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[DX] FW: DX-ing and WRJQ, Appeton, WI, U.S.A.
Tervehdys,
Tässä taas yksi varsin persoonallinen vastaus jenkeistä. Me suomalaiset
dx-kuuntelijat emme näköjään ole ainoita, joiden henkinen tasapaino järkkyy
jatkuvasti lisääntyvien Sportstalk-asemien myötä.
73
Jim Solatie
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Stroebel
To: mika@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Jim Solatie
Sent: 27.2.2002 21:14
Subject: DX-ing and WRJQ 1570, Appeton, WI, U.S.A.
TO:
Mika Mäkeläinen
Keihästie 14 C
FI-o1280 Vantaa
Finland
mika@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mika@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Jim Solatie
Koivuviita 14 A 5
02130 Espoo
Finland
jim.solatie@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jim.solatie@xxxxxxxxxx>
"Hello" from America to my two good friends in the wonderful country of
Finland... THE TOP OF EUROPE!
How are you this fine Winter? Are you in a perpetual darkness in
your area during this time of the year or does that happen elsewhere in
the world? Congradulations to you both on Finland's fine showing at the
Winter Olympics at Salt Lake City, Ut. ending up tied for 6th place with
4 gold metals. The radio station that you both heard in faraway Finland
is now a Sports Talk station, sad to say. It changed hands on Jan. 22,
2002, went off the air on that day at 12:16 pm central standard time
here in the U. S. A., and then after it was moved out of the Valley Fair
Mall, where our studios were for many years, and moved into our former
competitor's large facility here in Appleton, it went back on the air
on Feb. 1, 2002 with the Fox Sports Radio Network 24 hours a day. The
new owner is Woodward Communications, owner of 5 stations in our
Appleton area market, plus other stations in Wisconsin and esewhere.
Our biggest competitor for high school play-by-play sports in Appleton
was WHBY, 1150 KHz, one of their stations for many years.
I don't want to bore you with way too much background information,
but here it goes anyway! I was born July 3, 1936 in the city of
Milwukee, Wisconsin and was brought up there, living in a Suburb called
Whitefish Bay since 1940. I graduated from the University of
Wisconsin-Eau Claire in 1961. I was in radio in a small way before I
graduated from High School in 1954. I changed my major in college from
Electrical Engineering to a Communications degree, which prolonged by
college years including semesters I was working in radio sales and
announcing. I got out of radio in 1963 to get into corporate
advertising at John Oster Mfg. (Milwaukee), The Cory Corporation
(Chicago), and Van Straaten Chemical Co. (also Chicago). When I left
Van Straaten, I decided I wanted to start a radio station. When I ran
into an old high school friend of mine who had the same ambition, we
decided to start a radio station together... but where?
Many years earlier, my mother (who of course was single at the time)
left her father's farm in Slovan, WI (a dot on the Wisconsin map about
25 miles from Green Bay, Wisconsin... home of the Green Bay Packers
football team) after she had graduated from High School to find her
fortune in the big city 125 miles (200 km) south of Slovan... Milwaukee.
That is where she met my dad, got married and raised their family of 5
boys. Slovan was an "unincorporated" town consisting of a tavern, a
church and a cheese factory, and was located in Kewaunee County, a rural
county with a total population of 29,000 people and a total of main
cities with populations of 3000 to 4000 people, but it was the only
county in Wisconsin that I knew of that did not have a radio station.
When my friend and new partner asked where we should build our new radio
station, I said, "Kewaunee!" And that's what we did.
I incorporated a business, I bought some farmland for studios and
tower, I designed the building, I bought the equiiptment (new), and I
installed all the equipment from scratch. We played Polka music and did
a lot of sports broadcasts and had a lot of fun. I told you I was going
to bore you folks! Well, anyway, thats enough for now... but that's how
I got into Radio.
Before I leave... "Mika, this is Jim. Jim, this is Mika." There!
That is your formal introduction or do you guys know each other already?
Remember my email address, too: pakalopaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:pakalopaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> . You can also use
pakalopaka@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:pakalopaka@xxxxxxxxxxx> or
pakalopaka@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:pakalopaka@xxxxxxxxx> as well. Nice
talking to you my friends. Hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely,
Bob
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