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 KUID-FM started out with the antenna on the TV building and
the studios in the adjacent office building dating back to the end of WWII.
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 Leon Lind was "jack of all trades", installing
the transmitter, adjusting the antenna, building the studios, as well as being station manager,
program director, and narrating the weekly Voice of the Vandals.
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transmitter was a 10 watt Gates unit which just covered the main campus and
downtown. |
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The control room had a Gates stereo audio
console before
anyone really knew what stereo was. There is an Emergency Broadcast Network
receiver in the right hand rack which listened to a Spokane radio station for
national emergency announcements. One of the turntables was a for the play back
of 16 1/2rpm transcriptions. Network programming came by US mail on big 16
inch disks which held 30 minutes of programming. |
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Mr. Lind did the Voice of the Vandals from this announcers
both. It was taped and duplicated manually on 4 Ampex tape decks. Then individually
mailed to radio stations around the state. |
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Shortly after Mr. Johnson joined the staff as Chief Engineer
he rebuilt a vintage Western Electric 1000 watt FM vacuum tube transmitter and
received FCC approval to put it on the air.
In 1965 it was moved to the Paradise Ridge TV transmitter
building where it was installed along side the RCA 10,000 watt TV transmitter.
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 The original 2 ring FM transmit antenna was mounted on the
side of the TV tower. This expanded the coverage from just the U of I campus,
out to the greater Palouse Empire.
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Close up view of the FM antenna rings on the side of the TV
tower.
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