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A day in the life of a lamptimer
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musiconradio.com said:
Roger, Rodger.
Nurse Jeff and I were cruising in the Gremlin last night and drove by the Mesa Cemetery shortly after sunset. Perhaps we were distracted by the number of Compramos Oro signs on the light poles, but we didn't notice any flashing lights on KIHP's towers. Have they saved money by shutting them off as Lumberyard 14~Forty did recently? An Ancient Modulation station without tower lights is like an Ancient Modulation station without static and skywave interference. Looks like the Nurse and I picked the wrong week to quit watching movies about gladiators!
xmusicmatt said:KOOL Listener Lauren said:
NoGlad to see your still around :O)
Thanks!
But I can also be found at the Buckeye Media Hut instructing classes; good news: A Day In the Life of a Lamptimer is now a required textbook!
KOOL Listener Lauren said:Thanks!
But I can also be found at the Buckeye Media Hut instructing classes; good news: A Day In the Life of a Lamptimer is now a required textbook!
Agreed! -- This thread is way more educational than the "Will it be country?" threads over in the NYC msg board about 94.7. Long live the Lamptimer!
KimandDon are leaving Lumberyard 14~Forty. YIKES! Double YIKES! The hosts of Culinary Confessions will be headed to Florida and new hosts will take over sometime in February or March. These two comestable chatterers have hosted the talk show on KAZG ever since KXAM 13~Ten went off the air in 2009. Rumor has it that the underpaid, but overfed Goldminers will soon be tightening their belts!
Dr. Akbar said:The lamptimer portion is only 19 pages. It's the damned foreward by the Old Gringo that puts the textbook over 1,000 pages
(BUMP! Moving this thread to its rightful first-page position)
Dr. Akbar, as of this writing, the aforementioned Old Gringo is closing on 25,000 posts. What's your excuse?
NoMoreLurking said:Dr. Akbar said:The lamptimer portion is only 19 pages. It's the damned foreward by the Old Gringo that puts the textbook over 1,000 pages
(BUMP! Moving this thread to its rightful first-page position)
Dr. Akbar, as of this writing, the aforementioned Old Gringo is closing on 25,000 posts. What's your excuse?
He's retired up in Prescott and aside from chasing kids off his front lawn, Radio Discussions is his life
Speaking of Lumberyard 14~Forty...how come "Summer Breeze" by Seals & Croft (1972) is in their rotation of Fifties and Sixties worn out oldies? Must be a fav of Mrs Gumpdusky, along with "That's Life" by Frank Sinatra. Both songs really don't pass the Goldminer's test, but that Hammond B 3 at the beginning of the Chairman of the Board's song is definitely kick-ass!
Thanks for axing the question, NML...now the Nurse and I have to post on the el Lay board as we try to catch up with the Old Gringo!
Happy Valentine's Day, everybody! I will venture to guess that Mrs. Gumpdusky is VERY satisfied with the dosage of Frank Sinatra in the 14-in-a-row Goldmine. Things are awfully quiet here at the Buckeye Media Hut, which can actually be scary, so I'm finishing up grading these papers and gettin' outta here.
Thanks, KLL! Until your post I had feared that Radio-Info Radio Discussions had capped our mega-thread at 125 pages, no matter what. Yours makes it 126! (although we've seen this 126 zenith before, only to have it return to a modest 125 later! Time will tell....)
While getting things ready for our 18th annual Going Out of Business sale at the Hut, Nurse Jeff and I stumbled across some interesting news that could have a big impact on Lumberyard 14~Forty. Seems the new owners of Paddock Pools will be moving out of their multi-acre H.Q. on Thomas Road, just east of the Tower of Pow-Pow-Power. This amount of dirt would be perfect for a large nighttime array of towers that would allow the Goldminers to transmit more than 52 watts of worn out oldies! Imagine driving down Thomas and seeing four, six, eight or ten towers with flashing red lights at night! And imagine how happy Mrs Gumpdusky will be when she can listen to Frank Sinatra sing about doing it his way without a lot of skywave interference! The Nurse is on the fez-phone to catfish (lower case c) to make sure he doesn't miss this golden oldie opportunity as we dream of 5kw day and night for Lumberyard 14~Forty
If anyone can find the old Rodeo Drive-in Theater Cowboy sign, it could be hooked up to a ground systm and make a fine AM tower! (For you young 'uns out there, there used to be a thing called a drive-in theater where you would drive your car in, and pretend to watch a movie with your main squeeze. The Rodeo was located almost adjacent to the Lumberyard and Paddock Pools back in the day. It had a HUGE sign shaped like a cowboy. Try puttin' THAT on Netflix!) Old guy rant is over......
Dr. Akbar said:While getting things ready for our 18th annual Going Out of Business sale at the Hut, Nurse Jeff and I stumbled across some interesting news that could have a big impact on Lumberyard 14~Forty. Seems the new owners of Paddock Pools will be moving out of their multi-acre H.Q. on Thomas Road, just east of the Tower of Pow-Pow-Power. This amount of dirt would be perfect for a large nighttime array of towers that would allow the Goldminers to transmit more than 52 watts of worn out oldies! Imagine driving down Thomas and seeing four, six, eight or ten towers with flashing red lights at night! And imagine how happy Mrs Gumpdusky will be when she can listen to Frank Sinatra sing about doing it his way without a lot of skywave interference! The Nurse is on the fez-phone to catfish (lower case c) to make sure he doesn't miss this golden oldie opportunity as we dream of 5kw day and night for Lumberyard 14~Forty
Doc, all that steel could make some real HAARP-like POW-POW-POWER!! Even as a lowly class D, the Gumpduskys can qualify for up to 50 KW days, as long as it's mostly audible on Jupiter. Alas, with a 250 W class D night limit, the engineering department would have to channel the late Elliot Klein's 1580 egg charts to upgrade to class B and finally lick the giant skywaves!
buster2 said:
You mean this one? http://www.drive-ins.com/pictures/aztroun002.jpg All we'd have to do is change the Round Up lettering with Lumberyard 14~Forty And that cowboy looks like he's wearing a size 52 gallon Stetson. The Nurse and I like your thinking!
ironbear said:
There may be enough land there to do it! We'll have catfish (lower case C) study the McLendon manual for 12 tower highly directional arrays: http://www.radiolists.net/pipermail/broadcast/2007-October/008319.html And to think all of this began with a dorky lamptimer!
Dr. Akbar said:He's retired up in Prescott and aside from chasing kids off his front lawn, Radio Discussions is his life
I sometimes wish I were retired.
My front lawn is a bluff. The only "kids" who could play there are goats.
I have a job that prevents me spending all my time here.
Insert one of these after each of the above statements: ;D
:-\I was at the lumberyard yesterday! While waiting for my car repair, I was able to peek inside the mystery building, little flashing lights...where the magic is made....
buster2 said:
Oddly enough...I was listening to a BBC program a few months ago, it was done by Bart Bull, who used to be a New Times writer. He and some friends stole the cowboy and did the hilarious ransom notes asking for KPHO to start showing Leave it to Beaver reruns. It all got too hairy as the cops were on it..he put the cowboy back and was never caught.
you can listen to it here"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00q875p
Neon Cowboy
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Saturday 31 March 2012
Writer Bart Bull explores the extraordinary story of the Neon Cowboy.
With the Iran hostage crisis in full flow in the early 1980s, Bart Bull was drawn into a hostage situation of an entirely different breed.
"Phoenix and Scottsdale used to be really remarkable places and the Round Up Drive-In was right at the dividing line between the two.
"It was desert there still, and when you saw this huge looming grinning Neon Cowboy, with his blue jeans and yellow and red checked shirt and black boots, and huge white hat - all outlined in blue and yellow and red and pink neon - well, you knew where you were.
"In the 1970s the so-called Gas Crisis was to affect American car culture and so the Drive-Ins began to disappear.
"At the very height of all this, I was asleep in front of the TV at my former girlfriend's parents' house - there on the border of Scottsdale and Phoenix - and even more importantly, I had a Chevy pickup truck.
"So my ex-girlfriend's mom Carol, shook me awake and explained that they had cut the Round Up Drive-In cowboy into pieces, and we were about to go steal his head. And, of course, his hat. Which, we did.
"We became the NCLF - the Neon Cowboy Liberation Front. The new owner of the Round Up Drive-In had no sense of humour, and he contacted the police - who laughed - basically, and then the FBI, who announced their involvement in the investigation to the press and it was off to the races..."
For Bart, this odd little event became something of significance, a symbol of the eradication of individuality, of the onslaught of monoculture.
And in this programme he tells the story of the cowboy against the backdrop of Birmingham, a British city that has suffered a similar fate to that of Phoenix, in that its cultural and industrial connections have been severed over the last 50 years, just as its heart has been ripped out to make way for motorways and ringroads.
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