http://airchexx.com/contributors/james-edwards/dr-bob-show-wawa-fm-milwaukee-1966 Where Classic Radio Lives Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:17:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://airchexx.com/contributors/james-edwards/dr-bob-show-wawa-fm-milwaukee-1966/comment-page-1#comment-17150 Johnny Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:21:07 +0000 http://airchexx.com/?p=1500#comment-17150 This clip is from the newly purchased WMKE-FM station studio in a partitioned carpet store at 5609 W, North Avenue in Milwaukee. This station was sold to Suburbanaire (WAWA) for $75,000, and the seller couldn't wait to get the cash! He was drowning in a sea of debt at the time. Low and behold if he would have hung on a few years longer, WMKE would have been worth easily 20 times more than the selling price. The station transmitted with a Standard Electronics 5 kW transmitter to a 6 bay antenna mounted on a 125 foot self-supporting tower constructed through the roof of the carpet store. I was one of the people who removed the tower in 1968 and the roof had to be re-done where the tower poked through. The station got out pretty well since the carpet store was located on a very high elevation point in Milwaukee. The echo in the aircheck is natural do to the high ceiling with concrete walls and no padding or acoustical tile. Console was an Altec-Lansing and microphone was an EV 636. This clip is from the newly purchased WMKE-FM station studio in a partitioned carpet store at 5609 W, North Avenue in Milwaukee. This station was sold to Suburbanaire (WAWA) for $75,000, and the seller couldn’t wait to get the cash! He was drowning in a sea of debt at the time. Low and behold if he would have hung on a few years longer, WMKE would have been worth easily 20 times more than the selling price. The station transmitted with a Standard Electronics 5 kW transmitter to a 6 bay antenna mounted on a 125 foot self-supporting tower constructed through the roof of the carpet store. I was one of the people who removed the tower in 1968 and the roof had to be re-done where the tower poked through. The station got out pretty well since the carpet store was located on a very high elevation point in Milwaukee. The echo in the aircheck is natural do to the high ceiling with concrete walls and no padding or acoustical tile. Console was an Altec-Lansing and microphone was an EV 636.

]]> http://airchexx.com/contributors/james-edwards/dr-bob-show-wawa-fm-milwaukee-1966/comment-page-1#comment-16919 Jimmy Conner Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:54:17 +0000 http://airchexx.com/?p=1500#comment-16919 Its "dr. Bop" Not "Dr. Bob" of 1590, WaWa! Its “dr. Bop” Not “Dr. Bob” of 1590, WaWa!

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