As you know, Bob Kinder was able to climb the WRAF tower today to troubleshoot the problem that we have been experiencing. Bob located damage to our WRAF antenna. We contacted the antenna manufacturer and will be receiving a quote on replacement parts. There is a possibility that, due to the age of the antenna, a new antenna would be a better solution.
Due to the damage that Bob found, it was necessary for us to reduce WRAF’s power to 20 percent. We will need to maintain the 20 percent power output until the antenna situation has been resolved. We certainly do not want to cause any additional damage that could cause us to go off-the-air completely.
At this point, we do not know how long we will be on the reduced power level. That depends on whether we are able to repair the current antenna, or if we purchase a new one.
I’ll keep you up to date as information develops.
Marty
Please keep the station management team in your prayers and we hope to be back to full-power shortly. Remember you can always listen on-line at Toccoa Falls Radio's website.
From Yahoo! News story by Associated Press reporter Rupa ShenoyCHICAGO – Paul Harvey, the news commentator and talk-radio pioneer whose staccato style made him one of the nation's most familiar voices, died Saturday in Arizona, according to ABC Radio Networks. He was 90.
Harvey died surrounded by family at a hospital in Phoenix, where he had a winter home, said Louis Adams, a spokesman for ABC Radio Networks, where Harvey worked for more than 50 years. No cause of death was immediately available.
Harvey had been forced off the air for several months in 2001 because of a virus that weakened a vocal cord. But he returned to work in Chicago and was still active as he passed his 90th birthday. His death comes less than a year after that of his wife and longtime producer, Lynne.
"My father and mother created from thin air what one day became radio and television news," Paul Harvey Jr. said in a statement. "So in the past year, an industry has lost its godparents and today millions have lost a friend."
Known for his resonant voice and trademark delivery of "The Rest of the Story," Harvey had been heard nationally since 1951, when he began his "News and Comment" for ABC Radio Networks.
