So, who's running the show during baseball games at 1080 The Fan...and football games at the Oregon Ducks Network? The janitor?

Today I switched over to KXL to catch the halftime coverage of the Ducks' obliteration of Michigan, and heard dead air, long stretches of bumper music, more dead air, then not-meant-for-air billboards of spots ("Providence thirty, sequence HQH 395)." Then some advisories for affiliates ("OK, affiliates, we know the first break didn't run, so we'll do a network break now and then your first local break will be coming right up. Hope that isn't confusing").

That's amateur radio, folks. Need Appalachian State to show you how to do a network?

Then I'm listening to 1080's postgame coverage from KOMO of the Mariner's latest ignominious blowout, trying to listen to the manager's soliloquy of shrugs, when 1080 interrupts with a series of 10-second station ID's...four of them, one after the other. Happened AGAIN two minutes later. Somebody left a pot in Program, apparently. Where's 1080 getting its weekend board ops? The Ducks network?

Finally: KPAM is finally coming to grips with its nighttime signal erectile disfunction by posting instructions on its web site for putting up your own antenna...

http://www.kpam.com/includes/news_items/news_items_more.php?section_id=11&id=190

Good idea. KPAM's best programming comes in the middle of the night, when Parker's on. I'll be on my roof stretching wire, so I can hear Tom.

I want that classic broadcast magazine they've got posted! Great Cover! Looks like interesting reading. Love looking at that kind of stuff. Wonder if it's from The Bob Miller or Tom Parker Collections.

They're trying to increase nighttime power? That one sneaked up on me!

Yo, Craig. "Radio Broadcast" (1922-30) is in the Multco library catalog; they apparently have all but the first six months.

A couple dozen articles are reprinted at Barry's site: http://www.google.com/search?&q=+site%3Aearlyradiohistory.us+radio%2Bbroadcast%2 Bmagazine

"They're trying to increase nighttime power? That one sneaked up on me!"

Ahh jeez.

My folks' place is somewhat nearby the KPAM/KVAN transmitter site (my place is somewhat close to 205.) 'Twould be rather interesting to find out what this does to the phone lines after dark!

Remember what it was like when KVAN decided to crank its power way up a few years ago?

Meanwhile, about a month or so ago I rode up to the KVAN transmitter site on 43rd, Yacht Boy 400 riding along on the handlebars, and listened for a while. Sure was nice to be able to hear Music Of Your Life crystal clear without this horrendously loud buzzing noise blaring in the background. (It appears someone in the apartment complex, likely in a unit near mine, has something making somewhat-wideband noise on AM. I can hear it very clearly from around 1300 on up to about 2000 in shortwave using various radios. It almost trashes 1550 at times.)

im having some difficulties hearing knrks hd.