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Author Topic: NPR audio article on WFAT from 1978  (Read 3884 times)

Offline redhat

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NPR audio article on WFAT from 1978
« on: December 21, 2018, 0613 UTC »
Not sure where came from orignally, but I was cleaning out the data closet and found this.  When radio was....

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jqtfkGmKks8l8GC6ZX_KPCdaW8YRWYWX

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Re: NPR audio article on WFAT from 1978
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2019, 1205 UTC »
Andy Yoder did a nice article on the guys who ran that station, along with a couple of others, in his Hobby Broadcasting magazine about 1999. Interviews of the ops, the whole nine yards.

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Re: NPR audio article on WFAT from 1978
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2019, 2125 UTC »
Thanks for posting, nice listen.
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