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KAZG on the air at 6:20 a.m.!

And to wrap things up...

Lumberyard 1440 is no longer illegal, er, undocumented.

The "power got louder" this morning right at the specified time, 6:45.

We'll encourage Gumpdusky to keep a tight leash on that lamp timer.

Now, it's time to sign off, just like they do at the lumber......(static)......
 
oldiesfan6479 said:
We'll encourage Gumpdusky to keep a tight leash on that lamp timer.
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Like that's going to happen. To wit:

You'll recall the Wednesday sign off was logged at 18:30:35. By Friday it was
(power) up at 06:45:25, off at 18:30:18. Today, up at 06:45:15--and I switched
away from Dancin' Danny Babich on the Giant 580 for several minutes just to
monitor the Lumberyard ;) --and off at 18:30:10.

In three days the lamp timer has drifted from :35 slow (atomically speaking) to :10
slow. Mathematically, if uncorrected, it will again drift to x-number of minutes fast.

While the morning "power up" may be a moot point come April 1 since the monthly
"sunrise" for April is 06:00 and assuming KAZG will still sign on then and not earlier,
the drifting lamp timer's version of sign-on could be 05:50 within a few weeks. :eek:
 
As the lamp timer drifts...

Yesterday (March 31), Lumberyard 1440 came on with 52 watts in
the 0559 minute and powered up to 5000 watts in the 0644 minute.
I wasn't eyeballing an hh:mm:ss clock so I don't have the exact.
Nothing bad about this in itself...but wait, there's more!

This morning April 1 (new month, new on/off times 0600-1900) KAZG
came on at 0559:10. Again, not unreasonable to be a minute or two
early, especially if a station wants to do a full-blown sign-on, play the
anthem, and hit a network 'cast at the TOH. But we know that the
lumberyard lamp timer is in its usual drift mode and if not reset, could
again get to ten minutes early as it did last month. Bad timer! ;D

What I really found interesting was that at sign-on both days, the carrier
came on with a song in progress. No legal ID--not then and not through
the first five minutes or so. Just like in the evening when they simply
cut the carrier at (when the lamp timer thinks it's) sign-off time.

I thought sure there was an FCC rule that a station had to ID itself at
sign-on (wasn't too sure about sign-off), so I found good ol' Part 73:

Sec. 73.1201 Station identification.
(a) When regularly required. Broadcast station identification
announcements shall be made:
(1) At the beginning and ending of each time of operation, and
(2) Hourly, as close to the hour as feasible, at a natural break
in program offerings.

So KAZG appears to be in violation of the legal ID requirement at
both sign-on and sign-off, if I interpret 73.1201 correctly.
Not to mention they also didn't ID at the (0600) TOH. ;)
 
At the beginning and ending of each time of operation

Because Lumberyard 14~Forty is licensed for 24 hour service, they're really not ending their operation at sunset...just giving the xmttr a rest 'til the next day. So the million peso question the Nurse and I have...are ya turnin' in Gumpdusky??
 
Dr. Akbar said:
...are ya turnin' in Gumpdusky??
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Nah, I've got to figure someone at Gumpdusky reads this board.

Besides, the K-slacks website has a "contact us" page so I've sent a few comments
to their C.E. about the lamp timer, the (lack of) sign-on/sign-off ID, also about the
KSLX legal not having "-FM" in it and needing it--per the FCC site. BTW, same lack
of "-FM" is evident on the legal ID at Cheap Channel's KYOT-FM, but I can't find any
"contact us" info on the KYOT site.

I'd be more inclined to complain to Uncle Charlie if a station stayed on day power for
too long after the monthly power down time. Think of this as a gentle reminder to
KDUS ;) because they shouldn't be stepping all over KNX at night in the 'Tuke.
And in fairness, it's only happened a couple of times in the recent past--nothing like
the KFNX late-night power illegalities of a few years ago.
 
Sunday evening April 1:

KAZG signed off at 1859:02, the carrier was cut in in the middle of
The Wanderer by Dion. No legal ID.

Note that in 13 hours today the lamp timer has drifted another
eight seconds (fast).
 
Psst! Don't tell anyone, but sometime this (Sunday) evening
Lumberyard 1440 snuck back on the air. :eek:

I don't know exactly when they did, but I was going up the AM dial
about 8:30 and there they were, sounding like all of 52 watts.

It's now 9:17 and they're still on. Just music from the hard drive,
no liners, no jingles...oh, and no legal ID at or near 9:00. ::)
 
And I checked about 2 a.m., and they were still putting out a weak signal. I listened for about 20 minutes around the top of the hour, and no ID, no voice, just music.
 
The Nurse and I will be pointing our '76 Gremlin in the direction of the Lumberyard later tonight. We're curious as to what 52 watts sounds like over the hash of ranchera music heard on 14~Forty when the sun goes down. Guess they're testin' the tubes and gettin' ready to go 24/7. If that's the case, then those abrupt sign offs with no legal id will be nothin' more than a page out of Phoenix radio history!
 
KAZG was (still?) on about 0530 today (Monday) with those glorious
52 watts of pow-pow-pow-werrrrrr.

Geez, we gotta them some jingles cut from Pams series 34. ;D

And continuing with "as the lamp timer drifts" they muscled up to
daytime power at 0558:57...and actually did a legal ID :eek: within
the next minute or two.

If the Doc's speculation about spooling up to 24/7 is correct then we
ought to think about "cruising Thomas" on Friday or Saturday nights.
Start in Tower Plaza underneath the KT'R 620 sticks and head for the
Lumberyard, with everyone's radio blasting 1440 and the 52 big ones!

This just in (via the "modify" mode)--well ain't that peculiar...not!
KAZG pulled the plug Monday evening at 1858:52, in the middle of
Ain't That Peculiar by Marvin Gaye. Sans ID of course.

Time to check the tote board! The lamp timer has drifted five seconds
from this morning's power up and ten seconds from yesterday's carrier
cut--it's now running 1:08 fast from (the atomically correct time for)
April's 0600-1900 "daytime."
 
If the Doc's speculation about spooling up to 24/7 is correct then we
ought to think about "cruising Thomas" on Friday or Saturday nights.
Start in Tower Plaza underneath the KT'R 620 sticks and head for the
Lumberyard, with everyone's radio blasting 1440 and the 52 big ones!

Actually only one of the sticks is in the parking lot of Tower Plaza. You'll have to run the guantlet of illegals on 36th Street to make it into the apartment parking lot where the other tower is located. I've often wonder which stick is hot during the day when they're running non-directional. Haven't been able to talk Nurse Jeff into climbing the accessible tower with a flourescant bulb in his hand to judge the RF, though :eek:
 
I do! It's the closest thing, in fact the only station, that resembles the ma and pa, family owned operations of the 60's and 70's.

Fortunately, many of these still exist in the smallers towns of Arizona. But in the metro areas, we basically are victims of the corporate radio takeover.
 
Tuesday's vital stats from the lumberyard:

Sign-on at 0558:49 to daytime power. No legal ID. Carrier came up
with The Locomotion by Little Eva in progress. Notable that the
song had an extended ending/fade that I'd never heard on KOOL-FM.
TOH stager with legal ID was aired following Eva, approx. two minutes
after KAZG signed on.

Sign-off at 1858:45 with the usual M.O.--carrier cut during the Temps'
Beauty Is Only Skin Deep and no legal ID.

I have some good news (but no Geico joke) on the lamp timer situation
though--it's drifting a bit less. ::) It gained only :07 in the past 24 hours.
 
Redeeming Quality of Lumberyard Radio #8 - their oldies aren't out of phase like KOOL's! The processing aint too shabby for such a joke of a station either.
 
It was a "sounds of silence Wednesday" on Lumberyard 1440
this morning, and was that an "I can name that song in three
notes" contest at sign off?

Now the details...(teletype SFX up and under)...

KAZG's signal "blurped" on the air at 0558:41 with the daytime
five gallons. No legal ID--in fact, no nothing, just silent carrier
which continued through the 0600 quarter hour. Several spot
checks between 0615-0645 all had what I guess is their new
morning show--"Programa Silencio." Does anyone know when
they finally got the hard drive connected to the stick?

Sign off tonight crept juuuuuusst a bit earlier, to 1858:37, with
no legal ID per usual. (Can I work in "warning track, wall, touch
'em all" here? ;D Oops, wrong station.) They shut down the old
Ampliphase right at the beginning of a song. All you heard was
"When I became of a..." followed by the sound of AM static.
I wonder if they got a ninth caller? I don't think they even have
a boss line. BTW, that was Shop Around by The Miracles.
 
Confessions of Middle Eastern Men of the Media: Nurse Jeff and I have an aural fixation on Lumberyard 14~Forty. Gumpdusky has truly wasted this frequency with oldies; brokered programming; sports play by play; and their slam the door in your face sign offs. In spite of it all, we're fascinated by the idiosyncrasies heard on 14~Forty, whether they're running with 5k or .052k. Is there a rehab ranch out in Wickenburg we can check in to detox on loser AMs? Is it raining where the Lumberyard is? Do TMISU have a lock on programming train wrecks? And what the hell is Nova M radio anyway?
 
Quickly, while no one's looking...

Thursday April 5:
Sign-on 0558:33 at 5 kw, no legal ID, music JIP. Through 0610 still no ID.
Sign-off 1858:28, carrier cut mid-song, no legal ID.
 
Dr. Akbar said:
Confessions of Middle Eastern Men of the Media: Nurse Jeff and I have an aural fixation on Lumberyard 14~Forty. Gumpdusky has truly wasted this frequency with oldies; brokered programming; sports play by play; and their slam the door in your face sign offs. In spite of it all, we're fascinated by the idiosyncrasies heard on 14~Forty, whether they're running with 5k or .052k.
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Since when has this station mattered one whit? They've been on the air since the late '50s or early '60s and they've either been a daytime-only simulcast of 100.7 or a dumping ground for whatever Gumpdusky feels like putting there (CNN Headline News 10 years ago, oldies & Air America Lite today). Bring back KPOK! ;D

Is there a rehab ranch out in Wickenburg we can check in to detox on loser AMs?
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Nope. They have their own flea-powered signal on 1250, although it looks like they finally dumped the Gumpdusky-style canned oldies and are trying something different. OK, it might have worked in the Wickenburg of 1955; I don't know about today.

Link: KBSZ 1250

Is it raining where the Lumberyard is? Do TMISU have a lock on programming train wrecks? And what the hell is Nova M radio anyway?
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No, apparently not, and I thought the "M" stood for "Mike" (Newcomb). Now that they ran him out of there, are they just "Nova?" ;D
 
BTW, next time you visit the lumberyard, a great collision repair guy there, an older New Zealander guy. He has a tiny sign with an arrow pointing to his "outback" shed.

He will do you well when you need to fix a ding or worse.

So, is the first Radio-Info happy hour gonna be along the banks of the canal, overlooking the lumberyard?

Is it raining where the lumberyard is?
 
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