A day in the life of a lamptimer

[DrAkbar]

On a side note, what ever happened to the winter use of the PSRA? I haven't noticed it yet the past couple months like we've seen in years past. Perhaps the gang at KAZG is waiting for the approval of the new Nautel Transmitter! ;D

Perhaps it has something to do with the loss of "The Positive Side of Sports" from KAZG's revenue stream ??? While the website still shows it's on every weekday at 7am, Los Buckeye Boyz know it's been MIA for several months now. An hour of worn out oldies before a Sports Parkinglot show is just what the Doctor (and Nurse) ordered!

But the most important questions remains: why is a new xmttr on the shopping list if there are no plans to use the nighttime power of 52 watts?

 

[DrAkbar]

Tuned in this morning around 6:10 A.M. and heard nothing on 1440 except for some static from Funny 1440 out of Riverside, CA. Turned the radio back to 1440 around 6:25 A.M. and boom, there was an ad for the KAZG website leading into "Sealed with a Kiss." What's interesting, though, is that it appears to be the full 5000 watts of pow-pow-power coming from the Lumberyard shack out in Scottsdale and not the PSRA of 500 watts or whatever KAZG has used in years past during the winter months. Now monthly sunrise for November is 7:00 A.M. so KAZG has some "splainin' to do!" with this early power up!

Paging the usual suspects: Catfish with a "C", KOOL Lauren, the almighty Doc of Buckeye and Oldiesfan with an "O"!

Obviously they haven't reset the infamous lamptimer for the month of November. 6:30a was local sunrise in October, now it's 7am. So no PRSA, just the full 5kw from the banks of the Crosscut canal. Guess Gumpdusky has turned over their lamptimer programming responsibilities to KFuNN as both stations still don't have it right.

btw...is Riverside's 14~Forty still doing All Comedy? The Nurse and I sure miss Gary Coleman's lame jokes

 

[oldiesfan6479]

At 6:20 this morning I did hear good ol' good ones being pumped out of the Lumberyard,
and the signal seemed to be stronger than the PSRA, or 52 watts--which of course catfish
(with a "c") says they can't do with the old Ampliphase Gates Five--so let's just say
stronger than the PSRA.

At the same time, the KayFuNNsters were not audible, so we can assume they were still
"booming out" on only 100 watts.

 

[EricStein]

On a side note, what ever happened to the winter use of the PSRA? I haven't noticed it yet the past couple months like we've seen in years past. Perhaps the gang at KAZG is waiting for the approval of the new Nautel Transmitter! ;D

They may have reallocated the engineering budget to scrape the rust off of KUPD's aging tower and antenna system. They're supposed to be 100kW, aren't they? They've been having a harder time trying to get their signal to penetrate the thick walls of Discount Tire garages across the Valley!

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

Perhaps it has something to do with the loss of "The Positive Side of Sports" from KAZG's revenue stream ??? While the website still shows it's on every weekday at 7am, Los Buckeye Boyz know it's been MIA for several months now.

A bit off topic, but you brought it up - that show's Amanda Jahn took a TV weather gig here in Northeast Ohio (WJW "Fox 8"), but left almost as soon as she arrived.

Is she back in Arizona?

 

[Lou_S]

Good grief, Catfish. 500 watts into a dummy load with a voltage tap at the proper point (say, 1/10th or so from the bottom - trial and error while watching the antenna current meter should do it) will give you that booming 52 watts into the antenna.

Cannibalize some nichrome wire from a room heater, grab a 480 volt AC relay to select full power or through the divider, mount the parts on a piece of plywood and you're good to go.

 

[DrAkbar]

A bit off topic, but you brought it up - that show's Amanda Jahn took a TV weather gig here in Northeast Ohio (WJW "Fox 8"), but left almost as soon as she arrived.

Is she back in Arizona?

Both A.J. and the Positive Side of Sports are MIA from Lumberyard 14~Forty. Dunno the whereabouts of A.J. since her brief stint in Cleveland. Nurse Jeff and I've emailed the KAZG webmaster to remove the PSOS from the website, but nothings changed. Our hunch is their Goldminers are lobbying Mrs Gumpdusky to upgrade the POS xmttr at the gold mine.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

This morning at 6:19, the Lumberyard was again on at what seemed to be
full daytime power (which shouldn't start until 7 AM in November).

Either that, or it was a very good PSRA (500 watts?) signal--better than in
the past.

 

[DrAkbar]

This morning at 6:19, the Lumberyard was again on at what seemed to be
full daytime power (which shouldn't start until 7 AM in November).

Either that, or it was a very good PSRA (500 watts?) signal--better than in
the past.

Could have been the cloud cover wiping out skywave interference and the rain improving the non-existent (per catfish with a "c") ground system. But is it possible for the lamptimer to drift a full 19 minutes before calling the PSRA goldminers to work?

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Yo, Doc...clarification:

I didn't mean that KAZG popped on at 6:19 AM today. I don't know when they did,
although I'd guess 6 AM LST*...I just happened to tune in around 6:18-6:19 and
they were on the air.

*: LST = Lamptimer Standard Time

 

[asugeorge1]

Yo, Doc...clarification:

I didn't mean that KAZG popped on at 6:19 AM today. I don't know when they did,
although I'd guess 6 AM LST*...I just happened to tune in around 6:18-6:19 and
they were on the air.

*: LST = Lamptimer Standard Time

Even more interesting is that over the weekend on Saturday, KAZG played by the rules and didn't pop-on until sometime around normal sunrise time for November: 7:00 A.M. I checked off and on from 6:15 A.M till about 6:45 A.M. Saturday morning and there was nothing but the faint sound of that mystery classical station on the 1440 dial. So I guess whatever KAZG is doing (PSRA or full power 5000 watts), this is just a weekday thing.

Notice how none of the usual Sandusky suspects have commented on our catch of KAZG's rather "unusual" morning activity? Must be some top-secret stuff! ;D

 

[DrAkbar]

Notice how none of the usual Sandusky suspects have commented on our catch of KAZG's rather "unusual" morning activity? Must be some top-secret stuff! ;D

Without The Positive Side of Sports in AMD, Mrs Gumpdusky is saving about $37.50 a day by not using the PSRA between 6a and 7am. Plus the Goldminers get an extra hour of sleep!

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Now this morning--it was around 6:20-6:25--the Lumberyard was on with its
PSRA (or 52 watts*? ;D). The signal was definitely marginal--not five gallons.

*: Yeah I know, catfish (with a "c"), they can't get the old rig down to 52 watts!

 

[DrAkbar]

Notice how none of the usual Sandusky suspects have commented on our catch of KAZG's rather "unusual" morning activity? Must be some top-secret stuff! ;D

Yes indeedy! The ol catfish (with a lower case c) has been laying low in the canal next to Lumberyard 14~Forty. And KOOL KAZG Listener Lauren still hasn't 'splained to us why a new xmttr can't be used for nighttime broadcasts. hmmmmm.....the Nurse and I'd sure like to be flies on the wall when the Gumpdusky Grand Poobahs review the capital request for a new Nautel xmttr for the Goldmine. There's something rather Kookie going on here!

 

[catfish]

ain't nothing kookie at all happening.. capital is next year.. new nautel can run at 52 watts no problem and it will be plugged into the internet as your computer is (internet time,time-nw.nist.gov) to do all those 3 huge power changes pre programmed by nautel in the inboard server to do those power changes to the second... no there's not much of a ground system but it will still work.. :-X I think the grill needs to be fired up and let's have a tofu cookout with red bull shots to keep us up as the construction starts...

 

[catfish]

oh and if you see me in my blue chevy 76 vega parked down by the westward ho, throw me a dollar, it's getting cold out and the malt liquor goes down so smooth now that the temps are dropping

 

[xmusicmatt]

ain't nothing kookie at all happening.. capital is next year.. new nautel can run at 52 watts no problem and it will be plugged into the internet as your computer is (internet time,time-nw.nist.gov) to do all those 3 huge power changes pre programmed by nautel in the inboard server to do those power changes to the second... no there's not much of a ground system but it will still work.. :-X I think the grill needs to be fired up and let's have a tofu cookout with red bull shots to keep us up as the construction starts...

GASP.. What will happen to this thread when they finally "retire" the old faithful "Lamptimer"

 

[DrAkbar]

GASP.. What will happen to this thread when they finally "retire" the old faithful "Lamptimer"

YIKES! Double YIKES! What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports will Nurse Jeff and I have to do if Gumpdusky retires the lamptimer? Guess we could hang with catfish (with a lower case "c") and hoist a few Red Bulls while debating the age old question: Was the Vega GM's answer to the Gremlin?

 

[xmusicmatt]

GASP.. What will happen to this thread when they finally "retire" the old faithful "Lamptimer"

YIKES! Double YIKES! What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports will Nurse Jeff and I have to do if Gumpdusky retires the lamptimer? Guess we could hang with catfish (with a lower case "c") and hoist a few Red Bulls while debating the age old question: Was the Vega GM's answer to the Gremlin?

I also wonder if the world is READY for 52 watts of "Kookie" all night long!

 

[The_X_Man_Cometh]

GASP.. What will happen to this thread when they finally "retire" the old faithful "Lamptimer"

YIKES! Double YIKES! What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports will Nurse Jeff and I have to do if Gumpdusky retires the lamptimer? Guess we could hang with catfish (with a lower case "c") and hoist a few Red Bulls while debating the age old question: Was the Vega GM's answer to the Gremlin?

If the Chevrolet Vega was the answer....what in the world was the question?

Three decades ago, in dire need of wheels, I bought a '75 Chevy Vega and the previous owner, apparantly out of pity, threw in another '75 Vega as a 'parts car.'

I bought license tags for them as "Las 1" (the working car) and "Las 2" (the parts car).

My neighbor spent about a month trying to figure out the significance, and finally came by with a beer to congratulate me on my aquisition of said "Las Vegas."