PICTURES !!

[Michaeljwyo]

I drove out to the KTBN site the other day and wished I had taken my digital camera with me. Meanwhile since then, my boss here knows "skinny" johnny Mitchell quite well. Skinny works there. He's there all day long and invited me to stop in any time. So I could get some interior pics and bs about radio any time I want, just haven't made it down there yet. Will do so soon and remember to take the digital camera with me.
Speaking of pics......we've got a dumb proxy server thingy running here and I can't get to the main www.utahradionews.com site....all I get is a "oops! site not found" message. Same with Saltlakeradio.com. So if there's a "pics" page, is there any way you could post an alternate name, or an alternate name or I.P. address for the main site? Also on that note, got some old servers that my ISP pretty much "gave" me to do whatever I want with. LOTS of disk space and a permanent (T-1) internet connection. So if you want me to host the site for the pics, I can do that. We're talking a GIGABYTE of disk space for use, versus DSPete's only 5MB. Just post a link with the I.P address of my server here and voila! We can make it FTP or just a web site or both. Should be able to handle it. I'm already running an FTP site on it for AM Stereo air checks (visit ftp.amstereoradio.com and have fun and hear what AM Stereo sounds like!). Let me know if you need the help. This is all free at no cost to anyone. The only cost would be the $10 if you wanted to register a domain for it (like utradiopics.com or something like that). Otherwise, we can just do it via a forward to an I.P. address.
Like I said, let me know and then we may REALLY be able to have fun and not have to worry about disk space.

Michael n WYO

[Kev]

Where is the KTBN site located?

[Christopher John]

Yeah I do part time work over there at KTBN, Skinny is the station manager, He is hardly ever there. lol. As for where it is located, it is in Kearns at 6475w. 5400s.

[Kev]

Is the tower located there?

[Christopher John]

yup, both of them

[Doh]

So Skinny Johnny's still there! When I visited in 1995 he was there boy he really enjoys showing you around in there, although I guess one would get lonely out there, not much to do but watch the TV feed of TBN in the studio, one o' these days I need to send in my pics of KTBN.

[Christopher John]

It does get boring out there sometimes, all we have to do is play the legal ids and take transmitter readings ever hour, and oh yeah, change the frequency twice a day

[x]

We're wandering a little. Apologies.

Why is it that shortwave stations have to change frequencies? The only thing that I could think of is that there are weird time share agreements. I would think any problems like that would have been sorted out ages ago, so I'm not sure.

[Christopher John]

I was told by the engineer at the station, that it has something to do with the time of day and the atmosophere.. IDK

[Doh]

You have what is called the "D" layer in the atmosphere which disappears in the night which is why we can hear AM stations from other cities at night the same princible applies to SW the higher frequencies lets say from 13 megs and above "skip" better during the day when the "D" layer is present, if I'm not mistaken this is because the higher frequencies pass through the "D" layer as opposed to the lower frequencies which do not, by the same token the higher frequencies become inaffective at night.....I think I'm makeing sense here

[Christopher John]

sounds good to me

[x]

Ah. Ok. I got it. Didn't consider that the "shortwave band" (for lack of a better term) would stretch over areas with that much of a different propagation effect.

[Doh]

Sun spots and sun storms greatly affect the shorwave band as well

[Friend Lee]

kc7....

Great pic of the KVOG W.E. You must have a better camera than I did! How much room do think was between the wall and the front of those transmitters? Two feet....and not an inch more?

I love to see the old photos, keep them coming! I still think we all ought to get together sometime this summer for a radio BBQ. Any takers? Or are our wives & girlfriends worried what'll happen if we all get together in the same place at the same time??!!

Friend Lee

[Doh]

I took that picture when I worked there in 1993 and yes two feet no more, it was a small tranmitter roon and quite hot too!! I don't know about many of the rest of you but I'd like to see a site for just pictures, maybe when the utahradionews domain expires in september if DSPete let's it go we might need to start one!!!!!!!!!! ;D