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Is there a KVOX 1280 AM?

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Charlie Heinz

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Wondering if there still is a KVOX 1280 AM? Worked there waaay back 1963 as night DJ/CE. Was a winter of a huge storm that took out the modulation xfmr. Went to standby tranny. Drove to Mpls for a new mod xfmr. Wild and crazy winter with power dropping off and on, which hurt the tranny. Had a remote line to Comsock Hotel in downtown Moorhead. When I started was just a POTS line! No kidding. Manglement wouldn't pay for an phono co EQ'd line so my then girlfriend, now wife, fed me tones from the Comstock when we were off the air and I EQ'd the line at the main studio. It IS possible to get a fairly decent sound out of a POTS line. Have to boost the bass and boost the midrange waaaay up. Sort of like hearing aids EQ in the mid. :)

After that winter of our discontent, we headed to Mpls. Still here after all these years.
 
Yes there still is a 1280. It changed call letters to KVXR in 2007 when a new station at 740 became KVOX. The 1280 is owned by a Catholic group. I worked with a lot of old equipment in the early 1960's but I can not imagine what music sounded like on a POTS line.
 
Fargo/Moorhead was a great market. I believe Jack Grant (Grant Krump) worked KVOX years back. And how about the Q in Fargo? Anyone remember the old K-Fire guys like Tom Turcotte, Bob Bitz, Dan Brannon, etc. How about Davey Bee and Terry Dean up in Minot? Those were the days.
 
Re: Is there a KVOX 1280 AM? Not much interest apparently

Apparently there is little interest in the old days back when "radio was radio!"
 
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