Hi-Fi Club featuring last part of KXOL JFK tapes Sunday night

[MikeShannon914]

As promised, The Hi-Fi Club will play Part 2 of the lost JFK assassination tapes from KXOL this Sunday night (2/17) from 6-7PM on KMNY-1360AM and on www.thehificlub.net. The show is prerecorded this week (which will likely be the new norm) and will get a format-tweaking starting next week. We're also looking again at a couple of additional local stations to carry the show. Updates will be posted on the website. Also coming soon...PODCASTS! Stay tuned.

 

[FLQueen]

When will it be available online? I don't live in DFW anymore.

 

[easttxtv]

Thanx for the podcast possibility, Mike...I'm asleep when you're show's on so I always end up missing it.

 

[ropertex]

Was driving on west loop 820 while listening and just at sunset it was GONE

 

[MikeShannon914]

Yeah, the 1360 signal's nearly non-existent starting at 6:15PM (at least during February.) Not sure what the power-down time will be for March, but any extension would help! I believe the tower's in the Hurst area these days.

Soon as I can get some more webspace, I'll put that show and the others online. I've already begun dubbing everything into .mp3 format from (ugh) cassettes. I'll get the 2008 shows up first, then will go back and dub the 2006 ones as time allows.

Frank, you still tracking the old UHF channels? Carroll Maxwell wants to meet me for lunch sometime to talk about the old KMEC. Maybe you could tag along if you want?

 

[jd]

Yeah, the 1360 signal's nearly non-existent starting at 6:15PM (at least during February.) Not sure what the power-down time will be for March, but any extension would help!

Mike, it's 6:30 in March, 7:00 in April (til DST kicks in, then it's 8:00).

I believe the tower's in the Hurst area these days.

Their towers are in Grand Prairie, a little east of KKDA, north of I-30. The nighttime pattern is basically WNW (toward Hurst, the COL) and ESE, but the 890-watt coverage area shown on Radio-Locator is [unfortunately] greatly exaggerated.

 

[Huey long]

Macarthur and I-30

 

[Chuck]

Frank, you still tracking the old UHF channels? Carroll Maxwell wants to meet me for lunch sometime to talk about the old KMEC. Maybe you could tag along if you want?

Wow. Is Carroll Maxwell still around? I hope he is doing well. I worked for him and his brother Jim, at KMEC from well before the station signed on until a couple of weeks before the "bitter end." I pulled lots of wires in that building, and was the projectionist and VTR operator on its first day on the air. We ran "Sate Fair" as the first feature film. I eventually became Master Control Switcher and directed (such that it was) some of the "very" local shows that ran live on the station. I even did the weather one evening. I was terrible.

It was quite an experience for an ambitious college student, and a lot of fun, occasionally punctuated with some moments filled with terror. I would love hear from Carroll or anyone who was associated with KMEC. Email me off list at "kzqxfm at aol.com". I'd be happy to drive to Dallas for such a reunion.