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Author Topic: A sad state of an AM Station? IŽd say... RW rip & Youtube VID.  (Read 675 times)

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Huh... For a Graveyard FREQ AM station, not too bad in contour coverage, since some of our Graveyards here are lucky to have 10 mile coverage in the Summer, crappy, soil conductivity, months. THANK YOU Boomer for the FWR link. 
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A sad state of an AM Station? IŽd say... RW rip & Youtube VID.
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2026, 1622 UTC »
Thank you for sharing this!

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Re: A sad state of an AM Station? IŽd say... RW rip & Youtube VID.
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2026, 0300 UTC »
Can hardly watch the video with horrible go-pro stretched video. Why on earth do people film like that? Anyway, I hardly can be surprised. Cairo, IL is perhaps the most infamous decaying "city" in the country. I find the place fascinating though for its history and the general decaying look to the place.
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