sunday, truly a most glorious miracle for the Valley's last daytimer and its followers!

 

[asugeorge1]

Well, it looks like the good times are over. There is no overnight 1440 for Easter Sunday. :'(

It started out just like yesterday with the day-time transmitter cutting out around 7:03 P.M. Then, for the next five minutes, there was nothing but static until the night-time 52 watt transmitter turned back on at 7:08 P.M. Things were looking pretty rosy until 7:17 P.M. when the Lumberyard powered off yet again right in the middle of the Righteous Brothers. At this very moment, 1440 remains quiet.

That leaves me to wonder, is this is the last of overnight 1440? Will it return next Friday and Saturday night? Or was Sandusky just testing out the night-time transmitter for future use? Curious Lumberyard and oldies fans want to know! ???

 

[KOOL Listener Lauren]

Your dream-come-true has finally come true, but you ruined it with all the commotion. Had you been hush-hush about it, they would have never known of the Lumberyard's rebellious and misbehaving actions, and you could have been listening to those worn out oldies and 14+ songs in a row all night long! :-X

But in all seriousness: Don't count anything out. People DO give a damn about KAZG. Uhh, that's all I'm going to say.

 

[DrAkbar]

But in all seriousness: Don't count anything out. People DO give a damn about KAZG. Uhh, that's all I'm going to say.

You're darn right KOOL Listener Hearer Lauren...with almost 20,000 hits on this lame topic, someone cares ;D

 

[asugeorge1]

Your dream-come-true has finally come true, but you ruined it with all the commotion. Had you been hush-hush about it, they would have never known of the Lumberyard's rebellious and misbehaving actions, and you could have been listening to those worn out oldies and 14+ songs in a row all night long! :-X

But in all seriousness: Don't count anything out. People DO give a damn about KAZG. Uhh, that's all I'm going to say.

Sorry! :-[ I should have kept my mouth shut about it and allowed the good times roll. Hopefully this was just a precursor of better things to come. If it means we only have all-night oldies on the weekends, I'll be happy with that. Anything is better than nothing!

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Silent Sam apparently had the overnight shift Sunday night into
Monday morning. The usual lamptimer drift put carrier on with
5 kw at 6:02:50 this morning. No ID until the music automation
triggered a TOH ID at 6:03:44.

So far this evening there has been no return to the air* at the
Lumberyard, following carrier dump at 7:02:54 PM. The last ID
was the TOH at 7:01:30.


*: As of 7:18:00 PM.

 

[DrAkbar]

So far this evening there has been no return to the air* at the
Lumberyard, following carrier dump at 7:02:54 PM. The last ID
was the TOH at 7:01:30.

....and how appropriate The Same Old Song by the 4 Tops was carrier dumped by the drifting lamptimer!

 

[asugeorge1]

Now that it has been a full week since the tease of night-time oldies on the Lumberyard, I wonder what that experiment was all about. Now that we know for a fact that the night-time transmitter works, what's holding Sandusky back? The cost of running the station at night? ???

Also, as a side note, while searching through the FCC database on our beloved Lumberyard, I found it interesting that Canada originally objected to the granting of a license to 1440 AM. This was later cleared up, but I wonder why Canada, and not our friends to the south, objected to the licensing of KAZG. Very curious.

You can find that little tidbit of information here: http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?state=AZ&call=KAZG&arn=&city=Scottsdale&freq=530&fre2=1700&type=0&facid=&class=&list=0&dist=&dlat2=&mlat2=&slat2=&NS=N&dlon2=&mlon2=&slon2=&EW=W&size=9

 

[DrAkbar]

Also, as a side note, while searching through the FCC database on our beloved Lumberyard, I found it interesting that Canada originally objected to the granting of a license to 1440 AM. This was later cleared up, but I wonder why Canada, and not our friends to the south, objected to the licensing of KAZG. Very curious.

....because Lumberyard 14~Forty doesn't play Wreck Of The Ella Fitzgerald by native son Gordon Lightfoot? Now the Goldminers give their due to MehHeeCo by protecting XEFCD in Camargo, Chihuahua during pre-sunrise hours.

But the Nurse and I are with ya, ASUjorgeUno....when will we get to hear more worn out oldies at night from KAZG?

 

[landtuna]

Now the Goldminers give their due to MehHeeCo by protecting XEFCD in Camargo, Chihuahua during pre-sunrise hours.

What!?!?!?!

I can't receive the Goldmine's 52 watts of pow pow power in S. Tempe and they need to protect a Mexican station hundreds of miles away? That pre-dawn skip must be muy primo!

Or maybe you meant they need to protect El Jefe after they toss more coal on the fire??? ???

 

[oldiesfan6479]

....because Lumberyard 14~Forty doesn't play Wreck Of The Ella Fitzgerald by native son Gordon Lightfoot?

I read that line three times before I burst out laughing.

Now I'm stuck in an auto replay of The Best of the Dean Martin Show
from Guthy-Renker, hosted by Reege, featuring footage of a duet by
Dino and Ella using a grainy old RCA TK-41 camera.

Edmund was a late scratch--he was plying the waters of Lake Superior
at the time.

But what I did find is that the ship was on the U.S. registry. Did the CRTC
allow full CanCon credit for airplay? ???

 

[DrAkbar]

But what I did find is that the ship was on the U.S. registry. Did the CRTC
allow full CanCon credit for airplay? ???

Due to the ship's close proximity to Windsor, which enjoyed relaxed CanCon regs thanks to it's Motown neighbor, that 70's classic indeed racked up considerable CanCredits at the Big 8, CKLW. All of this begs the question: Isn't Lumberyard 14~Forty the Valley's most green station because they don't use electricity at night?

 

[boiseengineer]

Isn't Lumberyard 14~Forty the Valley's most green station because they don't use electricity at night?

Went checking to see if they had tower lights on at night to qualify Green (including the porch light) and found something interesting! Looks like the same tower's got two different Antenna Structure Registration Numbers. One from Cactus Radio & the other from T-Mobile! There aren't 2 diff towers there. One constructed in 1956 (Cactus) and another in 1998 (T-Mobile)???

 

[oldiesfan6479]

There aren't 2 diff towers there. One constructed in 1956 (Cactus) and another in 1998 (T-Mobile)???

The cell site gear is piggybacked on the AM tower. "Cactus Radio" gets some
$$$$ by leasing the space on it.

Sure wish they would use some of those bucks to buy a new lamptimer --
tonight's carrier dump (usual M.O.) was at 7:04:45 PM.

 

[asugeorge1]

There aren't 2 diff towers there. One constructed in 1956 (Cactus) and another in 1998 (T-Mobile)???

The cell site gear is piggybacked on the AM tower. "Cactus Radio" gets some
$$$$ by leasing the space on it.

Sure wish they would use some of those bucks to buy a new lamptimer --
tonight's carrier dump (usual M.O.) was at 7:04:45 PM.

I was listening at that time (hoping for some overnight Goldmine oldies) and the carrier dumped just as the Everly Brothers were starting to sing, "Bye Bye Love." Another great song lost to the drifting lamptimer. Sad. :'(

 

[DrAkbar]

Went checking to see if they had tower lights on at night to qualify Green (including the porch light) and found something interesting! Looks like the same tower's got two different Antenna Structure Registration Numbers. One from Cactus Radio & the other from T-Mobile! There aren't 2 diff towers there. One constructed in 1956 (Cactus) and another in 1998 (T-Mobile)???

1956?? That Tower of Pow-Pow-Power is gettin' a little long of tooth, eh? Guess the multiple layers of paint must be holding it together. Sure wouldn't want to read about those Goldminers being hurt by an erected structure dysfunction

 

[oldiesfan6479]

1956?? That Tower of Pow-Pow-Power is gettin' a little long of tooth, eh? Guess the multiple layers of paint must be holding it together. Sure wouldn't want to read about those Goldminers being hurt by an erected structure dysfunction

Not to worry--the Goldminers all work out of the "KAZG closet" in the K-Slacks
suite at the Londen Center. There will of course be on-site tech support out
at the Lumberyard from time to time, but I'm sure that includes eyeballing the
stick too.

Yet, every time I've made a clandestine drive-by at 64th Street & Thomas,
I've not seen anyone around. Even at sunset* on the last day of a month.
Maybe the lamptimer is remote-controlled from the closet.


*: There are three kinds of sunset--daily sunset (actual changing real time),
monthly sunset (fixed time for AM radio), and lamptimer sunset (whenever
it feels like it ).

 

[oldiesfan6479]

I was listening at that time (hoping for some overnight Goldmine oldies) and the carrier dumped just as the Everly Brothers were starting to sing, "Bye Bye Love." Another great song lost to the drifting lamptimer. Sad. :'(

The El Lay board has a post that mentions Lumberyard power rotation regular
Edd "Kookie" Byrnes:

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=166321.msg1428781#msg1428781

A KAZG-referenced reply might have been in order, until realizing that the only
person who would "get" it is Mr. Hagerty (along with any other PHX visitors to
the morning show El Lay board).

 

[DrAkbar]

*: There are three kinds of sunset--daily sunset (actual changing real time),
monthly sunset (fixed time for AM radio), and lamptimer sunset (whenever
it feels like it ).

Actually, there are four: the KFuNN sponsor sunset when a big bucks program necessitates running on 22kw instead of the licensed 100 watts. But that's another thread.

In addition to guessing when we'll have our first 100 day of the year, Nurse Jeff and I are sponsoring a "Guess when Lumberyard 14~Forty will be on at night again?" contest. The prize is a state of the art Wal-Mart Lamptimer imported all the way from China Heck, we might even throw in some tasty Humble pie compliments of the Luvable One!