A big thanks to “Doug” for writing in and sharing his memories of 1620 WJDI and sharing his off-air recordings of WJDI’s big Christmas Eve broadcast of 1996. Doug recorded two hours of the show in amazing clarity from his home in Shandaken, NY. Doug’s recordings capture the moments right up to the point when the pole transformer blew. The third recording ends with the sound of dead air after the incident. Please see the 1620 WJDI story to read more about this.
Doug recalls the following:
“The day I helped Dave and Jim with the cage antenna erection will never be forgotten.
Dave used spade lug crimps on each side of the disks on every wire……..lots of painstaking work.
The antenna was so heavy we had to use 2 ATVs’ to pull it up. ”
My thanks go out to Doug for the WJDI memories and cassette recordings that he digitized so they could be shared here:
WJDI CHRISTMAS EVE 1996 01.mp3
WJDI CHRISTMAS EVE 1996 02.mp3
WJDI CHRISTMAS EVE 1996 03.mp3