… KYNO Sounds Great! …
As the Assistant Engineer, anytime technical adjustments were to be made in the wee hours of the morning resulting in shutting down the transmitter, PD John Lee Walker or Assistant PD Ted Brown utilized my previous air experience to fill the “graveyard” shift. I was going to be there anyway (an economy move, no doubt).
Chief Engineer Andy Pavao and I were going to install a new AM Optimod to replace the Gregg Labs processor and clean out the Harris MW-5 transmitter. The work was scheduled for 1:00 a.m. on August 30, 1981. I was blessed with 12 midnight till shut down.
I hadn’t pulled a board shift since the summer of 1978 and you can hear the “rust” at the beginning. Unbeknownst to me, my wife rolled the cassette machine at home using our wide band McKay Dymek AM receiver. I was unaware that this tape existed until 2003 when she gave it to me.