rs.miller@pro-harvest.cts.com (Randy Miller) (09/22/89)
Mr. Townsend, I hate to be a nitpicker, but WVOA (at least last time I was home) is NOT in Red Lion, PA. You're thinking of WINB (World in Need of the Bible), which is owned by the same company (Red Lion Broadcasting) that owns WGCB. My home is less than a mile from their studios and transmitters. WINB is a shortwave broadcast station, their transmitters and studios are located in an old chicken coop! Almost everything in that station, and their sister stations (WGCB-AM,WGCB-FM and WGCB-TV 49) were build (and I talking transmitters, control boards, limiter circuitry) by one of the neighbors back home. The chief engineer at one time was another neighbor. Needless to say, when the younger members of this family-owned outlet took over, everything went to pot (so to speak). Incidentally GCB stands for God and Country Broadcasting. Last time I was home (my mother and brothers still live there), they were still up to their nefarious tricks, the most offensive being that they never kept on their assigned frequency. For example, I normally listen to WITF-FM in Harrisburg, which is the local Public Radio outlet, when I'm back there. It was not uncommon for WGCB-FM, which operates at 96.1mHz to bleed over on to WITF-FM's frequency, which is at 89.5 mHz. Repeated calls to management there, and to the FCC were NEVER to any avail. I won't go into the character of the current owners and their management, but maintainence on that station's equipment is next to non-existant (and this was told to me by the neighbor who used to be the chief engineer). Randy Miller rs.miller@pro-harvest obsolete!pro-harvest!rs.miller [Moderator's Note: I think WVOA is out of Bethel, NC. I never listen to them anymore -- haven't for years. KVOA is on the west coast. I thought WINB was 'World International Broadcasters'. But if the World Is In Need of Anything, it would be a good RF filter on some of those high powered guys who slide all over the band. Some of them do act like they think CB (and all its bad habits) stands for 'Commercial Broadcaster'. Thanks for writing. As mentioned earlier, we here at eecs were out of touch with reality from about 1:00 AM Saturday through mid-afternoon Sunday. The name server must have taken a dislike to the new 4.3 and suffered amnesia or something. The flood of Digests coming to you this evening is the weekend's traffic. If you are missing any between 396 and 403, please advise so they can be sent again. More Digests will be transmitted early Monday morning. PT]