[BC] Frequency Measuring

[DHultsman5@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/24/2007 7:12:10 PM Central Daylight Time,  
wbzq1300 at verizon.net writes:

gRAdy  Moates wrote:

>    I remember Claude measuring WJHO,  Opelika, AL, 1 kW on 1400, 
> changed to WANI in 1997.  The call  letters were for the station's 
> founder, John Herbert Orr, co-founder  of Ampex and founder of 
> Orr-tronics and make of Irish recording  tape.  I'm sad to see that the 
> call letters have changed.  



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FYI  FROM BIRMINGHAM, AL
 
Gentlemen,  Claude Gray is still alive and kicking.  I last saw  him at a 
Birmingham Hamfest Flea market.  About five years ago I ran into  him at the 
Birmingham Zoo.  He was operating the steam engine of the Zoo  Railroad there.  He 
actually had a license to operate a steam engine.   The Zoo has since 
replaced the steam engine with a gasoline model and he  declined the engineers job.   
The steam train was moved to the Heart  of Dixie Railroad Club with lots of 
track in Calera, AL.  They were having  alot of trouble getting it timed 
correctly.  Claude came in and tuned it  right up.
 
Here in the Birmingham he had all the stations set up on  weekly  frequency 
measurements.  WHen I first got here we had AM and FM cards  everywhere but no 
one was correlating them to the frequency monitor or the  logs.  I guess if 
you got a weekly measurment you might be able to get  around the logging 
requirement, but I didn't want to try.  We called and  asked if we could get a 
monthly only measurment, he said NO the metro Birmingham  area was set up for weekly 
measurments.  Later on after we stereoed the FM  I wanted him to make 19 kHz. 
and 67 kHz. FM checks in addition to the regalar FM  and AM measurments. He 
said that that wasn't necessary and he wasn't set up  to do it.  I bought an 
FCC Type Approved frequency counter and we made  our own measurments from then 
on.  We still got cards from him after we  cancelled the service for about 3 
months.
 
He also was a big believer in uni-pole antennas.
 
Dave Hultsman



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