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Davy Jones

Well good for WKLU... Having a former “Monkey” appear outside the sponsor’s service area [‘KLU has a fine class A signal, BTW – but it doesn’t travel to Anderson well ‘cause of the adjacent-channel issue].

Russ should have known better... BTW, his demure signal makes-it to the western Wayne County line on 1-70. OUTSTANDING! He occasionally fights WKRQ in my boyhood home of Connersville... Good for you Russ! I like an underdog!

BTW, Bob-on-the-job, do you have a BE at the top of third street hill in C’ville... It sounds AWESOME... I have a handmade Meduci wideband AM tuner... 1580 WIFE sounds like FM with ZERO distortion... I’m prepared to announce that it sounds better than the legendary Lupus audio at “Super ‘CFL”... REALLY. Bob... GREAT JOB!
 
Yep, it's a BE AM500A loafin' along at 250 watts. Makes one wonder what James Loupas could have done with these tools on a music based AM. In WIFE's case, I had the luxury of setting up the automation and processor on my home workbench & listening to it for hours a day through a Pioneer amp with the treble all the way down, tweaking it to perfection ovre a 2 week period. Once it hit the air, only very subtle changes were needed. What you're hearing from your wideband tuner probably approximates what's coming out of the air monitor. There was a time that small amounts of distortion were necessary evils...thankfully, those days are in the past--even on AM. Everyone from Frank Foti to David Rodgers to Jerri Pruet had a hand in this success story. They all deserve equal or greater credit to what was my part in this masterpiece. Hopefully it'll make money now!
 
I’m sure you had done NO LESS, Bob... Nonetheless, that BE “loafing along” is THE BEST-sounding rig I have heard in my “history”... CONGRATS, Bob – GOOD JOB, sir! Keep the faith!
 
BTW, I hope WIFE makes some money... They have earned that right!
 
I met Bob-on-the-job for the first time in 1976 at Allied Radio in Richmond. IN – he was buying components for his “pirate” AM station [which he got busted for] :eek: Later in the mid-80s, he guided me thru a tour of the new Emmis facility [WENS] he built at the Landmark Center in Indy. He had grown to corporate status, but was still a regular guy, andchose to retire from that. I remember him telling me that he processed and recorded cassettes for his car listening thru a DBX-160 compressor back in the 80s... 'Sounded strange but understandable.

Bob has engineered one of the BEST sounding stations on the AM band, and a last ditch effort in local radio to boot. He has afforded them audio quality and a decent signal that has surpassed the legendary and max for its class. In an age of declining AM radio, he joined with an effort to revive it... and PRODUCED RESULTS. ‘Good for you my old friend!
 
I just woke up, turned-on the homemade Meducii AM tuner posed in my boyhood bedroom. It sounds like FM at FIVE-WATTS at four miles... GOOD FOR YOU, BOB! The Doors are playing as I type this post... “Light My Fire” – the long version in awesome AM quality even... Congrats Bob... GREAT EFFORT!
 
I sorta’ like good ole-fashioned 10kHz “superhet” messing with my music... That adjacent-channel “whine” that accompanies a weakened HI-FIDELITY AM signal. I haven’t heard it in two decades – and you WON’T on your favorite AM radio on the shelf at WalMart, you need to buy a handmade MeduciAMX-2000 to enjoy that simple pleasure, and great AM audio to boot! Can you appreciate the physics? ‘Hope so!

I remember my carefully–nurtured Harris MW-1 and later a Gates-1 – Early solid-state AM rigs... Despite my attention, there was some distortion... The BE box at Bob's station has little, if any ... It sounds AWESOME. I guess AM technology has leaped forward as the band consequently declines... SAD!
 
Curious ... tune your Meduci to 1070 WFNI or 700 WLW and give us a review of how they sound.
 
PT, "The Big One" WLW and the former "Radio Indiana" WFNI sound like CRAP – audio on an extreme diet, less calories and less kilohertz thanks to defective and destructive IBOC. Do they emply a shortwave proc? Oh the 4k glory ::)

I can remember when they both sounded excellent [without a Meduci] – NO LONGER!
 
...7A...What number is this Jim? SEVEN AEY!!! OK, I mean...Don't get excited, man! Izz-cause I'm Short, I know..... ;D
 
He’ll say “HI” to the 500 fifty-somethings in attendance (of which I am a near-member), sing “Last Train To Clarkesville”, shake hands with Russ and depart for his next lounge appearance. That’s the life of a guy who was Marsha’s dream date in 1969.
 
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