Very interesting, Dave, and thanks so much for sharing.

This may sound strange, but your comments about the usefulness of ham radio 
knowledge in forming and managing the station sounds like a great topic for 
a QST article someday.

Now, another question:

What stations did you work for in New York and Northern New Jersey?

I ask this because I lived in that area in the mid 1970's for a while as I 
was pursuing my Masters Degree in Sociology from Rutgers University. 
Besides, I grew up in Pennsylvania, and lived on the east coast until we 
moved out to Michigan for my first college teaching job in 1985.

Again, very interesting!

73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Marthouse" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: Using Victor Stream While Traveling


> Hi Tom,
>
> Brookneal is 24 miles south of Lynchburg.  We are located 166 miles from 
> DC
> in south central Virginia.
>
> My associate and I have owned WODI since 1996.  We pride ourselves in the
> fact that we haven't abandoned the methods of doing local radio as it was
> done before the big consolidations in the industry.  We are a stand alone 
> am
> running 1 kw 24/7.  WODI does such things as local remote broadcasts, and
> other events in the community.
>
> You may be interested to know that the facility's automation system,
> production studios, and transmitter remote control are fully accessible 
> with
> speech output.  I do all the it in addition to being the gm and chief cook
> and bottle washer.
>
> We bought the station back in 1996 when it was off the air and put it back
> on air.  Both my associate Tony DeNicola WA2IHZ and I N2AAM are amateurs
> along with our chief engineer Harry NJ2Y.  The background in amateur radio
> really helped.  With our knowledge gained from ham radio we didn't have to
> bring in outside contractors to do the engineering so that was a big plus
> when we were rebuilding the station.
>
> Before I got into station ownership I worked for a few radio stations in 
> the
> New York metro area of northern New Jersey.  In addition we do a bit of
> broadcast consulting now and then.
>
> Feel free to give a listen to our audio stream.
> You can put the url below into the media player of your choice.  As long 
> as
> it can play mp3 files it should work.
>
> http://grace.fast-serv.com:9200
>
> Enjoy the oldies.  We play around 1600 songs in our music rotation. 
> That's
> at least 4 times the amount played at other oldies stations.
>
>
> Dave N2AAM
>